That year, American-Statesman music writer Deborah Sengupta Stith wrote one of the first features on the new group ... of their album. "'Chronicles of a Diamond' by Black Pumas will go down ...

Because the name Black Pumas brings to mind fabled ’60s radicals the Black Panthers, it’s been assumed that guitarist Adrian Quesada and singer Eric Burton were on a mission when they began ...

and Black Pumas — which doesn’t leave much wiggle room in the eight-entry field of Album of the Year. But that is enough space to nod to Chappell Roan’s meteoric rise and the hold that Brat ...