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Kehlani, Brent Faiyaz, Chlöe And More WIll Perform At Sol Blume 2023

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Sol Blume is set to return to Sacramento, California this April for two days of R&B festivities. The fourth iteration of Sol Blume will take place at Sacramento’s Discovery Park, and will feature an extensive line-up of today’s hottest R&B acts.

Taking the stage on Friday, April 29 are Brent Faiyaz, who released the critically acclaimed album Wasteland last year, as well as Ella Mai, Isaiah Rashad, Joey Badass, Nao, Sabrina Claudio, and Mariah The Scientist. Also set to perform that day are Alex Isley, Mereba, and Christian Kuria.

On Sunday, April 30, attendees will be able to see Oakland native Kehlani, who released her third album, Blue Water Road last year, as well as Teyana Taylor, Jessie Reyez, Pink Sweats, Chlöe, and PinkPantheress. Buzzy girl group FLO, as well as multihyphenate Coco Jones are also on the schedule for that day.

According to a statement accompanied by the line-up announcement, “local residents and out-of-town travelers alike will soon gather together to enjoy incredible music performances while celebrating the spirit of diversity, creativity, and positivity.”

You can check out the full line-up below and the schedule here. General on-sale for the festival begins Monday, January 30.

Sol Blume 2023 Line-Up
Sol Blume 2023

Some of the artists mentioned here are Warner Music artists. Uproxx is an independent subsidiary of Warner Music Group.

Brent Faiyaz Seems To Only Makes Things Worse In His Tense Video For ‘All Mine’

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The leader of the new school and R&B’s favorite “toxic” king, Brent Faiyaz is back with another video for “All Mine” from his latest album Wasteland. “Toxic” is a term Faiyaz is hesitant to claim and beliefs have been placed on him by the internet as a response to living his life and sharing his seemingly distasteful relationship takes with the world. Call it toxic if you will, but to the F*ck The World crooner it’s simply “some real sh*t.”

Continuing the black and white visual theme with “Loose Change,” Faiyaz also fuels the less than favorable depiction of a romantic partner as he has his main lady, played by model Joan Smalls waiting on him at dinner while he gallivants through the city. Admittedly, Faiyaz knows that “[he’s] been the worst/ but [he’ll] love you better/ if you let [him],” as the song lyrics go.

Yet, as the poetic lyrics progress, he is adamant that if you (or Smalls) are willing to ” catch a flight/ change the weather/ [he] promises forever.” At this point Smalls is alternating between the var and her table at a lavish restaurant, crying in and out of the restroom and profusely checking her phone. As you can imagine, everything that occurs afterwards is all bad.

Watch the chaos unfold in the “All Mine” video above.

Brent Faiyaz Has An Eventful Night Out At The Theater In His New ‘Loose Change’ Video

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Still riding the highs of his sophomore album, Wasteland, which has proven to be one of the year’s most talked about albums, Brent Faiyaz has shared the visual for album cut, “Loose Change.”

In the visual, Faiyaz arrives to a theatrical adaptation of Wasteland, as performed by a group of ballerinas. Crowds fill up the theater in anticipation of witnessing dancers to bring new life to the project. Olympic gymnast Nastasya Generalova joins Faiyaz in the audience, although tension between the two is evident.

Although starring in a music video may be a new feat for Generalova, she revealed in an interview with C-Heads that she lives in a constant state of performance, so certainly, this new feat was nothing daunting for her.

“Being a rhythmic gymnast on the U.S. team, you are constantly performing,” she said. “I perform not only for the intent for the audience and judges to remember who I was and my personality, but I perform for myself as well. The best feeling is when you know you are alone with just your apparatus and it is as if you are dancing with a partner. Everything blurs out and you forget you are performing in front of thousands of people.”

Check out the video for “Loose Change” above.

Brent Faiyaz Set To Drop Video For “Loose Change”

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Brent Faiyaz continues to apply pressure on the R&B scene. This Friday, the Baltimore artist is releasing new visuals for one of his hot tracks from his latest album, Wasteland. The talented singer from the DMV is back at it again with another announcement for his fans.  Brent is set to drop a new music […]

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Brent Faiyaz Responds To Joe Budden’s Claim That He’s Not An Independent Artist

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Brent Faiyaz went on a familiar podcast to clap back at Joe Budden for assuming he was lying about being independent. Brent Faiyaz responded to Joe Budden’s claims about him not being an independent artist. While on the Million Dollarz Worth a Game podcast, Faiyaz was asked by Gillie if he was “truly” an independent […]

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Brent Faiyaz Finds It ‘Hard To Listen To’ His New Album ‘Wasteland’

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Brent Faiyaz just dropped his new album Wasteland, featuring acts like Tyler The Creator, Drake, and Alicia Keys. Though fans have been loving it, he confessed in a new interview with Variety that he has a difficult time listening to it.

He said:

“Oftentimes, records that are real personal will come from a place where I know where it came from and I can pinpoint that to an exact situation that really happened in my life. It can get hard to listen to, and especially hard to perform. Some songs, I’ve been performing, and I’m just like, ‘Man, that’s just a lot; I can’t perform this sh*t right now.’”

About being called labeled a “toxic” R&B singer, he said, “I don’t really think about it, to be honest. I don’t, like, wake up and go to sleep thinking about the state of R&B. Anything that somebody else is making, that’s on them. Any opinions that somebody got on what I make, that’s just how they perceive it.”

He added, “During the process, I write what I write and make what I make. We have to drop it under some category, so we put it under R&B. I don’t really be thinking about it like that.”

Brent Faiyaz Share The Plans He Has For His Previously Announced Project, ‘Make It Out Alive’

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Earlier this month, Brent Faiyaz released his long-awaited second album Wasteland. While the project was his first official album since 2017’s Sonder Son, it was also Brent’s first body of work since 2020’s F*ck The World. Wasteland arrived with 19 songs and features from Drake, Tyler The Creator, Alicia Keys, Joony, and Tre’ Amani, however, there was a point where many thought the project would be released under a different title: Make It Out Alive. During a recent sit-down with Complex’s Jordan Rose, Brent explained that his second album did not undergo a name change, but rather a separate body of work was created.

“I still have a project I want to put out called Make It Out Alive,” Brent said during the conversation. “That’s still in the works—it’s just not this one, because I love the title Wasteland and I love what it represents.” He continued, “I have an idea in my head of what I want Make It Out Alive to be, but all of the songs that I have been making up until this point didn’t fit that title. I wasn’t in the headspace to put that body of work out.”

For what it’s worth, Make It Out Alive seems like the perfect transition from the events that conclude Wasteland. So, if the project does end up being Brent’s third album, it would be interesting to see where he takes things after the success of Wasteland.

You can read Brent’s full interview with Complex here.

Wasteland is out now via Lost Kids LLC. You can stream it here.

Brent Faiyaz Debuts At #2 on Billboard

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Underground R&B is more popular than ever with more artists going mainstream early in their careers. A notable fan favorite, Brent Faiyaz, has finally reached the top spot in R&B. The 26-year-old soulful singer from Maryland now has the top R&B album in the country with his latest project, Wasteland.  Faiyaz’s album only trails Bad […]

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