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Cazz Blase listens to Laura Mvula's debut album, Sing to the Moon, and finds there is much more to her wider output than the upbeat single 'Green Garden' would suggest Birmingham singer/songwriter Laura Mvula has a degree in composition from the Birmingham Conservatoire, learned the music composition app GarageBand while working as a supply teacher ... (more)

There are few rising R&B stars as stylishly ambitious - and consistently satisfying - as Janelle Monae .

First lady of Neo-Soul and fellow raconteur Erykah Badu conducted an all-too-compelling Q&A with 25-year old Kendrick Lamar.

Performers for this summer's 26th annual Twilight Concert Series were announced Wednesday by the Salt Lake City Arts Council.

Janelle Monae just released the video to a single off her upcoming album, Electric Lady.

She grew up listening to '70s soul and '80s hip-hop, but Erykah Badu drew more comparisons to Billie Holiday upon her breakout in 1997, after the release of her first album, Baduizm.

Bonobo Erykah Badu aka DJ Low Down Loretta Brown El Ten Eleven Friday, May 3, 2013 The Warfield Electronic dance music, when paired with live instrumentation, can have disastrous results: a tenor sax player, wearing Tevas, soloing endlessly over a pre-programmed keyboard pattern; a live drummer struggling to stay in sync with looped beats; a ... (more)

Late last month, we heard the first taste of Janelle MonA e's second album - The Electric Lady , due out this fall - and it was hardly your standard hype-building fare.

A description of Janelle Monae would include mentioning four different genres, an assortment of characters and her statuesque beauty.

Last night at Brooklyn Museum in Prospect Heights, the elusive Erykah Badu spoke in detail about her career for roughly an hour as part of an event hosted by Red Bull Music Academy.

The return of Erykah Badu on Janelle Monae 's new song, " Q.U.E.E.N. ", reminded us of a genre that hasn't seen much love in the past few years: Neo Soul.

Juliette Farrell is a neo soul/Nu Jazz singer/songwriter from Birmingham United Kingdom, Juliette has been compared to Neo soul greats such as Jill Scott and Erykah Badu.

The best of the downbeat electronic albums reviewed here is the brainchild of British knob- twiddler Simon Green.

On April 22 American R&B and soul musician Janelle Monae debuted her new single "Q.U.E.E.N." featuring Erykah Badu on Atlantic Records' SoundCloud page .

You are a flawless queen, and this photog ban only serves to highlight a mortal - of which we know you most certainly are not - insecurity.

Janelle MonA e's busy three years since her her masterful astral-R&B debut The ArchAndroid have raised plenty of reasons to worry she might fall off.

ESSENCE festival headliner, Janelle Monae dropped the first single off her highly anticipated album, The Electric Lady , entitled "Q.U.E.E.N." The funky melody featuring neo-soul diva Erykah Badu boasts a jazzy 80s feel, as the two croon of embracing their quirks and getting down in celebration of what makes them different.