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Alternative R&B

Index Alternative R&B

Alternative R&B (also referred to as PBR&B, indie R&B, experimental R&B, and hipster R&B) is a term used by music journalists to describe a stylistic alternative to contemporary R&B. [1]

62 relations: African-American music, Alternative dance, Alternative hip hop, Alternative rock, Beauty Behind the Madness, Billboard (magazine), CBC Music, Complex (magazine), Contemporary R&B, D'Angelo, Drake (musician), Electronic dance music, Electronic music, Emo rap, Erykah Badu, Exclaim!, FKA Twigs, Frank Ocean, Hallucinogen (EP), Hip hop music, Hipster (contemporary subculture), Holy Other, How to Dress Well, HuffPost, Independent music, Indie rock, Janet Jackson, Kaleidoscope Dream, Kelela, Kenna, List of alternative R&B artists, Los Angeles Times, Make Sure They See My Face, Maxwell (musician), Miguel (singer), Multiracial, Negging, Neo soul, New York (magazine), New York Post, Pabst Blue Ribbon, PopMatters, Prince (musician), Rhythm and blues, Rock music, Slate (magazine), Social media, Spin (magazine), Stereogum, Take Care (album), ..., The Awl, The Fader, The Grio, The Guardian, The Quietus, The Vancouver Sun, The Velvet Rope, The Village Voice, The Weeknd, Thursday (album), Twitter, Vibe (magazine). Expand index (12 more) »

African-American music

African-American music is an umbrella term covering a diverse range of musics and musical genres largely developed by African Americans.

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Alternative dance

Alternative dance is a genre that mixes alternative or indie rock with post-disco dance music.

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Alternative hip hop

Alternative hip hop (also known as alternative rap) is a subgenre of hip hop music that encompasses the wide range of styles of hip hop that are not typically identified as mainstream.

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Alternative rock

Alternative rock (also called alternative music, alt-rock or simply alternative) is a style of rock music that emerged from the independent music underground of the 1980s and became widely popular in the 1990s.

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Beauty Behind the Madness

Beauty Behind the Madness is the second studio album by Canadian singer The Weeknd.

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Billboard (magazine)

Billboard (styled as billboard) is an American entertainment media brand owned by the Billboard-Hollywood Reporter Media Group, a division of Eldridge Industries.

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CBC Music

CBC Music (formerly known as CBC FM, CBC Stereo and CBC Radio 2) is a Canadian FM radio network operated by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.

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Complex (magazine)

Complex is an American New York-based media platform for youth culture which was founded as a bi-monthly magazine by fashion designer Marc (Ecko) Milecofsky.

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Contemporary R&B

Contemporary R&B (also known as simply R&B), is a music genre that combines elements of rhythm and blues, pop, soul, funk, hip hop, and electronic music.

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D'Angelo

Michael Eugene Archer (born February 11, 1974), better known by his stage name D'Angelo (pronounced di-Angelo), is an American singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and record producer.

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Drake (musician)

Aubrey Drake Graham (born October 24, 1986) is a Canadian rapper, singer, songwriter, actor, and entrepreneur.

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Electronic dance music

Electronic dance music (also known as EDM, dance music, club music, or simply dance) is a broad range of percussive electronic music genres made largely for nightclubs, raves, and festivals.

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Electronic music

Electronic music is music that employs electronic musical instruments, digital instruments and circuitry-based music technology.

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Emo rap

Emo rap (also referred to as emo hip hop) is a subgenre of hip hop fusing styles commonly used in hip hop music – specifically trap music and cloud rap – with lyrical themes and vocals commonly found in emo music, as well as elements of other closely associated rock genres such as indie rock, pop punk and nu metal.

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Erykah Badu

Erica Abi Wright (born February 26, 1971), known professionally as Erykah Badu, is an American singer-songwriter, record producer, disc jockey, activist, and actress.

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Exclaim!

Exclaim! is a monthly Canadian music magazine that features in-depth coverage of new music across all genres with a special focus on Canadian and cutting-edge artists.

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FKA Twigs

Tahliah Debrett Barnett (born 16 January 1988), known professionally as FKA Twigs (stylised as FKA twigs), is an English singer, songwriter, record producer, director and dancer.

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Frank Ocean

Frank Ocean (born Christopher Edwin Breaux; October 28, 1987) is an American singer, songwriter, rapper, record producer and photographer.

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Hallucinogen (EP)

Hallucinogen is the debut extended play (EP) by American singer and songwriter Kelela.

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Hip hop music

Hip hop music, also called hip-hopMerriam-Webster Dictionary entry on hip-hop, retrieved from: A subculture especially of inner-city black youths who are typically devotees of rap music; the stylized rhythmic music that commonly accompanies rap; also rap together with this music.

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Hipster (contemporary subculture)

The hipster subculture is stereotypically composed of younger and middle-aged adults who reside primarily in gentrified neighborhoods.

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Holy Other

Holy Other is a British electronic musician and producer originally from Stockport, Greater Manchester, England.

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How to Dress Well

How to Dress Well is the stage name of American singer-songwriter Tom Krell.

