Vernon L. Slaughter, a pivotal pioneer of the modern black music industry, died on April 22 of kidney failure in Phoenix. By Gail Mitchell Vernon L. Slaughter, a pivotal pioneer of the modern black ...

Some things are worth staying up for, and damn it new Clutch music is one of those things. Right at the crack of midnight, the quartet from Maryland dropped their latest single “Slaughter Beach” and ...

Sir Nai has more than one personality inside him, and they've been dying to get out for a while now. "I'm a very shy person—I'm really within myself," says producer and instrumentalist Sir Nai, born ...

In a couple weeks, Slaughter Beach, Dog are releasing a new album, Crying, Laughing, Waving, Smiling. They've shared a handful of tracks from it already -- "Strange Weather," "Float Away," and "Summer ...

Slaughter Beach, Dog, the melancholy folk-rock project led by Modern Baseball's Jake Ewald, contributed a new song called "Yellow Teeth" to the COVID-19 relief compilation Don't Stand So Close To Me ...

Vernon Slaughter became a vice president in the recording industry's first black music marketing department at CBS Records (now Sony Music) and worked with some legendary artists. Omaha native Vernon ...