Tuesday, July 31, 2018

New Music: Miguel - Python


Grammy Award-winning R&B star Miguel has shared his new song called, “Python”.


Next month the singer will be headlining The Ascension Tour in support of his latest album War & Leisure along with special guest dvsn.


Miguel also stopped by the Triple J studios to perform a cover of Hot Chili Peppers’ 1999 song “Porcelain”.


Just recently Miguel shared the music video for “R.A.N.”, a song from the Superfly Original Motion Picture Soundtrack.

Saturday, July 28, 2018

Queen Naija Releases Self-titled Debut EP

 
Detroit-based R&B singer/YouTube personality Queen Naija delivers her self-titled debut EP via Capitol Records.
 
The 5-track project features her Billboard breakout hit, “Medicine” and follow-up smash, “Karma” which pushed her to Billboard’s Emerging No. 1 Artist.
 
 
Queen Naija recruited No ID (Jay-Z, Kanye West) for the track, “Bad Boy”.


Friday, July 27, 2018

New Video: Faith Evans & Stevie J. - A Minute


Bad Boy’s First Lady of R&B, Faith Evans who just tied the knot with longtime producer Stevie J. have unveiled their latest collaborative visual, “A Minute”, which is the lead single from their upcoming duet project. The video finds the happily married couple’s bedroom intimacy and showing their love for one another.


Last week, Faith Evans performed in London at Indigo O2 and will be honored at this year’s Black Music Honors Awards on August 16th in Nashville.

Thursday, July 26, 2018

New Music: Jazz of Dru Hill - All Your Love


Jazz who is one-fourth of the multi-platinum selling R&B group Dru Hill has delivered his latest solo offering, "All Your Love". While he has recorded solo material in the past, this smooth groove is definitely his best work so far.


"All Your Love" is the lead single from Jazz's forthcoming solo EP via Incisive Entertainment.

In Dru Hill news, the guys will be performing at the Prudential Center for R&B Live in New Jersey on September 30th with RBRM (Ronnie, Bobby, Ricky, Mike), Tamia, Brandy, Stokley & 702. Tickets can be purchased HERE!

New Music: Shawn Stockman of Boyz II Men - Feelin Lil Som’n


Shawn Stockman of the Legendary Grammy Award-winning group Boyz II Men has released his new solo single, “Feelin Lil Som’n” from his first-ever upcoming solo project via SRG Records.


On the song, Stockman adds:
“It’s a head bobber while drinking a nice full bodied Bordeaux. A smooth, thoughtful love song and the perfect introduction for what I hope people will want to dive a bit deeper into with me.”

For his first solo album Shawn will draw inspiration from his past as well as contemporary songs and performers across many genres.

“Feelin Lil Som’n” will be available Friday, July 27 on Apple Music, Spotify and all digital platforms.

Tuesday, July 24, 2018

The 2018 Black Music Honors: Bobby Brown, Faith Evans, BeBe & CeCe Winans and Dallas Austin to be Recognized


The third annual Black Music Honors which will be held in Nashville, TN and hosted by Comedian, Television and Radio Personality Rickey Smiley and Singer, Actress LeToya Luckett honors artists and musicians who have influenced and made significant contributions to American music.

The annual two-hour special honorees this year includes Bobby Brown, who will receive the R&B Soul Music Icon Award, BeBe & CeCe Winans, who will be co-honored the Gospel Music Icon Award, Dallas Austin, who will be presented with the Music Innovator Icon Award and Bad Boy’s First Lady of R&B Faith Evans, who will be receiving the Urban Music Icon Award.

“The vision of the Black Music Honors is to recognize the trailblazers in African American music who have paved the way for the artists of today. Many of these artists have never received their much-deserved recognition,” said Don Jackson, founder and CEO of Central City Productions.

The show is set to air on broadcast syndication on Sept. 8 - 30, 2018.

Ticket proceeds will benefit the 2019 opening of the National Museum of African American Music (NMAAM) in Nashville. NMAAM’s mission is to educate the world, preserve the legacy, and celebrate the central role African Americans play in creating the American soundtrack.

