Charlotte has a rich history of funk music. Back in 1965, the "Grandmaster of Funk" himself Mr. James Brown recorded his single “Papa’s Got a Brand New Bag” right here in the Queen City. As one of ...

Funk music was transforming rapidly in the 1970s, and by 1976, many hits already felt timeless because they sounded like the ...

As Nick Rocchio-Giordano, MCAS ’18, Mario Borges, MCAS ’18, and Henry Ricciardi, CSOM ’18, all saunter over from Mac to the Stokes Amphitheater, it becomes very apparent that the three sophomores ...

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, ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) Few artists have had a more significant influence on both funk and soul music than Larry Graham. As the pioneering bassist of Sly and the Family Stone and the dynamic frontman of ...

The Detroit Opera will showcase some of funk maestro George Clinton 's and P-Funk's greatest hits this weekend, performed by ...

50 years after Parliament’s “Mothership Connection,” George Clinton is still bringing the funk to fans all over the world.

BooBoo Groove. Left to right: Nathaniel Grant, Curtis Arnett, Luke Moss, and Arnie Ashford. If you close your eyes you wouldn't know it was a sleepy Sunday morning here in Salem at the back of "Coffee ...

The arrival of these two compilations of 1970s jazz/funk begs one simple question: what took RCA so long? The fact that the mini-revival known as acid jazz peaked about five years ago puts these ...

Joshua Sithole is a legendary figure in South African Township Soul. Known for his groove-rich 1975 album Africa, he later became a household name in hotel circuits. Veteran music writer and musician ...