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“We had a lot of fun with our past catalogue with songs about outer space,” singer/guitarist Nick MacDaniels of the band Big Something was saying. “This time, on our new album, the songs are more ...

Wild Cherry's "Play That Funky Music" has remained the band's top song for the past 50 years.

Here Comes the Mummies, an eight-piece funk rock band, are invading the Brown County Music Center this April with their “terrifying funk from beyond the grave” that’s sure to leave audiences smiling.

Legendary American funk-rock band War will bring their live performance to the Chumash Casino Resort’s Samala Showroom at 8 p.m. on Friday, Feb. 6. Tickets for the show are $50, $60, and $70, and ...

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, ...

Bowling Green State University celebrates an American original musical genre with the Funk Music in Popular Culture Conference April 25-26, 2025. A two-day event packed with guest speakers and a ...

This is FRESH AIR. In the 1970s, influential musicians such as Ornette Coleman began combining free jazz and electric funk. Three notable vets of free funk bands periodically team up to get ...