Source: BG048/Bauer-Griffin / Getty Where is the prevailing subversive music in the Trump era? Is the scarcity merely a reflection of U.S. imperial collapse being met with the wider disgruntled masses’ inaction?  The Trump administration has confronted a record number of protests, but the music of this moment is generally not reflective of the ire […]

✕ If every musical note in New Orleans were history, then Sweet Lorraine’s Jazz Club could be the city’s master historian. For more than five decades, this intimate music house has welcomed locals and travelers alike, offering traditional Creole dishes and some of the best jazz, blues, and R&B the city has to offer. It’s not just […]

Source: Roger Kisby / Getty I entered July thinking I’d spend the rest of summer listening to Clipse’s phenomenal Let God Sort Em Out and contemplating giving up my career to try my hand at cooking a brick in the air fryer. So imagine my surprise last week when Tyler, The Creator announced not only […]

Getty Images for ESSENCE Tamar Braxton has always been one to use her voice for good — good music, that is! — and now she’s getting even louder with a new partnership alongside Gilead Sciences that will aim to promote HIV prevention like PrEP specifically to Black women. The big news was revealed this past […]

Source: Taylor Hill / Getty Let the Church say “Yugh!” Friday, July 11, marks the drop of Let God Sort Em Out, the long-awaited new album from Clipse, our favorite brotherly rap duo from Virginia Beach (757 REPRESENT!) and the undisputed pen-wielding philosophers of powdery prosperity. To be clear, this is not just some album […]