Instead of emphasizing chord changes and melody, funk accentuated heavily syncopated beats and rhythmic and repetitive bass ...

Showa City Club is easy to miss – the unassuming shopfront sits next to a home appliances store in a rapidly changing corner of Hong Kong’s Sham Shui Po neighbourhood in Kowloon. Its shelves hold a ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) George Clinton is a mastermind of funk, an architect of psychedelic grooves, and an innovator whose ...

It’s one of the most influential legacies in modern music, still growing 50 years after its conception. It’s hard to narrow down the scope of the sprawling P-Funk family. But we can start with its ...

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 ...

Fifty years after late songwriter Roy C. Hammond self-released "Impeach the President," its crisp funky drum sample continues appearing in hundreds of rap songs.

It's about to get funky. By Big Gigantic Welcome, one and all, to Funkytown. Taking you through 20 years’ worth of funk music — from The Isley Brothers’ “It’s Your Thing” to The Whispers’ “Rock Steady ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. It was goodbye for one of soccer's most adored national teams. Brazil, five-time World Cup winners, lost to Croatia in the ...

On March 17th, 2024, The African Music Library and lawyer and historian Nze Ed Emeka Keazor hosted the official Lagos premiere of Nze Keazor’s film Ki'mon In an era where the contributions of our past ...