Everyone has an LA story, but only a few can sing its soul. Alex Isley is one of them. In fact, the singer-songwriter is fluent in it. Raised in LA, Isley grew up with music as a primary love language ...

2025 could be the year of gentle giants in R&B: Summer Walker’s icy “Heart of a Woman” has been inescapable on Black radio, marking her biggest solo hit since her mainstream breakthrough six years ago ...

It’s not everyday that a singer releases an album with a title that came straight out of a Shonda Rhimes show. But that’s exactly where Alex Isley got the title for her latest album, “Marigold,” which ...

This Black Music Month, Tiny Desk honors the anniversaries of landmark albums that have shaped the course of music and culture. Five years ago, Alex Isley gave us a Tiny Desk (home) concert to ...

Alex Isley at the Hyde Park Summer Fest 2023 (Photo credit: Eddy "Precise" Lamarre) In a sunlit studio not far from where she grew up, Alex Isley settles into a chair for her rolling out Magazine ...

Sometimes the best new R&B can be hard to find, but there are plenty of great rhythm-and-blues tunes to get into if you have the time to sift through the hundreds of newly released songs every week.

Rory Farrell is the definition of being a multi-hyphenate coming from a music executive-manager-event producer-podcast host background. Now, getting into his production bag—sorry to those who expected ...

Warner Records has announced a partnership with executive Tim Hinshaw and his creative studio Free Lunch Agency, launching Free Lunch Records and revealing its first signees Syd and Alex Isley. Over ...

The R&B singer and her fans have anticipated this concert for years. It was worth the wait. This Black Music Month, Tiny Desk honors the anniversaries of landmark albums that have shaped the course of ...