A new documentary examines the golden age of funk music, when large, often interracial bands lay down syncopated grooves that ...

If there was a Mount Funkmore for the greatest funk ... The ‘80s and ‘90s brought hip hop, grunge, rap and alternative rock. Today’s charts are dominated by plastic dance pop that feels ...

Since 2014, British septet Kokoroko, co-founded by trumpeter and composer Sheila Maurice-Grey and percussionist Onome ...

The 1970s was a turning point in United States history. It was also a turning point in popular music. Many new genres were born, and in the process, changed music forever.

Together, Ryan Coogler and Michael B. Jordan have built a cinema collaboration transcending genre. They've leaped from ...

This brisk 80-minute documentary is a wall-to-wall commemoration of a genre by the people who love it the most.

Reginald Kenneth Dwight was a 20-year-old session musician when he applied for a job at a London record label, and was paired ...

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Langenu are a black metal band. On stage at Estonia’s Tallinn Music Week, they are fearsome. Blood-vessel-burstingly intense. Tempering their force with twists into progressive, psychedelic-adjacent ...

Founding Blondie drummer Clem Burke died on Sunday (April 6) at age 70. The group announced the passing of their longtime bandmate on Monday morning (April 7), writing, “it is with profound sadness ...

Gavin Heaney Bouncing offbeat bursts of chordal horns, guitar and keys counterpoint walking bass lines as the high hat skips ...

Jazz guitar icon George Freeman passed away on April 1 at the age of 97. The celebrated musician had planned to mark his 98th birthday on April 10 with a series of concerts at Chi ...