Brevity and directness are not Janelle Monáe’s things. Her albums, when they arrive, are vast and sprawling and messily ambitious. In the past, she’s collided R&B with new wave and Broadway and ...

In “Pynk,” a single from Janelle Monae’s third full-length, “Dirty Computer,” she sings, “Pink beyond forest and thighs/ Pink like the secrets you hide, maybe.” Its video a bold celebration of lady ...

Janelle Monáe rarely goes more than a few minutes on her new album, “Dirty Computer,” without evoking the hardship and injustice that color the American experience for so many. Police violence, pay ...

After coming out to Rolling Stone and giving a very open and insightful interview to The Breakfast Club, Janelle Monae caps off her week with the release of her highly anticipated third studio LP, ...

Put some champagne in your chalice and find a comfortable seat on the couch because on Thursday, April 26 Janelle Monáe is premiering her Dirty Computer short film. The 44-minute "emotion pic," as she ...

Janelle Monáe recruited stars from the worlds of indie (Grimes) and hip-hop (Pharrell) to contribute to her new album Dirty Computer. But the very first collaborator that appears on the LP is none ...

Janelle Monáe's performance in the 2016 film "Hidden Figures" earned rave reviews. But it was her music that first put her on the path to stardom ... a path that started with family, as she explains ...

Janelle Monáe's collaborative short fiction collection, The Memory Librarian: And Other Stories from Dirty Computer, will be published by Harper Voyager Books on April 19, 2022 Sam Gillette is a Staff ...

Singer Janelle Monáe is releasing an anthology of “Afro-futuristic” short stories inspired by her most recent album, 2018’s Dirty Computer. The “Tightrope” singer shared the book’s official cover on ...

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 ...

Our memories, our dreams and our emotions — these are the parts of us that exemplify our humanity. But in Janelle Monáe's new collection of short stories, The Memory Librarian and Other Stories of ...

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 ...