June is right around the corner and so is Black Music Month, our favorite month to celebrate here at On The Groove Line. To honor the contributions of Black musicians and music industry professionals, we will present our “Black Music Month 30” podcast series on our YouTube channel. Called #BMM30…
There will be no Soul Train Awards or Hip-Hop Awards on BET for the foreseeable future. BET CEO Scott Mills confirmed that the network is suspending both awards shows, citing a need to “reimagine the format.” The suspension of the Soul Train and Hip-Hop Awards come at a fragile time…
If Mariah Carey’s 16th album title is any indication, her legions of fans will be screaming said title all fall long. Carey, the Long Island-born songbird with more accolades than any of us can count, announced this week that Here For It All is available for pre-order and will officially…
Add one more thing Clipse won’t have to worry about sorting out this week; album sales. Let God Sort ‘Em Out, the first full-length project from Virginia Beach brothers Gene “Malice” Thornton and Terrance “Pusha T” Thornton since 2009’s ‘Til The Casket Drops, is projected to sell 90,000 units in…
By Chris Stevens Ari Lennox is one of today’s favorite R&B artists, but it seemed she was out of place or constantly lost in the shuffle on J. Cole’s Dreamville Records imprint. No longer is that the case as Ari celebrated the release of a new single “Soft Girl Era”…
I admittedly was about half a year late to the Big K.R.I.T party. I watched people on my Twitter feed keep going back and forth virtually yelling “LEMME TELL YA BOUT DIS COUNTRY SHIT!” and wondering just what the hell they were talking about. It’s the fall of 2010. Little…
The early 1980s were a tough time for Black musicians as R&B/Funk bands were caught up in the anti-disco avalanche that killed the genre in the late 1970s. Ever the innovators, Black musicians and producers embraced modern technology, which took away from bands and session players of various instruments, but…
One of the more exciting developments for this music fan is this new era of jazz and jazz-influenced artists/musicians putting a modern spin one of the more elite genres in music. Thundercat of course stands out among the pack of this new wave of artists, but one talented young musician…