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Our girl Xtina returns to her down and dirty ways in order to compete with the new queen of dance, Lady Gaga, and - no matter how you look at it - she comes up short on this electronica extravangan... Read more

On her fourth album with The Dap-Kings - fittingly titled I Learned the Hard Way - 53-year-old Sharon Jones has inherited the mantle of hardest-working woman in rock'n'roll from Tina Turner, whom v... Read more

This new edition of Blige's latest album, Stronger With Each Tear, features new duets with K'naan and Jay Sean, and - wait for it - brand new covers of Led Zeppelin's Stairway to Heaven and Whole L... Read more

One of the finest soul singers of her generation, Angie Stone shows the rest of the class how it's done. This pretty darn good 12-track album of deep grooves, hooks, hip-hop beats and soulful vocal... Read more

You may remember that this British songstress's impressive 2006 debut album sold four million copies on the strength of her whispery vocals. Well, Bailey Rae's back with an even better album, sound... Read more

Moody, atmospheric, a throwback to "Quiet Storm" soul music - just some of the reasons that Sade's first album in 10 years topped the Billboard 200 and sold 400,000 copies in its first week. Music ... Read more

The greatest soul singer of her generation returns with her best album since 1997's Share My World, and most accessible since 2001's No More Drama. No one explores the ravages of love and respect q... Read more

On this, her fourth album, Keys finds herself far away from the R'n'B stylings that drove her first two albums: Songs in A Minor and The Diary of Alicia Keys. Instead, she again embraces the '80s-s... Read more

Janet is back with her old record company A&M Records (they released Rhythm Nation 1814 back in the day) after crashing and burning with Def Jam. This 34-track double-CD launches the deal, and is m... Read more

After her much-publicized drama with ex-boyfriend Chris Brown, an older (she's 21 but sounds wiser) Rihanna bounces back with a grim, hard album that can only be described as goth R'n'B. You won't ... Read more