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 ...
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 ...
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; ...
Funk music emerged in the 1960s as a vibrant fusion of soul, jazz, and R&B, marked by its syncopated basslines, groovy ...
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 ...
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 ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) George Clinton is a mastermind of funk, an architect of psychedelic grooves, and an innovator whose influence stretches far beyond his Parliament-Funkadelic legacy. Since the late ...
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 ...
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 ...
Chanteur emblématique de la scène funk américaine, Walter Scott Jr. s’est éteint le 27 juin 2025 à l’âge de 81 ans, après un combat contre le cancer. Cofondateur du groupe légendaire The Whispers aux ...