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HuffPost

HuffPost (formerly The Huffington Post and sometimes abbreviated HuffPo) is a liberal American news and opinion website and blog that has both localized and international editions.

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Independent music

Independent music (often referred to as indie music or indie) is music produced independently from commercial record labels or their subsidiaries, a process that may include an autonomous, do-it-yourself approach to recording and publishing.

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Indie rock

Indie rock is a genre of rock music that originated in the United Kingdom in the 1970s.

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Janet Jackson

Janet Damita Jo Jackson (born May 16, 1966) is an American singer, songwriter, dancer, and actress.

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Kaleidoscope Dream

Kaleidoscope Dream is the second studio album by American R&B recording artist Miguel, released on September 25, 2012, by RCA Records.

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Kelela

Kelela Mizanekristos (born June 6, 1983) is an Ethiopian American singer and songwriter.

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Kenna

Kenna Zemedkun, known professionally as Kenna, is an Ethiopian–American musician, philanthropist and technology creative.

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List of alternative R&B artists

This is a list of alternative R&B artists.

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Los Angeles Times

The Los Angeles Times is a daily newspaper which has been published in Los Angeles, California since 1881.

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Make Sure They See My Face

Make Sure They See My Face is the second studio album by American singer-songwriter Kenna.

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Maxwell (musician)

Gerald Maxwell Rivera better known by his stage names Maxwell and Musze, is an American (of Puerto Rican and Haitian descent) singer-songwriter, record producer, and actor.

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Miguel (singer)

Miguel Jontel Pimentel (born October 23, 1985) is an American singer, songwriter, actor and record producer.

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Multiracial

Multiracial is defined as made up of or relating to people of many races.

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Negging

Negging is an act of emotional manipulation whereby a person makes a deliberate backhanded compliment or otherwise flirtatious remark to another person to undermine their confidence and increase their need of the manipulator's approval.

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Neo soul

Neo soul is a genre of popular music.

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New York (magazine)

New York is an American biweekly magazine concerned with life, culture, politics, and style generally, and with a particular emphasis on New York City.

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New York Post

The New York Post is the fourth-largest newspaper in the United States and a leading digital media publisher that reached more than 57 million unique visitors in the U.S. in January 2017.

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Pabst Blue Ribbon

Pabst Blue Ribbon is an American lager beer sold by Pabst Brewing Company, established in Milwaukee, Wisconsin in 1844 and currently based in Los Angeles.

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PopMatters

PopMatters is an international online magazine of cultural criticism that covers many aspects of popular culture.

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Prince (musician)

Prince Rogers Nelson (June 7, 1958 – April 21, 2016) was an American singer, songwriter, musician, record producer and filmmaker.

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Rhythm and blues

Rhythm and blues, commonly abbreviated as R&B, is a genre of popular music that originated in African American communities in the 1940s.

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Rock music

Rock music is a broad genre of popular music that originated as "rock and roll" in the United States in the early 1950s, and developed into a range of different styles in the 1960s and later, particularly in the United Kingdom and in the United States.

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Slate (magazine)

Slate is an online magazine that covers current affairs, politics, and culture in the United States from a liberal perspective.

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Social media

Social media are computer-mediated technologies that facilitate the creation and sharing of information, ideas, career interests and other forms of expression via virtual communities and networks.

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Spin (magazine)

Spin is an American music magazine founded in 1985 by publisher Bob Guccione, Jr. The magazine stopped running in print in 2012 and currently runs as a webzine.

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Stereogum

Stereogum is a daily Internet publication that focuses on music news, song premieres, and irreverent commentary.

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Take Care (album)

Take Care is the second studio album by Canadian rapper Drake.

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The Awl

The Awl was a website about "news, ideas and obscure Internet minutiae of the day" based in New York City.

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The Fader

The Fader (stylized as The FADER) is a NYC-based music magazine launched in 1999 by Rob Stone and Jon Cohen, covering music, style and culture.

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The Grio

TheGrio is an American website with news, opinion, entertainment and video content geared toward African Americans.

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The Guardian

The Guardian is a British daily newspaper.

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The Quietus

The Quietus is a British online music and pop culture magazine, focusing on arts news, reviews, and features.

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The Vancouver Sun

The Vancouver Sun is a daily newspaper first published in the Canadian province of British Columbia on 12 February 1912.

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The Velvet Rope

The Velvet Rope is the sixth studio album by American recording artist Janet Jackson.

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The Village Voice

The Village Voice is an American news and culture paper, known for being the country's first alternative newsweekly.

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The Weeknd

Abel Makkonen Tesfaye (born 16 February 1990), known by his stage name The Weeknd (pronounced as the weekend), is a Canadian singer, songwriter, and record producer.

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Thursday (album)

Thursday is the second mixtape by Canadian singer The Weeknd, independently released on August 18, 2011.

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Twitter

Twitter is an online news and social networking service on which users post and interact with messages known as "tweets".

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Vibe (magazine)

Vibe is an American music and entertainment magazine founded by producer Quincy Jones.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alternative_R%26B

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