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

After years of planning, the Funk Music Hall of Fame and Exhibition Center is ready to get funked up. >> Funk museum in Dayton is now open -- and Bootsy Collins is excited The center, located at 113 E ...

Despite all of our swamps, bugs and crazy people, Florida’s musical profile has always been surprisingly sedate. But appearances, as they say, aren’t always the same as reality; as crate-diggers ...

It's in the pine trees that shaded the one-room South Carolina shack that housed his first years. In the soil that grounded them. That's where the late James Brown said he excavated his inspiration, ...

The Red & Black is a 501c3 nonprofit. Please consider a one-time gift or become a monthly supporter. Cancel anytime. National Get Funky Day will be observed for the very first time on Thursday, Oct. 5 ...

Singer LUDMILLA performs onstage during Weekend 2 - Day 3 of the Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival at Empire Polo Club on April 21, 2024 in Indio, California. - Credit: Scott Dudelson/Getty ...

On the Thursday evening of Spring Fling, a dozen Penn students and I gathered in the Emily Sachs Dance Gallery in Irvine Auditorium. We didn’t come to pregame the concert; we came to earn some street ...

Funk music has had its own share of ups and downs in terms of audience popularity over the years and Hyderabadi bands too have been slow to embrace the genre. So, when a rare city band calls itself an ...