VIA: KYSDC.com Check out The Roots performing live at Spirit Fest 2010 in DC.

VIA: KYSDC.com Janelle Monae has been called the female Prince. She showed the residents of the DMV exactly why this weekend during her performance at Spirit Fest.  Check out highlights below.

VIA: KYSDC.com Erykah Badu was one of the featured artists at this weekend’s Summer Spirit Fest in DC.  Below is footage of her performance at the event.

From Fillmore Charlotte’s FB and Livenation: “Due to a scheduling conflict, the Corinne Bailey Rae concert scheduled to play on Sept. 8 has been cancelled. Tix can refunded at point of purchase beginning Wed 8/4 at 10am. Tix purchased online or via phones will be automatically refunded. For more info, visit http://www.livenation.com.”

The Condeleeza Rice of the Bush Administration was stiff and seemed disconnected from the black community. Post-Bush Condi is turning out to be soul sista’ number 1. The professionally-trained pianist recently teamed with Aretha Franklin for a charity concert in Philadelphia. Rice was met with cheers and a few boos when she stepped on stage […]

Oscar-winning actress/comedian/talk show host Mo’Nique at Majic 107.5 / 97.5’s ATL Summer Jam!

Look out Lady Gaga, there’s another musician rocking out in custom-made Giorgio Armani outfits—Alicia Keys! The soulful songstress, who was dressed in head-to-toe Armani for her 2008 As I Am tour, will rock four dazzling, one-of-a-kind costumes from the Italian designer for her current tour, The Element of Freedom. The Element of Freedom tour kicked […]

Tune into Fly Ty weekdays to win tickets to Maxwell’s Charlotte performance. He will be at the Time Warner Cable Arena on June 29. His opening act is to be announced. The platinum-selling soul star added shows with Erykah Badu and Melanie Fiona to the 20 previously announced dates featuring Jill Scott. The 33 date […]

In all of my years of covering entertainment here, I have to say this is one of the biggest surprises. Maxwell is returning to Time Warner Cable Arena on June 29. That’s less than a year after he performed at the arena in October. Whoa! Charlotte rarely gets that kind of love from urban acts […]

Singer Bobby Brown proposed to his girlfriend of nearly three years, manager Alicia Etheridge, on Friday while on stage at his show at Metro Park in Jacksonville, Florida.

We recently told you about Whitney Houston and her first concert in London in more than a decade that left her fans disappointed and asking for refunds.  Well Houston returned for another performance and to her credit, the singer, 46, knew she was disappointing the crowd, and she shook her head and tried to reassure […]

VIA CHARLOTTE OBSERVER Bill Cosby conceived and co-wrote a rap album. The CD, called “Bill Cosby Presents the Cosnarati: State of Emergency” and released in September, is the latest socially conscious salvo from the comedian, who for more than five years has been increasingly vocal about problems in the black community. Cosby brings his classic […]