Tickets are available for purchase

New Music: Tamia - Today I Do


In celebration of Tamia’s 19th wedding anniversary to former NBA player Grant Hill, the R&B powerhouse has unveiled the second single/video “Today I Do” from her upcoming seventh studio album, Passion Like Fire, that’s slated for September 7th.


“Today I Do” follows after Tamia’s top 5 Billboard Urban Radio hit, “Leave It Smokin” which peaked at No. 3

Also look out for the Passion Like Fire tour coming to a city near you!


Monday, July 23, 2018

New Music: Riff - When You Love


Smooth and Harmonious quintet R&B group Riff best known for their outstanding performance of “Fair Eastside” in the 1989 hit film Lean On Me and subsequent Billboard hits, “My Heart Is Failing Me” and “If You’re Serious”, returns with their latest single, “When You Love”.


The New Jersey-based group will be performing in their home state @ Union County Performing Arts Center on September 21. Visit  UP CLOSE & PERSONAL 2 for more details.

Sunday, July 22, 2018

RnBJunkieOfficial Presents… Keith Sweat’s Top 10 Best Songs


In honor of Keith Sweat’s birthday today, @RnBJunkieOfficial has compiled his top 10 songs in the latest edition of Top 10 Best Songs spanning over his 30 year career which includes 12 albums. The list includes released singles, non-singles and honorable mention feature. Here’s Keith Sweat’s Top 10 Best Songs:

10 GOOD LOVE
From the Album: Dress to Impress

This smooth standout jam comes courtesy of Sweat’s most recent album that includes the classic Keith Sweat sound that music listeners love from the Legendary artist himself.

09 JUST ONE OF THEM THANGS FEAT. GERALD LEVERT
From the Album: I’ll Give All My Love to You

One of the standout album cuts between Sweat and Levert from Sweat’s sophomore album.

08 MAKE IT LAST FOREVER FEAT. JACCI MCGHEE
From the Album: Make It Last Forever

This dynamic duet is often described as one of Sweat’s signature and finest duets in his repertoire which features powerhouse vocalist Jacci McGhee. Over the years the song has been covered by Mariah Carey & Joe, Kenny Lattimore & Chante Moore.

07 SOMETHING JUST AIN’T RIGHT
From the Album: Make It Last Forever

Released as the second single from Sweat’s debut album, the song further ushered in the new jack swing sound.

06 NOBODY FEAT. ATHENA CAGE
From the Album: Keith Sweat

This song peaked at No. 3 on the Billboard Hot 100’s Chart, No. 1 on the R&B Chart and features Kut Klose’s lead singer Athena Cage.

05 I’LL GIVE ALL MY LOVE TO YOU
From the Album: I’ll Give All My Love to You

This standout heartfelt ballad was released as the third single from Sweat’s sophomore album.

04 MY BODY (LSG)
From the Album: Levert.Sweat.Gill

Sweat teamed up with fellow R&B heavyweights Gerald Levert & Johnny Gill in 1997 for their first-ever collaborative project. Sonically, the song marked a significant change musically for the guys up to that point.

03 MAKE YOU SWEAT
From the Album: I’ll Give All My Love to You

One of Sweat’s standout groovy uptempo singles released from his sophomore effort.

02 TWISTED
From the Album: Keith Sweat

Often described as Sweat’s signature song. This Platinum-selling features vocal assistance from his protege female R&B group Kut Klose.

01 I WANT HER
From the Album: Make It Last Forever

The song that introduced Keith Sweat to music prominence and described as essentially setting the foundation for the New Jack Swing sound. Produced by Teddy Riley, this Gold-selling single became a top 5 hit on the Billboard Hot 100’s and topped the R&B chart.

HONORABLE MENTION:

“Right and a Wrong Way”
“How Deep Is Your Love”
“Get Up On It” featuring Kut Klose
“Make You Say Ooh”
“Don’t Stop Your Love”
“Test Drive” featuring Joe
“Merry Go Round”
“Full Time Lover”

Saturday, July 21, 2018

Teyana Taylor & Jeremih Announce “Later That Night” Joint Tour


R&B artist Teyana Taylor took to social media to announce her upcoming joint tour “Later That Night” with Jeremih, in support of her recently released album, K.T.S.E.

