The career of singer-songwriter Claire Cottrill, who records as Clairo, illustrates how this dynamic works. She recorded her first album, 2019’s “Immunity,” with Rostam Batmanglij, formerly of Vampire ...

Today, The Roots’ lyricist Black Thought and cinematic soul group led by New York-based musician Leon Michel, El Michels Affair, hand-delivered a bouquet of water-kissed roses in the form of their new ...

Leon Michels is building a roster of team players for his newly announced El Michels Affair album, 24 Hr Sports. Out Sept. 5 via Big Crown Records, the record kicks off with the lead single ...

Between Coachella weekends, and following his acclaimed new album “Glorious Game” with Black Thought, super producer Leon Michels rocks a KCRW guest DJ set. Between Coachella weekends, and following ...

The Roots frontman Black Thought continues his prolific solo career with Glorious Game, a new 12-song collaborative album with El Michels Affair, the retro-soul group known for “reverse-engineering” ...

During the pandemic, the Roots co-founder Black Thought fell into a collaborative rhythm with the soul group El Michels Affair, soaking in the material sent to him by their frontman Leon Michels. Soon ...

Continuing a prolific run of collaborations outside of the Roots, rapper Black Thought has teamed with Leon Michels’ soul project El Michels Affair for a new album, Glorious Game, which will be ...

Black Thought’s prolific solo career continues with a collaborative album with retro-soul group (and Wu-Tang Clan affiliates) El Michels Affair. Black Keys frontman Dan Auerbach’s other band The Arcs ...

Tariq "Black Thought" Trotter and retro-soul group El Michels Affair are preparing to release the collaborative album "Glorious Game." Though the album isn't due until April, the artists shared its ...

Tariq "Black Thought" Trotter and retro-soul group El Michels Affair released their much-anticipated collaborative album, "Glorious Game," on Friday. On the 12-track album, The Roots co-founder wades ...

Marco Benevento has long been known as a piano and keys savant, and a deep and innovative explorer of psych-rock and jazz, but lately, he’s been leaning into pop sensibilities, building punchy, catchy ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Norah Jones and Leon Bridges teamed up for a holiday single, “This Christmas I’m Coming Home.” The song was written by Jones and ...