The Korean pop outsider Effie and the Brooklyn indie-rock band Geese top our critics’ lists this year.
Category: Rhythm and Blues (Music)
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Best Songs of 2025
Listen to 48 tracks that broke new artists, blew apart genres and revived beloved sounds.
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Dijon, a Studio Maestro, Is Stepping Into the Spotlight
Onstage in Brooklyn, the buzzy producer and musician blasted his songs apart and stitched them back together again.
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Summer Walker, R&B’s Maestro of the Funny Side of Heartbreak
On “Finally Over It,” the singer and songwriter rolls her eyes and brings in like-minded cynics for tracks that recall the soulful sounds of the ’90s.
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Kendrick Lamar, Lady Gaga and Bad Bunny Lead 2026 Grammy Nominees
Sabrina Carpenter, Leon Thomas, Doechii and Tyler, the Creator will compete in the biggest categories at the awards show in February.
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Grammy Nominations 2026: See the Full List of Nominees
Artists, albums and songs competing for trophies at the 68th annual ceremony were announced on Friday. The show will take place on Feb. 1, 2026 at Crypto.com Arena in Los Angeles.
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Anthony Jackson, Master of the Electric Bass, Is Dead at 73
Besides his work with pop stars and jazz greats, he is credited with helping to invent the six-string contrabass guitar.
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Erykah Badu Says Making Music Is a Sport. It’s Game Time.
The singer and songwriter on her reign as one of music’s most idiosyncratic and spiritual figures and where her creative impulses are headed next.
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Remembering D’Angelo, a Classicist Who Moved Us Forward
On Popcast, a conversation about the casual virtuosity of D’Angelo’s too-brief career with a pair of journalists who each interviewed him twice.
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Sudan Archives’ Music Comes From Her Own Universe. All Are Welcome.
On her new album, “The BPM,” the songwriter, fiddler and rapper pumps up the beat and crafts a timely narrative about humans and machines.
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D’Angelo’s Pleasure Principle
The singer and songwriter’s art of elegant seduction never required him to raise his voice, or lose his desperation, humor or awareness.
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How D’Angelo Made His Masterpiece, ‘Voodoo’
The singer, songwriter and producer’s 2000 album was the result of years in the studio listening to inspiring music, jamming and rediscovering his artistic purpose.