Check out Okayplayer's official 4/20 playlist featuring a no-pass batch of psychedelic funk and soul obscurities. With the country (mostly) in lockdown, due to COVID-19 (coronavirus), this year's 4/20 ...

The foundations of funk were laid down in the mid-1960s, when James Brown began to emphasize the first beat of each measure in his stage-tested and frenzy-inducing R&B songs. Before the decade’s end, ...

Everything I Do Gonna Be Funky (From Now On); Let Me Lay My Funk On You; Funky Junk; Down Home Funk; Loft Funk; God Make Me Funky; Cosmic Funk; Who Got De Funk?, Part 2; Canned Funk; Feeling Funky; ...

Annual crab night dinner and being part of a West Coast funk movement that started with us playing a lot of old music. Now it's totally normal to be weaving in artists who are making music who I know, ...

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 ...

The spirit of Throwback Thursday is alive and well in Minnesota's Twin Cities. Packed onto the dance floors of Minneapolis and St. Paul clubs, a small but passionate circuit of r&b revivalists has ...

Funk music emerged in the 1960s as a vibrant fusion of soul, jazz, and R&B, marked by its syncopated basslines, groovy ...

Pas moins de 10 ans que le Festival des Amis de La Scène accueille son public ami, pour une semaine entière de concerts, avec un final le jour de la Fête de la musique. Créée par Axel il y a une ...

Filmmaker Stanley Nelson Jr. had just premiered his 2019 “Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool” at the Sundance Film Festival when, as he was out on the dance floor, the topic of his next film came up. “We ...

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 ...