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Nippy is 60: Whitney Houston’s Greatest Live Performances

August 9, 2023

Featured·Music·Playlists·Retrospectives·Whitney Houston

Whitney Elizabeth Houston lived a life that was akin to a Greek tragedy. The world watched her reach dizzying heights and stunning lows. In admiration, the public saw Whitney Houston morph from a church girl from Newark, N.J. into an otherworldly Pop deity beloved by massive throngs of fans and peers alike. That audience soon balked at the slightest indication

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“#Beautiful,” Mariah Carey’s Summer Hit That Got Away

With a musical catalog as expansive as Mariah Carey’s, casual listeners will surely come across a multitude of hits they’ll know by heart. But in the mix of the singer’s bag of chart-toppers, holiday classics, deep cuts, and remixes, there are also a handful of underrated singles that missed the

Mariah Carey, Master of “Bringin’ On the Heartbreak”

For over three decades, Mariah Carey has cranked out record-breaking number-one hits

No Pretender: Mariah Carey’s “Dreamlover” Proved Her Passion for Hip-Hop and House

After silencing doubters and naysayers with her 1992 “MTV Unplugged” show and

Aretha Franklin’s Love All The Hurt Away

August 20, 2021

Aretha Franklin·Featured·In Depth·Music·Retrospectives

By 1981, Aretha Franklin was finding her musical footing again. The 70’s had started strong for Aretha, producing some of the most significant work of her career, but they ended dismally. After departing Atlantic Records for Clive Davis’ Arista Records at the turn of the decade, Aretha opted for a

Maxwell’s blackSUMMERS’night (2016) – Retrospective

July 1, 2021

Featured·Music·Retrospectives

In 2009, Maxwell made a triumphant and long-awaited return to music with BLACKsummers’night, his first album in 8 years. The melancholic lead single “Pretty Wings” soared, proving that Maxwell just gets better with time. To the delight of fans, he announced that BLACKsummers’night was the first installment in a trilogy

What You See Is What You Sweat: Aretha Franklin’s New Jack Swing and A Miss

June 25, 2021

Aretha Franklin·Featured·Music·Retrospectives

What You See Is What You Sweat isn’t at the forefront of the Aretha Franklin canon. In fact, the 1991 album helps bring up the rear, and there’s been very little written on it since its release. It’s just not a solid representation of the tenacity of Aretha Franklin musically

Celebrating Aretha Franklin’s Aretha Live At Fillmore West

May 19, 2021

Aretha Franklin·Featured·Retrospectives

“She was afraid she didn’t belong there,” Aretha Franklin’s producer Jerry Wexler told David Ritz in Respect: The Life of Aretha Franklin. That was Aretha’s mentality about staging a show in the heart of the hippie revolution: San Francisco’s Haight-Ashbury district. For all her hesitance, Aretha Franklin was sitting on

Revisiting Aretha: A Woman Falling Out Of Love 10 Years Later

May 3, 2021

Aretha Franklin·Featured·In Depth·Retrospectives

I woke up at the crack of dawn on May 3, 2011. I drove from my West Philly apartment down to South Philly’s Wal Mart and basically opened the place up. It took about 20 minutes for a staff member to retrieve a copy from the back because they weren’t

The Hero That 2020 Needed: Mariah Carey

December 11, 2020

Featured·Mariah Carey·Music·Retrospectives

To say that the year 2020 has been a disaster would be an understatement. We’ve been living through a pandemic, fighting for our lives, our jobs, our safety, and our sanity. Though no one thing could fully distract us enough from the horrors of the time, it’s vital to cling

Mariah Carey’s “Fantasy” is Still Just as Sweet

September 12, 2020

Mariah Carey·Music·Retrospectives

The year was 1995. Mariah Carey was only five years into her career, soaring off the success of her blockbuster selling album, Music Box (1993), and her very first holiday album, Merry Christmas (1994) – which would later go on to become the best-selling Christmas album of all time. Within

Teenage Dream: Celebrating Katy Perry’s Pop Confection

August 24, 2020

Music·Retrospectives

August 24, 2010 Rewind back to summer 2010 when Katy Perry was back with a new album, Teenage Dream, and once again on top of the charts ruling the world with another smash summer anthem “California Gurls.” Fitting to help rep the West Coast, Snoop Dogg joined Perry’s response to 2009’s

Miss Thang: Monica’s hit-filled debut

July 20, 2020

Artists·For the Nostalgia·Music·Retrospectives

JULY 18, 1995 When Monica released her debut album in 1995, she was the last of the Teen R&B star trinity to release music. Both Aaliyah and Brandy had come out with their albums, Age Ain’t Nothing But a Number and Brandy respectively, in 1994. Monica was introduced to the

The Gift: Beyoncé’s most underrated body of work

July 19, 2020

Artists·Beyoncé·Featured·In Depth·Music·Retrospectives

JULY 19, 2019 Beyoncé has recorded an extensive body of work over the course of her twenty plus year career in the music industry. She has sold millions of albums, singles, and concert tickets. She’s starred in blockbuster films, and created her own documentaries. However, if we’re speaking strictly about

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Nippy is 60: Whitney Houston’s Greatest Live Performances

“#Beautiful,” Mariah Carey’s Summer Hit That Got Away

Mariah Carey, Master of “Bringin’ On the Heartbreak”

No Pretender: Mariah Carey’s “Dreamlover” Proved Her Passion for Hip-Hop and House

Aretha Franklin’s Love All The Hurt Away

Maxwell’s blackSUMMERS’night (2016) – Retrospective

What You See Is What You Sweat: Aretha Franklin’s New Jack Swing and A Miss

Celebrating Aretha Franklin’s Aretha Live At Fillmore West

Revisiting Aretha: A Woman Falling Out Of Love 10 Years Later

The Hero That 2020 Needed: Mariah Carey

Mariah Carey’s “Fantasy” is Still Just as Sweet

Teenage Dream: Celebrating Katy Perry’s Pop Confection

Miss Thang: Monica’s hit-filled debut

The Gift: Beyoncé’s most underrated body of work

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