This week's best new hip-hop and R&B songs, including tracks from Leon Thomas & Halle, Davido & Victoria Monet, Wiz Khalifa, Sault, and Sleepy Hallow.

Mrs. Sallie Chew Baker, known affectionately as “Dear Mama” by friends and family, was a widow, prominent businesswoman, educator, pioneer, spiritual leader, and a beloved figure in Caroline County, ...

Renowned rock album cover designer Ioannis Vasilopoulos has passed away, his family announced this week. He was 66 years old. Among some of his most notable works were the projects where he worked ...

THE SKINNY: For their third album Hex Key, psych-pop quartet Mamalarky sought inspiration from the bustling street outside their home studio in Los Angeles. Reflecting a slice of the city’s suburbia, ...

Some of the weirdest album covers in history from Pink Floyd, Debbie Harry, Peter Gabriel and Queen. Picture: Press/Alamy Radio X Classic Rock takes a look at some of the strangest, freakiest and ...

Simple Minds' Jim Kerr joins Gary, celebrating 40 years of the 'Once Upon A Time' album and 80s anthem 'Don't You (Forget About Me)', spinning his personal 80s faves and looking ahead to the band ...

More info Tupac Shakur cut a controversial figure during his short eventful life, New York city-born to Black Panther parents he was murdered, aged 25, in Nevada in 1996. His song Dear Mama ...

In addition, his heartfelt hit, 'Dear Mama', an open letter ... In 1995, Tupac made history as the first ever recording artist to have an album debut atop the Billboard 200 while incarcerated ...

Kravitz' third album after Let Love Rule (1989) and Mama Said (1991 ... the single Jump They Say and a cover of Morrissey's I Know It's Gonna Happen Some Day all standout moments.

I should have really thought about this, because sometimes I feel really feminine, other times I feel really masculine. And so half the time I'm super pleased with this album cover, and then the other ...

If I stop for too long, I worry I’ll forget how to do it.” When it came to the album’s cover, Dacus knew she wanted “a real, handmade piece of art”—a corrective to the deluge of ...

It’s not a happy Mother’s Day anthem, but it’s one of the most powerful. “Hey Mama” – Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats This soulful track reflects on past mistakes and the wisdom imparted by a ...