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Check out our long list of albums that hit streaming Thursday night, including new records by Bon Iver, Valerie June, Ken ...
Some of the best funk songs of all time sound just as fresh as they did when they came out decades ago, which is beyond rare.
With a new album arriving, why everyone from the biggest fans to Kamala Harris is calling for a brighter light on Bootzilla.
Langenu are a black metal band. On stage at Estonia’s Tallinn Music Week, they are fearsome. Blood-vessel-burstingly intense. Tempering their force with twists into progressive, psychedelic-adjacent ...
"Once you get the funk out there, it's not going back. You can't put it back in the box," says filmmaker Stanley Nelson. His ...
Funk music has been around since the 1960s, developing out of gospel, R&B and soul, with a distinct emphasis on "syncopated ...
We Want the Funk!” shows how funk music fueled a pro-Black resistance in the face of racist repression — and may offer some lessons in fighting Trumpism.
Alex Lifeson’s legacy as a virtuosic guitarist and co-founder of one of the most iconic progressive rock bands of all time is firmly etched in rock history, tha ...
A new documentary examines the golden age of funk music, when large, often interracial bands lay down syncopated grooves that ...
Bruno Mars takes a heartbreak to celestial heights with Talking to the Moon, a song that feels like a dream wrapped in melody. Find out the lyrics now.
Singer-songwriter Sute Iwar has long been a pioneer in Nigeria’s alternative scene, with a unique fusion of Hip Hop, Soul, ...
But sadly, the Soul Sonic Force—comprised of Mr. Biggs, Pow Wow, The G.L.O.B.E and DJ Jazzy Jay—has lost one its members.