You can groove along with Tallahassee band Pharaohs of Funk live at Levitt AMP Tallahassee: Music Under the Oaks concert on ...

If there was a Mount Funkmore for the greatest funk bassists, Marcus Miller’s face and trademark porkpie hat would be sculpted into that musical monument. Miller honed his musical chops during funk’s ...

The foundations of funk were laid down in the mid-1960s, when James Brown began to emphasize the first beat of each measure in his stage-tested and frenzy-inducing R&B songs. Before the decade’s end, ...

In his ’70s prime, George Clinton revolutionized the art of modern funk while leading two distinct recording outfits, Parliament and Funkadelic, touring with a flying saucer (called the Mothership) ...

There’s immense variety in popular music careers, even beyond the extremes of one-hit wonders and the long-haulers touring stadiums into their dotage. There are those who embody a specific era, ...

Popular musical rhythms are always skipping and skittering back and forth between Africa and its diasporic communities, from Jamaica to Brazil to Colombia and elsewhere. “That’s a process that’s been ...

I could live 10 lives and still not hear half of the worthwhile music that's out there. It's a wonderful yet frustrating feeling. Looking at the rows of funk compilations at Chicago's Dusty Groove ...