The visuals alone for “Serious Music” will get you grooving (check ‘em out here); the man behind the passionate and creative choreography [...]

Yelawolf Radioactive (Interscope) Michael Wayne Atha’s current release, Radioactive, may be one of the grittiest albums of 2011. Forget being signed to Shady [...]

Mary J. Blige My Life II…The Journey Continues (Act I) (Geffen) http://itunes.apple.com/us/album/my-life-ii…the-journey-continues/id47844937 The Queen of Hip-Hop Soul brings signature talk of love, [...]

Buraka Som Sistema Komba (Enchufada) Buraka Som Sistema’s latest effort Komba creates booty-bass music, Angolan style. Hailing from Portugal and Angola, the group combines [...]

Lalah Hathaway Where It All Begins (Stax) Lalah Hathaway, R&B music’s hidden gem, delivers her sixth album, Where It All Begins, which is [...]

Daryl Hall Laughing Down Crying (Verve Forecast) With the sound of late 70’s, early 80’s rock and soul that Hall and Oates [...]

Mayer Hawthorne How Do You Do (Republic) Could it be I’m “Finally Falling” for Mayer Hawthorne? Not that I didn’t buy into [...]

Frank Ocean Nostalgia, ULTRA (Island Def Jam) Talented singer/songwriter/producer Frank Ocean went on an online rant earlier this year about his reasons [...]

The Cool Kids When Fish Ride Bicycles (Green Label Sound) After dropping a handful of EPs and mixtapes over the last three [...]

Pimp C Still Pimping (Rap-a-Lot) Although late rapper and producer Chad “Pimp C” Butler passed away in 2007, the Texas emcee lives [...]