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 ...

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 ...

“My name is Jane57821. I’m a dirty a computer.” Those are the first words spoken in Janelle Monae’s emotion picture Dirty Computer. Jane’s a sexually liberated, carefree Black girl in the not too ...

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 ...

The artist builds on the Afrofuturistic world from her 2018 album in a new short story collection titled The Memory Librarian. She tells NPR about... Janelle Monáe's 'Dirty Computer' comes alive in a ...

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, ...

UPDATE: Janelle Monae will release her 44-minute short film Dirty Computer: An Emotion Picture By Janelle Monáe on MTV and BET on April 26th, one day before the release of her new album Dirty Computer ...

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 ...

On the eve of her new album’s release, and hours after she came out in a blockbuster Rolling Stone cover story, Janelle Monáe took her victory lap at a listening party for friends, fans, and fawning ...

Janelle Monáe came out as pansexual in a Rolling Stone interview published April 26, a day before the release of her latest studio album and its accompanying short film, “Dirty Computer.” The funky ...

This LGBTQ+ History Month, we're asking writers to reflect on a moment in queer pop culture history that has allowed them to experience queer liberation in their own lives. Check out our coverage here ...