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December 2025

  • Toni Braxton performing at the R&B Xmas Ball.

    R&B Xmas Ball review – Toni Braxton melts hearts and Boyz II Men blow minds on trip back to the 90s

  • Eliza Rose.

    Honest playlist
    ‘Witness (1 Hope) by Roots Manuva gives me some bad girl energy’: Eliza Rose’s honest playlist

  • Steve Cropper & Dave Mason In Concert - Pasadena, CAPASADENA, CA - SEPTEMBER 28: Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee Steve Cropper, founding member of Booker T. & the MG's and the Blues Brothers Band, performs onstage at The Rose on September 28, 2018 in Pasadena, California. (Photo by Scott Dudelson/Getty Images)

    Steve Cropper obituary

  • Remarkable … Steve Cropper in Nashville in 2020.

    From Otis Redding to Booker T, Steve Cropper was a strong yet subtle force that shaped so many soul classics

    Garth Cartwright

  • Steve Cropper, legendary guitarist for Booker T & the MGs, dies aged 84

  • Best music of 2025
    The 20 best songs of 2025

November 2025

  • Mica Paris

    Honest playlist
    ‘It hurts listening to Whitney Houston – I knew her so well’: Mica Paris’s honest playlist

    The soul star and Prince collaborator could hardly reach the counter when she bought her first record, but which Busta Rhymes song gets her moving?
  • two women in black and white outfits stand on stage holding hands

    Brandy and Monica review – 90s R&B heavyweights bring star-studded reunion to New York

    The Boy is Mine pair were joined by Kelly Rowland, Fat Joe, Ciara and Tyrese for a sometimes strange, sometimes soaring throwback night

    • Winter food 2025
      Not Mariah again! New music playlists for the Christmas party season

    • Grammys 2026: the nominations in all the major categories

    • Ravyn Lenae review – art-school dreamer at ease with her own melancholy

October 2025

  • A composite image of pictures used throughout The Long Wave's first year of publication including: Michelle Obama and Stormzy.

    The Long Wave
    A sprawling global family: The Long Wave turns one

    Newsletter
  • Sananda Maitreya at O2 Academy, Liverpool.

    Sananda Maitreya review – the former Terence Trent D’Arby returns in astonishing vocal form

  • ‘The memories are the same’… Dev Hynes.

    ‘It’s scary how many St George’s flags there were’: Blood Orange on coming home to Essex and mourning his mother

  • Andrew Lawrence

    D’Angelo was far more than the shirtless sex symbol he was painted as

    Andrew Lawrence

  • D’Angelo obituary

  • ‘The architect of Black Gen X sonic feeling and eloquence’: D’Angelo’s 10 greatest tracks

  • D’Angelo, Grammy-winning neo-soul pioneer, dies aged 51

  • Experimental, sensual and political, D’Angelo radically redrew the boundaries of soul music

    Alexis Petridis

  • D’Angelo – a life in pictures

    Gallery16
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