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Erykah Badu is upping the stakes in the merch game with her own range of weed rolling cones. The "That Badu" cones come hand rolled with natural rose petals from locally grown roses in the Dominican Republic and are being launched to coincide with Mother's Day this weekend.

Lionel Richie divided fans with his performance at the Coronation concert last week, with some quick to point out how his voice sounded different to usual.Taking place at Windsor Castle on Sunday (May 7), the pop and soul icon took to the stage to play in front of the newly-crowned King Charles III and Queen Camilla — performing two of his fan favourites ‘Easy Like Sunday Morning’ and ‘All Night Long’.The singer, now aged 73, was supported by a full orchestra, and performed to other members of the royal family, as well as a 20,000 strong crowd in honour of the coronation. However, viewers at home were eager to highlight how his voice sounded unusual, with some branding it as being “completely different” to their expectations.“Is someone disguised as Lionel Richie because that is not his voice! Sounds completely different,” wrote one viewer.

Linda Lewis — who has worked with artists including David Bowie, Cat Stevens and Rod Stewart — has died, aged 72.The singer had spent more than four decades within the industry, working with some of the most famous names in music. She also had a prominent solo career throughout the 1970s, which featured a number of Top 40 hits.Her death was announced by her sibling, Dee Lewis Clay, on social media today (May 4).In the update, Clay confirmed the “heartbreaking” news of Lewis’s passing, and described her as a ‘beloved beautiful sister”.

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Frank Ocean’s divisive Coachella headline set after sharing a multi-cam fan edit of the performance.Ocean headlined the closing night of the first weekend of Coachella Festival earlier this month. It was his first live gig since 2017 but the reaction to Ocean’s performance from fans was mixed, with the show starting late and getting abruptly cut short.

A previously unseen collection of Amy Winehouse’s previously unpublished journals, handwritten lyrics, and personal photos will be published this summer. The late singer's parents, Mitch and Janis, provide the foreword to In Her Words, which will be published by HarperCollins on August 29.

On Monday (April 17), speculation around what might have gone wrong at Frank Ocean's Coachella set started flooding social media. Twitter account Festive Owl, who's been a source of festival news for the past decade, tweeted about a scrapped ice rink performance, where many skaters were unexpectedly cut from the set. A day prior, a photo of ice machines backstage furthered the claims.

Voice Notes by Yazmin Lacey plays like you're skipping stations on an old radio set. Jazz, neo-soul, dub, and electronic sounds filter across the airwaves while London-born Lacey acts like the DJ, following you from song to song with stories shared like an old friend over dinner. It is an album that catches me off guard every time I return to it as a new favorite song emerges.

Facebook page of the Otis Redding Foundation – the family’s charity in Macon. She also added: “Please keep our family in your prayers at this time and please respect our privacy as we consume this huge loss.”Otis Redding III and his brother, Dexter, along with a cousin, Mark Lockett, formed the funk band The Reddings in the 1980s, who went on to record six albums.

In an era of smooth, stream-friendly music that often slips into the background Konyikeh stands out instantly. Her voice, rich and velvety yet textured enough to make her songs ache on a deep level, is something of a behemoth. On debut single "Sorrow," which is premiering below, Konyikeh sings from the position of inexperience.

Erykah Badu has announced the dates for her "Unfollow Me" tour with direct support from Black Star member Yasiin Bey f.k.a. Mos Def.

Erykah Badu wants you to unfollow her.Well, sort of — let us explain.The neo-soul singer just announced her huge summer arena ‘Unfollow Me Tour’ from June through July with special guest Yasiin Bey aka Mos Def joining her on all dates.Along the way, Badu will bring her mega hits like “On and On,” “Didn’t Cha Know” and “Next Lifetime” to New York City’s Madison Square Garden on July 8 and Newark’s Prudential Center on July 11.And if you want tickets to see the four-time Grammy winner live this summer on the ‘Unfollow Me Tour,’ you can pick them up as early as today.Although inventory isn’t available on Ticketmaster until Thursday, April 20, fans who want to ensure they have tickets ahead of time can purchase on sites like Vivid Seats before tickets are officially on sale.Vivid Seats is a secondary market ticketing platform, and prices may be higher or lower than face value, depending on demand.They have a 100% buyer guarantee that states your transaction will be safe and secure and will be delivered before the event.A complete calendar including all upcoming Erykah Badu tour dates, venues and links to buy tickets can be found below.Badu 52, last toured in 2021-22 taking the ‘Live From Badubotron Tour’ all over North America.That tour, her first since 2010, was where she debuted tracks from her 2015 mixtape ‘But You Caint Use My Phone’In the intervening years, she has lent her voice to a few songs with artists like D’Angelo, Teyana Taylor and Bilal.You can find her complete catalog of songs dating back to her debut album “Baduizm” here.In her Instagram tour announcement, Badu shared that she’d be bringing along Yasiin Bey (formerly Mos Def) as well as other “extraordinary guests.”While we’re not sure who the other

