In October the Wire published a primer on what it pronounced “the moment when Black music grew its Afro and took a lesson from hippy-rock, exploding into the Technicolor dream funk and proto-disco of ...

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 ...

The Ohio Players is one of many funk groups from Dayton that took off in the 1970s and '80s. In the mid-1960s, James Brown was creating a new style of music — funk. Instead of turning elaborate ...

The Brazilian superstar started the global trek on May 18 at the Tecate Emblema festival in Mexico City. By Natalia Cano Brazilian superstar Anitta kicked off her Baile Funk Experience, a world tour ...

In a newly published book, CU Boulder Professor Reiland Rabaka delves into the culture and sound of music’s ‘best-kept secret’ Barely two months into the ‘70s, Funkadelic—led by George Clinton, ...

Last month, the Brazilian artist Ludmilla made history: After powering through her hits during a breakout set at Coachella, she became the first Afro-Latina to perform at the music festival. She riled ...

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 syncopated story of funk music, from its roots to the explosion of '70s urban funk and beyond. WE WANT THE FUNK! is a syncopated voyage through the history of funk music, spanning from African, ...

Funk allowed Black musicians and their audiences to shapeshift and speak truth to power—even while speaking in tongues. But as Stanley Nelson and Nicole London’s documentary WE WANT THE FUNK! reveals, ...