This week’s R&B lineup features new music from Durand Bernarr, Joyce Wrice, Casper Sage, and Alina Baraz, offering a spectrum from soulful ballads to inventive alt-R&B. Current trends show the genre ...

As a concept, alternative R&B is older than its reputation. It emerged in the late ‘90s as a subset of a style the writer Gail Mitchell referred to as “real R&B” in a Billboard story from 2000 — music ...