The 24 date tour kicks off on August 3rd in Tampa, Florida, and hitting other major markets in the US: Atlanta, Philadelphia, Washington, D.C., New York,
Chicago, Dallas, Los Angeles as well as Toronto.


New Music: Jody Watley & SRL – ‘The Passion’

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Grammy-Award winning singer, songwriter and trendsetter Jody Watley along with her group SRL (formerly Shalamar Reloaded) has released their latest inspiring summertime groove, “The Passion”, about love coming around when you’ve been down and out.
 
 
‘The Passion’ follows after SRL’s International hit, “The Mood” from their forthcoming album Bridges.
 
Earlier in the year Jody Watley contributed a smooth remake of the Bob Marley classic, “Waiting In Vain” that topped the Jazz charts.


Friday, July 20, 2018

New Music: Mario - ‘Drowning’




R&B Vet Mario Barrett has returned with his new single, ‘Drowning’, the lead single from his upcoming album Dancing Shadows due in the Fall of the year.
WATCH THE VIDEO BELOW:


Dancing Shadows will be Mario’s first album as an independent artist since leaving RCA Records in 2015 and forming his own label New Citizen.

Thursday, July 19, 2018

New Music: VanJess - ‘Control Me’



Increasing the anticipation for their debut album tomorrow, Silk Canvas, VanJess has released another single "Control Me" off of the project. "Control Me" a sultry bop, exposes another side of the sisters. Jess's deep voice perfectly compliments Ivana's sweet tone to make this track perfectly feel good.



The visuals to compliment the track will be released this month and it stars dancer Nicholas “Slick” Stewart—who just graced the cover of Jay-Z and Beyonce’s Everything Is Love cover art.

Their first single “Addicted” has all the makings of a summer anthem. Within a few months, it has already eclipsed 1.1 million Spotify streams and counting.

Stay tuned for the video’s premiere and more soon!

Wednesday, July 18, 2018

New Music: Ciara 'Level Up'


After the 2015 release of her sixth studio album Jackie, Grammy-Award Winning singer and songwriter Ciara is officially back on the music scene with her latest single 'Level Up'. Fans have been waiting for new music since she announced last year she signed with Warner Bros. Records. We can always count on CiCi to give us an upbeat summer dance anthem! You can download or stream Ciara's new single 'Level Up' here. Check out the video below! 


"Okay, remember what I told you. Be your own boss, love yourself, get up and dance. Level Up!" 


Sunday, July 15, 2018

An Interview with Glenn Jones


After more than 30 years in the music industry, Grammy-nominated R&B vocalist Glenn Jones is still one of the most sought after live performers today with Top 40 Billboard hits including his signature songs, “We’ve Only Just Begun (The Romance Is Not Over)”, “Here I Go Again”, “Show Me” to name a few. Glenn Jones returns with his latest single “Love By Design” a duet with R&B songstress Regina Belle for his upcoming album of the same name. I caught up with Glenn to discuss new music, his career and career highlights and much more…


HEAR “LOVE BY DESIGN” WITH REGINA BELLE BELOW:



TERRANCE: Your new single, “Love By Design” which features Regina Belle is out now. Give me some background on the song and how it came together.


GLENN JONES: “Love By Design” is a song that was written by a friend of mine, his name is James Day. He’s a great writer and has been in the business for quite a while. He sent me this song and I loved it and I immediately thought of Regina Belle and I called her. I’ve known Regina for many years and I worked with her brother Bernard Belle who used to work with Teddy Riley. I sent the song to her and she loved it and so we met, had lunch and talked and we decided to do the song together. We booked some studio time, cut it and it just happened. I love Regina’s performance on it for her tone and the scatting in a jazzy kind of way that she sings through the melodies in the song. It’s a great track, so I’m excited about it and it is the first single release from the album that’s also titled Love By Design. It will be ready in the next few weeks and you can go to any of the digital music sites to download it like Amazon, CDBaby, iTunes, Spotify or any of those places and see for yourself.


TERRANCE: What made you go with Love By Design for the project’s title?


