Louis Jordan, New York, N.Y. July 1946

R’n’B

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Rhythm and blues, often abbreviated as R’n’B, is a genre of popular music that originated in African-American communities in the 1940s. The term was originally used by record companies to describe recordings marketed predominantly to urban African Americans, at a time when “urbane, rocking, jazz-based music with a heavy, insistent beat” was becoming more popular. In the commercial rhythm and blues music typical of the 1950s through the 1970s, the bands usually consisted of piano, one or two guitars, bass, drums, one or more saxophones, and sometimes background vocalists. R’n’B lyrical themes often encapsulate the African-American experience of pain and the quest for freedom and joy, as well as triumphs and failures in terms of relationships, economics, and aspirations.

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Cardiff, in Wales, has an all-female five-piece set to take the world by storm. Comprised of Cara, Estelle, Monique, Ruth and…

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From the same incubator that brought you the likes of SOHN who made quite a splash with his…

Gotye – Someone I Used To Know (DCUP edit)

Got a spicy little number in my inbox today! It’s Gotye and Kimbra’s “Someone I Used To Know,” but with a Dcup twist. Not sure what's funkier—the tune or my dancing skills when nobody's watching. Either way, it's a jam that might just make you reminisce about your ex!