Janelle Monae’s new 44-minute “emotion picture” for “Dirty Computer” will premiere on MTV and BET on April 26, the companies announced. Monae’s album will be released the following day. (View the ...

As the opener of Janelle Monae’s newest record bursts into its second track, the fluorescent pop-rap fusion of “Crazy Classic Life,” I can hear traces of the expansive synth-crazed ‘80s I was born ...

Janelle Monae dropped a video today for “I Like That,” the fourth song to be released from her forthcoming third full-length album and “emotion picture,” “Dirty Computer,” which drops on Friday. She ...

But unlike most of the collective pile-ups cluttering the pop landscape these days, the songs feel steered by a single sure and distinctive vision. Monáe co-writes everything here but for a couple of ...

Janelle Monáe sat down for an intimate conversation about her album Dirty Computer at New York’s 92nd Street Y on Tuesday night. The artist also elaborated on her tour in support of the LP, film ...

It's been a while since Janelle Monáe’s last album -- 2013's The Electric Lady-- but in that time, Monáe has been coming into her own, an impressive accomplishment for someone who already came across ...

Janelle Monáe‘s music has always been at the forefront of Afrofuturistic storytelling. Now, the eight-time Grammy-nominated singer/songwriter is taking her stories to the page with a science fiction ...

In an interview with Billboard, Janelle Monae dives into her new album 'Dirty Computer,' artistic responsibility and working with Pharrell Williams. By Stephanie Smith-Strickland Thursday (April 26), ...

TODAY’S musicians know that, like sex, social awareness sells. The work of two stars with arguably the most cultural cachet, Beyoncé and Kendrick Lamar, weaves personal experience into wider feelings ...

It has been a very big year for Janelle Monáe. She was named trailblazer of the year at Billboard's Women in Music awards, woman of the year by Glamour. She came out as pansexual in a sprawling ...

Janelle Monae’s Dirty Computer landed at No. 2 on our 2018 critic poll’s best albums list. Check out the poll here, and our thoughts on the album’s impact below. Although Janelle Monae spent years at ...