Note: NPR's First Listen audio comes down after the album is released. However, you can still listen with the Spotify or Apple Music playlist at the bottom of the page. Estelle's Lovers Rock — named ...

Back in the '80s, Sade served as shorthand for a musical movement of mellow madness spawned by a sloe-eyed singer who crooned slinky songs of love and loss. It was music to chill to, Sade's ...

After 25 years of making music, The Dears know how to adapt to an altered landscape. Husband and wife Murray Lightburn and Natalia Yanchek, the core duo of the Montreal, Canada rock band, have ...

Soul Jazz's latest compilation focuses on British lovers rock, the softer, more feminine counterpart to the politicized roots reggae that soundtracked radical social and racial events in 1970s and 80s ...