GLENN JONES: Well, down through my career most of my music has been of that content. It’s always been about love. Love between a man and a woman. Love for higher power. Love for humanity period and that’s what I like singing about. I like being in a positive mode and that’s always been easy for me to write about too. I made the transition from Gospel to R&B years ago when I met Norman Connors, so that’s always been my forte and I’ve been consistent with that and that’s what you will hear when you buy the new Glenn Jones CD entitled, Love By Design.


TERRANCE: Are there any other guest features on the album we can look forward to?


GLENN JONES: Another friend of mine Kim Waters is on there, we did a song called, “All In My Heart”. Nick Colionne is featured on another song and he’s a great jazz guitarist. My wife is singing a duet with me and her name is Genobia Jeter-Jones. Dave Hollister is singing background vocals on another one of the songs. I got my niece Y’Anna Crawley who was the 2009 Sunday’s Best winner on there croonin’ and killin’, so it’s just a great collaboration.


TERRANCE: Did you approach this album any differently than you have previous efforts?


GLENN JONES: Well, probably so because with this album I’m spending my own money (laughs). I just approached this from the point of view that I’m doing the kind of record I wanted to do. There’s nobody telling me what kind of project I should have. It’s taken a year and a half or more to finish it, but I’m just happy with the way it came out.


TERRANCE: Reflecting back, what circumstances led you to get your first major record deal with RCA?


GLENN JONES: Well, like I said I had been singing Gospel before that. I had a record deal with a record company called Savoy Records and I did two albums for them and Norman Connors heard my second album and he was getting ready to do another project and he had this song called, “Melancholy Fire” that he needed a male vocalist to do. He heard my Gospel music and loved what he heard and so I flew to D.C. to meet with him and talk about the project and next thing I knew I was on a flight going to LA to do the record with him and once I did that I started touring. “Melancholy Fire” finally came out as the second single from his Take It to the Limit album and when it came out, it hit the charts and started moving up the charts and so next thing I know I had a couple offers and RCA threw an offer at me and I decided to go with them and that’s how it started.


TERRANCE: The industry has changed a great deal since your inception. What’s your take on it at the moment?


GLENN JONES: I mean, there are positives and negatives. The positive side is that artists get to really be free creatively. On the negative side, you have to find ways and different resources to market the music to try to get a shot and bring some visibility to it.


TERRANCE: Thus far what’s been the biggest highlight of your career?


GLENN JONES: There are moments that I’ve enjoyed just admiring certain people that I never thought I would get a chance to work with, so probably when I worked with Dionne Warwick and Aretha Franklin. I did a song with Dionne called “Finder of Lost Loves” which Burt Bacharach and his wife Carole Bayer Sager wrote and that was the first song Dionne had done with Burt I think about in 11 years. They both wanted me to do the song. I was living in New York and they called my manager and asked if we could have a meeting and so next thing I know I’m on 57th Street going up to the Penthouse. Dionne was there and she was so nice and sweet and that was a great moment. We got a chance to perform the song on The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson. The song was the theme song for a TV show on ABC called Finder of Lost Loves. Then I started doing some things with Aretha. She started off by bringing me into Detroit with my band to perform for her birthday parties. She always had these big, extravagant birthday parties. From Lou Rawls to Nancy Wilson to whoever you could think of would be there, so I started doing that and I started doing shows with her and performing songs and duets with her. We played Radio City, we did Caesars Palace and I did a Grammys Legend show that paid tribute to her, Johnny Cash, Billy Joel and a bunch of other legendary artists. So those were the moments, it’s been good and I have no complaints.


TERRANCE: Talk about the excitement around your upcoming Love By Design tour and what we can expect.


GLENN JONES: Well, we’re getting geared up for that because it is an independent project, so there are a lot of avenues as you grow, at least for me because I’ve always been on a label and really just putting the marketing plan together for the record so we can be able to tour. We want to go out and tour behind a successful record, so we want to get some nice dates and ride it out.


TERRANCE: Anything else you would like to add?


GLENN JONES: I would just like to encourage everyone to go to the digital music sites and download the new single “Love By Design” by Glenn Jones & Regina Belle and look out for the new album in the next few weeks which is titled Love By Design. I have an Unsung program that’s going to be airing soon. I just want people to know that we’re still doing it so when you hear us coming your way, come out to the show and encourage a friend to come to the show.