R and B News Archives

The 11th Voodoo Experience kicks off in City Park with headliners Eminem, Justice and Ween.

A portion of ticket sales from the R&B show featuring Keri Hilson and Sean Paul at Wachovia Arena will benefit the American Lung Association, show promoters have announced.

R&B superstar Rihanna debuted a new single -- and sexy image -- on Ryan Seacrest 's nationally syndicated radio show Tuesday, marking her return to the charts with an edgy single and nearly nude cover shot just six months after ex-boyfriend Chris Brown physically abused her.

WHEN is an erotic film festival not an erotic film festival? According to the Australian Sex Party, when it is in held in NSW.

Yeesh. What is going on with new Rihanna's new single? "Russian Roulette," written and produced by R&B smoothy Ne-Yo, starts with some wanky lead guitar lines before settling into a dirge-like tempo over which the Bahamian diva sings about suicidal gunplay as a metaphor for, uh, what exactly? "He says close your eyes / sometimes it helps." The song ...

Popstar Rihanna's new song, "Russian Roulette" got released online earlier today on her website.

Chris Brown can't top the charts -- and there's no way he's topping Rihanna on this.

Weekly Music News: The week of November 23 is shaping out to be a week fit for the battle of the divas as Rihanna , Britney Spears , Lady Gaga and Mary J. Blige are all scheduled to release albums.

Reckitt Benckiser plc, a global leader in household, health and personal care products including Calgon, Lysol, and Woolite, has reduced its total carbon dioxide emissions by 5.75 percent per unit dose, or 1.5 million tons, in one year, ahead of its carbon reduction target to cut CO2 emissions 20 percent by 2020.

OWLS HEAD : Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Museum: Live . While it is great to honor the musicians who helped make our lives better with their music, the fact is the reason to watch the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Museum induction ceremonies is to watch the performances.

Beyonce has picked up three nods as the nominations for the 37th annual American Music Awards have been announced.

The "ladies only" tour is a magnificent idea for singers with a certain disposition - smooth seducers toting roses and Drambuie into the battleground we call l'amour , crooning about the before, during, and after of making love.

This contest was a learning experience for us here at the RN&R. We learned all about the difficult logistics and tedious minutia of putting a contest like this together, but we also learned a lot about the diversity of local songwriting talent.

GUNTUR: A divisional engineer of the R& Buildings Department, Krishna Reddy, who was returning from the work site on the Krishna Flood Bank at Nagarjuna Sagar was killed in a road accident near Macherla on Wednesday.

Rihanna hinted on Twitter that her new album could be dropping in the coming months, teasing in her first post on the social networking site that "the wait is ova" on Nov.

Today is Sunday, Oct. 11, the 284th day of 2009. There are 81 days left in the year.Today's Highlight in History:On Oct.

On Saturday evening October 24 at 8:00 p.m., Juan Alderete, Thomas Pridgen and Omar Rodriguez-Lopez of The Mars Volta will perform at a concert at Hollywood's Key Club which will include a presentation of Bass Player magazine's Lifetime Achievement Awards to jazz legend Charlie Haden and R&B legend Rocco Prestia.

She's already proved she can pull off a power ballady duet , a midtempo R&B track and a crashing great slab of soft rock , but now Jordin Sparks is trying something completely different.

With the sale of WAMO, there definitely has been a void when it comes to having a station that plays the R&B hits that everyone loves, but the void is no longer.

R OCK & ROLL fought a pitched battle for Terry Disley's musical soul, but the pianist ended up forsaking the fast life to pursue his passion for jazz.

R. Kelly don't even read really. Don't take our word for it though. Just ask R. Kelly: "I don't even read really." See? "I don't even read really and I'm not afraid to say that," Kelly said.

In an age when Broadway shows like Chicago and Sweeney Todd are making the move to Hollywood, when Glee is one of the highest-rated shows on television and High School Musical has revived the musical genre for the next generation, there is a new kid on the block.

Raphael Saadiq will return to the road for a series of fall and winter tour dates beginning in Seattle, Washington on November 16 and concluding in Minneapolis, Minnesota on December 16 .

HOUSTON, Sept. 29 /PRNewswire/ -- DJ Screw, HAWK, Big Moe, and Pimp C's influence on the sound and culture of Houston, TX is immeasurable.

Fri Oct 2, 2009 3:20am EDT - Kanye West interrupts the acceptance speech from best female video winner Taylor Swift at the 2009 MTV Video Music Awards in New York, September 13, 2009.