I decided to try some funky breaky stuff again! Something about spring brings out the funk in me. Im starting to feel like I have better control over synthetic real instruments now beyond orchestral ...

Hector Garcia grew up in Los Angeles, raised on the sounds of funk music. He memorized the hip slang and lyrics of funk legend George Clinton, founder of the Parliament-Funkadelic collective along ...

Jon Batiste’s music mirrors connection, intimacy. His songs, accompanied often by his Stay Human ensemble, are so fundamental and informed by deep jazz, Afro-pop, R&B, and New Orleans roots that he is ...

Expressive, versatile, and dripping in history - the fizzing frequencies of funk and the seductive sounds of soul are ever-alluring; and when all these sounds merge on a festival lineup, you can bet ...

A variety of events is coming to Columbus, including comedy shows by Matt Rife and Andrew Dice Clay, a cat rave and a funk-music festival. A picnic fundraiser for Thurber House will include live music ...

After 28 years of working for the same public relations agency, as well as dealing with three separate name changes, Donovan Roche decided it was time for a change for himself. When he joined The ...

It’s been more than three months since Mark Farner’s American Band played a concert, so he’s amped for the next show on his calendar, a June 26 stop at Jergel’s Rhythm Grille in Warrendale. “When we ...

But the band would soon be catapulted to the top of the music industry after the release of their fourth album Stand!In 1969. With hits like “Sing A Simple Song,” “Everyday People” and the title track ...

The leader of the band Sly and the Family Stone, known for blending genres of funk, R&B, psychedelic and more, passed away after a battle with COPD and other health issues. President Trump addresses ...

Sly Stone, the funk music pioneer and frontman of Sly and the Family Stone, has died at the age of 82, his manager, Arlene Hirschkowitz, confirmed to CBS News. Stone died peacefully after a prolonged ...

June 9 (Reuters) - Sly Stone, the driving force behind Sly and the Family Stone, a multiracial American band whose boiling mix of rock, soul and psychedelia embodied 1960s idealism and helped ...

Sly Stone, a onetime San Francisco DJ turned pop and funk music innovator, has died. He was 82. "It is with profound sadness that we announce the passing of our beloved dad, Sly Stone of Sly and the ...