R&B Touring in 2025: A Quiet Pulse Beneath the Stage Lights
There’s a hush, not absence, but a soft undercurrent. The R&B tour circuit in 2025 hums differently than it did passing through the pandemic five years ago. The roar of full arenas
The Business of R&B: How Streaming Shapes Today’s Soul
There’s a song playing. Not loudly, but constantly in bedrooms, cars, midnight headphones. It’s soft enough to miss, but it lingers. A voice half-whispered, a drum loop barely touched, a harmony layered
Softness Ain’t Free: Daniel Caesar Sings for What Love Costs
There is a different kind of heaviness to Daniel Caesar’s voice that doesn’t always announce itself in pitch. It lingers. Even when his lyrics dance with irony or attempt to coat longing
Tori Kelly and Lucky Daye Deliver an R&B Lullaby with a Grown-Folks Title: “Make a Baby”
Tori Kelly has always had the kind of voice that could cut through marble. Raw but refined. Gospel-slick, pop-polished, R&B-bred. Lucky Daye, on the other hand, floats like incense, sultry, hypnotic, and
SZA Named Artistic Director at Vans, Launches New Chapter in Fashion and Freedom
SZA’s creative evolution continues, this time in a pair of Knu Skools. The Grammy-winning artist and cultural tastemaker has officially been named Artistic Director for Vans in a multi-year creative partnership that
Bryant Barnes Finds Healing in the Hurt on Debut Album Solace
With features from d4vd and a soul-baring tracklist, the 22-year-old alt-R&B phenom delivers a coming-of-age statement draped in raw vulnerability.
Nija’s “Back Outside” Is a Soft Launch Into Total Detachment
You don’t always have to torch the bridge. Sometimes, you just let the other person walk off it themselves. That’s the core energy behind Nija’s new single Back Outside, a midtempo, shoulder-shrug
September’s Flower of the Month: Aster
In the language of flowers, the aster whispers of patience, elegance, and quiet resilience, qualities that echo through the songs we hold close. Just like an R&B track that doesn’t chase the charts but still stays on repeat, asters bloom when most flowers fade. They remind us that beauty doesn’t have to shout, and that late bloomers still bloom. In RnBgarden, the aster is our September muse; soft, steady, and sure of its own magic.
