Exile originated in Kentucky, playing local events and covers, but grew enough for “Kiss You All Over” to become a number-one ...

American musician Daniel “Danny” Peter Bedrosian has just published a second book on George Clinton’s Parliament-Funkadelic ...

Mention the term “post-punk” and thoughts of politicized lyrics set to obtuse rhythms with swathes of angular guitars immediately spring to mind. Yet while that may be true to some extent, it only ...

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 ...

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, ...

Calvin Simon, a founding member of the pioneering funk music group Parliament-Funkadelic, died Thursday at age 79. A cause of death was not immediately available. The news was confirmed Saturday by a ...

James Brown once said, "I've only got seventh grade education, but I have a doctorate in funk, and I like to put that to good use." While artists like Brown, George Clinton and Morris Day have ...

With President Donald Trump waging war on the arts, via his control of the Kennedy Center and his ongoing attacks on museums nationwide, the power of artistic resistance has been on my mind. And a new ...

The frontman for psych-rock eccentrics Panbers opens this revelatory compilation by singing, “I like Beatles songs / I love Rolling Stones / I love Led Zeppelin.” Suffering under a brutal dictatorship ...

The evolution and influence of funk music and Michigan Poet Laureate Melba Joyce Boyd. “American Black Journal” host Stephen Henderson talks with Satori Shakoor, who was a member of the Brides of ...

Funk music pioneer Rick James, famous for the raunchy 1981 hit “Super Freak (Part 1)” and later infamous for drug and sex crimes that outdid the debauchery of his songs, was found dead Friday morning ...