December 22, 2020 0 The 2020 Playa Please Awards: The Worst Celebrity News of the Worst Year You know, I’m not typically one of those guys who goes into the new year all NEW YEAR, NEW START. But [...]
October 16, 2020 6 What Happened to R&B? 4 Reasons It Failed and How We Can Revive It Here at Soul In Stereo, y’all know I’ve spent more than a decade covering both hip-hop and R&B. As [...]
June 10, 2020 0 The Grammys Swap ‘Urban Contemporary’ for ‘Progressive R&B’ – But Is This A Good Thing? If there’s been one consistent theme in 2020, it’s been that of change. Some change for the [...]
February 13, 2020 0 How Otis Redding put Macon, Ga., on America’s musical map If Otis Redding is one of the architects of soul, consider Macon, Ga., as the bedrock of R&B. A few weeks [...]
December 23, 2019 1 The 2019 Playa Please Awards: The Worst Celebrity News of the Year 2019, you were a special kind of trash. Every year, we wrap up the previous 12 months with the annual Playa [...]
June 24, 2019 3 20 Questions: 2019 BET Awards Recap What if they threw an awards show and no one cared? Seriously, award show nights are like Twitter family [...]
February 13, 2019 1 Drake’s So Far Gone: A 10-Year Retrospective Words by Alex Goodwin Ten years ago on this date, February 13, 2009 I was a curious seventh-grader trying to [...]
February 11, 2019 1 20 Questions: 2019 Grammys Review Anyone excited for this year’s Grammys? This year promised at least a little spicy controversy – [...]
December 24, 2018 3 The Playa Please Awards: The Worst Moments of 2018 2018 was some piece of work, huh? But before you put this stressful year in your rear view, I’m here to [...]
November 26, 2018 2 How Could You Be So Heartless? How Kanye West’s 808s & Heartbreak Wrecked R&B/Soul Last weekend, Twitter celebrated the 10-year anniversary of Kanye West’s landmark 808s & Heartbreak [...]