The Righteous Brothers nearly 60 years ago, can still be heard live by the group in 2023.The Righteous Brothers, comprised of 82-year-old original member Bill Medley along with Bobby Hatfield’s replacement Bucky Heard, have 32 huge concerts in 2023 from April through October.That includes gigs in North Tonawanda, NY’s Riviera Theater on May 4, Englewood, NJ’s Bergen Performing Arts Center on May 17, Chester, NY’s Sugar Loaf Performing Arts Center on May 18, Red Bank, NJ’s Hackensack Meridian Health Theatre on Aug. 17 and Atlantic City’s Golden Nugget on Aug.

Sly Stone, the famously elusive former frontman of the legendary funk band Sly and the Family Stone, has announced his first memoir, Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin). Co-written with Ben Greenman, who’s worked with George Clinton and Brian Wilson (among others) on their own autobiographies, it’s scheduled to arrive October 17 in the U.S.

Daryl Hall is set to perform at the 2023 BST Hyde Park festival later this summer, as a special guest headliner Billy Joel.The Hall & Oates singer will join the singer-songwriter onstage for his live appearance at the London Festival, which is set to take place on July 7. Tickets are available now.As previously announced, BLACKPINK will make their UK festival debut headlining their own day at British Summer Time, as well as Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band playing two nights, alongside headline appearances from Guns N’ Roses, Take That and P!nk, supported by Gwen Stefani.Alongside his guest appearance with Joel, Hall is also set to perform at a newly-announced headline show in London.

“Candy Girl,” was none other than the Material Girl.“Madonna actually opened up for New Edition at Roseland Ballroom in New York City,” Ronnie DeVoe told The Post.“For her to open up for us and [then] see her take off worldwide and just knowing that we were right there at the beginning — it was a special time in our lives,” bandmate Ricky Bell added.Four decades after New Edition’s 1983 debut album, also titled “Candy Girl,” was released — the same month as Madonna’s self-titled debut, to be exact — the guy group is still packing arenas on their Legacy Tour that hits Prudential Center in Newark, NJ this Sunday. (The Black Promoters Collective-backed tour returns to the area at Long Island’s UBS Arena on Apr.

Stereophonics‘ Kelly Jones, have announced their debut album and unveiled their latest single, ‘Take It Through The Night’.The self-titled release sees the Stereophonics frontman continue his collaboration with Patty Lynn and Dwight Baker from The Wind And The Wave. Set to be released on June 16, the project follows the band’s debut single ‘Let’s Turn This Back Around’ which was released earlier this year.‘Take It Through The Night’ is a blues-inspired track, that sees the three-piece channel iconic ’70s bands Led Zeppelin and Fleetwood Mac.“Patty wrote the whole ‘Take It Through The Night’ lyric herself,” said Jones.

March 15, 2023In his later years, Caldwell became known for his interactions with fans on Twitter who couldn’t believe he was white rather than Black. In fact, his record label, TK Records, had mad a deliberate effort to hide his race, using a photograph of his silhouette on his first album cover to make his music more marketable to a largely Black audience.Caldwell’s final album, ‘Cool Uncle’, was released in 2015.

Elvis director Baz Lurhmann has unveiled the deluxe edition of the movie’s soundtrack, which features a raft of previously unreleased recordings from Austin Butler.“The whole Elvis music team has answered the call from fans with this new Deluxe Edition of the Elvis soundtrack,” said Luhrmann in a statement.“Featuring everything from previously unreleased recordings by Austin Butler to contemporary takes on Elvis’s classics and a fresh mash-up with the Backstreet Boys, the Deluxe album reveals all the complex layers of Austin’s performance, Elvis’s music and those who continue his legacy.”The deluxe edition – which is now available across music streaming platforms – boasts 52 songs in total, 15 more than the standard edition.The previously unreleased recordings by Butler include ‘Blue Suede Shoes’, ‘Heartbreak Hotel’, ‘Crawfish’ (which was recorded live on set), and ‘Are You Lonesome Tonight?’.Additional contemporary takes on Elvis’ songs inlcude G-Dragon‘s cover of ‘Can’t Help Falling In Love’, and Kacey Musgraves‘ version of the same song with Mark Robson.You can view listen to the deluxe edition below.Austin Butler’s performance as Elvis Presley has earned him a Best Actor nomination at this year’s Oscars.

