I'll admit, we've been Facebook friends for years, but I never really did my due diligence and made my way to Philly to check the lovely singer/songwriter Lydia Rene live and in person. Man, am I missing out! During a recent performance at the Tin Angel, the self-proclaimed 'piano chick' made ...

Your name isn't mine yet. That, in a nutshell, is what's wrong with everything in the world. That's what makes my heart ache at night as I wonder when, not if, we'll be together What fills my mind every time I think About the distance between my life and yours It's not something that ...

Fine. I'll be the one to admit it. I've always liked Will Smith's raps. They were never pretentious (in a bad way, anyway), or boring. Sure they bored on corny, but that, in fact, was their appeal. From the lesser known "I'm Looking For The One To Be With Me" ...

The hits just keep on coming in 2011... and it's only February. So many artists are putting out new material, to the delight of their fans, of course, and also to the delight of casual music lovers. The best part of this groundswell of creativity is that it's not just ...

Finally, the song I love the most on Erykah Badu's New Amerykah Part II: Return Of The Ankh, has a video to accompany its awesomeness. When I first picked up the album a little less than a year ago, it was this song that stopped me dead in my tracks. ...

This is exactly what I needed today. The day after finding out that one of my dearest friends passed away. The morning after finding out that she was taken way too soon. After finding out that she wouldn't be here anymore. Usually, that's the kind of news, the kind of ...