Muhsinah Changes Name to safia, Trades Experimental Soul for Pop
Fret not, Muhsinah fans. The D.C.-born Howard University graduate has not gone into witness protection. Instead, the versatile singer/songwriter has taken it back to basics and repackaged herself as...
View ArticleReviewed: Authenticity by The Foreign Exchange
Gentlemen, raise your hands if you've been here: You meet "the one," that woman who you just know is the best thing you've ever encountered. Then, you embark on what promises to be an astonishing love...
View ArticleDon’t Expect Midgets or Tightrope Walkers at Tomorrow’s Foreign Exchange Show
By now, you probably know the story of The Foreign Exchange—Phonte Coleman and Nicolay Rook met on the message boards at Okayplayer and began trading files over the Web. The result was Connected,...
View ArticleArtists Remember Chuck Brown, “The People’s Champ”
There's a YouTube clip from a few years ago in which Philadelphia songstress Jill Scott appears to be completely overcome by admiration. She's in the middle of her set at the Summer Spirit Festival at...
View ArticleHow the Trio of KING Wrote Its Warm, Soulful Debut Album
My first slow dance as a married man was to "Hey," a magnificent love song by KING, the Los Angeles-based trio of Anita Bias and twin sisters Paris and Amber Strother. After the reception, people...
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