Chaka Khan has apologised for hitting out at Rolling Stone’s ‘200 Best Singers Of All Time’ list, saying that she is committed to “empowering all artists”.The US funk and soul singer was ranked at number 29 on the viral list which was published on January 1, 2023.Topped by Aretha Franklin, the likes of Whitney Houston, Sam Cooke, Billie Holiday and Mariah Carey round out the Top Five.Khan, however, responded by calling the magazine editors “blind bitches”.“They need hearing aids,” she said on on Andrew Goldman’s ‘Originals’ podcast. “These must be the children of Helen Keller!”The ‘I Feel For You’ singer also criticised the artists who ranked above her, including Carey.

At the start of this year Rolling Stone ran a list of The 200 Greatest Singers of All Time. Like all good list-making, it contained some undeniable truths (Aretha Franklin topped the poll) and some provocative decisions to get the people going. Celine Dion fans, for example, were so outraged by her not making the list in any capacity that they protested outside the publication's offices.

performing at last year’s Super Bowl halftime show souped up her already legendary career to new heights.“It was a straight peak,” Blige — rocking a green and white Versace catsuit — told The Post at Jay-Z’s 40/40 Club in Manhattan. “The Super Bowl just took me to another level, you know, where people that I never thought would be looking at me are watching me.

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Back in 2016, Anderson .Paak teamed up with Knxwledge for a duo called NxWorries and delivered Yes Lawd!, a project of velvet-trimmed neo-soul rap that really helped take the edge off the first months of the Trump presidency. Since then, .Paak has become a huge pop star with Silk Sonic, his Bruno Mars soul-pop duo that won a bunch of Grammys recently, so news on the NxWorries front has been fairly slim (save for a linkup on Knxweldge’s 2020 tape 1988 called “itkanbe[sonice].”) The drought ends today, with a new track from NxWorries called “Where I Go” featuring the venerable H.E.R.

"Evergreen" from Omar Apollo's 2022 project has become the biggest hit of the young singer-songwriter's career so far. A snippet of the tattered-and-torn break-up ballad has soundtracked millions of videos on TikTok and landed "Evergreen" a spot on the Billboard Hot 100 (it's peaked at No.

Steve Lacy has secured his first Number One single on the Billboard Hot 100 with ‘Bad Habit’.The Internet guitarist released the hit single, which features on his second solo album ‘Gemini Rights’,  at the end of June and it debuted in the top 100 in July.‘Bad Habits’ spent four weeks at Number Two behind Harry Styles’ ‘As It Was’ before knocking it off the top spot yesterday (October 3).Celebrating the achievement on Instagram, Lacy wrote: “damn i ain’t even have to change fr. we #1 babyyyyy.

Erykah Badu has announced a pair of shows at London’s Royal Festival Hall to celebrate 25 years of her debut album ‘Baduizm’.The US singer-songwriter will perform at the Southbank Centre hall on Saturday, November 5 and Sunday, November 6. Tickets go on general sale this Thursday (September 29) at 10am BST here.Badu’s two shows are her only UK dates scheduled for the remainder of the year.

Four years ago, after Aretha Franklin passed away at 76, reporter Jen Dize submitted a Freedom of Information Act request to unseal the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s file on the late soul queen. The contents of the 270-page file were finally published late morning in a report by Dize on her investigative journalism substack, Courage News. (Dize had posted what she felt were the most relevant documents hours earlier in a Twitter thread.) They detail a complicated relationship between the Bureau and the legendary singer that found them acting as her harasser, protector, and legal advocate at different points in her life.

Dionne Warwick has said that she’s confused by Yung Gravy‘s choice of stage name.The legendary soul singer, who kicks off a US and UK tour later this month, took to her Twitter account recently to ask about the rapper’s (real name Matt Hauri) moniker.“Young Gravy? Like the food??????” she asked her followers. Later, she wrote: “I have just learned that it is ‘Yung’ and not ‘Young’.

As the summer comedown hits and the sedate chill of autumn begins, it's the perfect season for some progressive soul music, and Ari Lennox is here to deliver. On Thursday night, the Washington singer-songwriter shared a surprise five-track EP called Away Message, out via Dreamville/Interscope.