Raphael Saadiq will be spending one special night in 21 cities across the U.S. later this year on the No Bandwidth: One Man, One Night, Three Decades of Hits Tour. “I’ve always wanted to do a one-man show,” the musician said in a statement. “I want to challenge myself. My …
Read More »D'Wayne Wiggins, Co-Founder of Tony! Toni! Toné!, Dead at 64
D’Wayne Wiggins, the singer, guitarist, and co-founder of Tony! Toni! Toné!, died Friday, March 7. He was 64. Wiggins’ family confirmed his death in a statement, saying he died Friday morning “surrounded by friends and loved ones.” They said, for the past year, Wiggins had been “privately and courageously battling …
Read More »Raphael Saadiq Plots Career-Spanning One-Man Show
R&B legend Raphael Saadiq, who most recently was a key collaborator on Beyoncé‘s Grammy-winning Cowboy Carter, will take the stage alone this spring for three concerts covering his lengthy career. The mini-tour, titled No Bandwidth: One Man, One Night, Three Decades of Hits, will draw from his work with Tony! …
Read More »Tony! Toni! Toné! Won't Reunite Again — And Six More Things We Learned From Raphael Saadiq
When the original lineup of the legendary R&B band Tony! Toni! Toné! reunited for a tour last year, co-founder and key creative force Raphael Saadiq had high hopes of recording what would have been the band’s first new album since 1996. But now that the tour is over, Saadiq says …
Read More »D'Angelo Is Hard at Work on the Follow-Up to 2014's 'Black Messiah'
“I do want to put a lot of music out there,” D’Angelo told Rolling Stone in 2015, shortly after the release of his acclaimed, long-delayed third album, Black Messiah. “I feel like, in a lot of respects, that I’m just getting started.” He still has yet to release a follow-up, …
Read More »Brent Faiyaz Believes We Are Living In a 'Wasteland.' He Makes It Sound Damn Good
“I would like to apologize in advance for the person I’m gonna become once this album drops,” reads a billboard in New York’s Times Square. Plastered at the bottom is the single word Wasteland —the title to Brent Fayiaz’s long-awaited new album. If you think the statement on the billboard …
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