well probably if you come check out.. Jazz in the Gardens See Serena Williams will be there, because Common is going to be Performing. Uh Huh why we bringing Serena all up in this… well we know y’all wanna sop up them bisquits with some sizzurp, and well Common, Co’mon.. Lawd have ...

Update:  Erykah Badu named her Tweeted baby Mars Merkaba, not Twitty Milk.  I had a few sources that reported that horrible TM name and believed it.  I think I’ve been reading this Hollywood crap too long because the Twitty Milk name seemed totally plausible.  Sigh.  Moving on…...

Erykah Badu welcomed her third child into the world yesterday.  Her daughter joins Erykah’s other two, also fathered by rappers children, Puma and Seven.  Badu and the new baby’s daddy, rapper Jay Electronica, Twittered (Tweeted?) along the way with updates such as, “Morning, I&#...

Fleet Foxes Fleet Foxes Jag kan fan inte odla ett respektabelt skägg. Det är deprimerande och känns… omanligt. - Peterok Glasvegas Glasvegas Att “falla� för en hype är en synd, men här är det helt klart befogat. Jag förstår verkligen de som inte gillar skivan - det är bredbent och ep...

Jag har sällan haft sÃ¥ svÃ¥rt att välja ut Ã¥rets lÃ¥t som 2008, sÃ¥ när jag pekade ut Gnarls Barkleys Who’s Gonna Save My Soul var det lite uppgivet (och albumet var verkligen trist). Hade jag tänkt tanken ett varv till borde jag ha valt Ice Cube Gangsta Rap Made Me Do It. 2008 hade änd...

As 2008 recedes in our collective rearview mirror, the headlines trumpeting bad news are still there: record sales are lousier than ever, the economy sucks, record executives are still trying to flog the Pussycat Dolls. But there are still reasons to be excited by what's to come in the probably cont...

As Idolator vets may remember, my mother has been a hardcore R&B fanatic through every format change, from the days of worn Philly International vinyl to the CD-Rs of mod urban radio hits that she now forces me to provide like a soul-slinging street dealer. At heart she's a classicist, but she's als...

Svante Lodén och hans Damn! lyckades äntligen få klart sin tredje skiva (de två livealbumen med Timbuktu oräknade). En hyllningskväll till den store lille mästaren Prince och så klart en turné med Timbuk har också klarats av under hösten. I början av nästa år får vi äntligen se Damn!...

Aretha Franklin, Wynton Marsalis, Erykah Badu, Spoon, Sharon Jones, Mavis Staples, and Etta James are but a few of the artists slated to play the 40th-anniversary edition of the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival, which takes place over the weekends of April 24-26 and April 30-May 3. (This festiva...

Here are my favorite albums of 2008. Leave your favorites in the comments if you'd like, we'd love to see them. Make sure to check David's list at the bottom of the post. Thanks for reading the blog this year, guys. *************************** 20. Diplo & Santogold | Top Ranking There were a han...