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A new documentary examines the golden age of funk music, when large, often interracial bands lay down syncopated grooves that ...
When assessing The Smiths' celebrated body of work, guitarist Johnny Marr spoke candidly about the misgivings he held for one ...
M uch like Ferris Bueller, Rage Against The Machine seems to unite every kind of person who listens to guitar music. Funky ...
The ‘80s and ‘90s brought hip hop ... like Lakeside even fit all their members on their album covers. Miller, whose comment about no sad funk songs appears in the film, tells me that he ...
Though Underground Vol. 1: 1991-1994 isn’t a reissue of a specific lost tape, it’s a crucial part of that historical record.
Since 2014, British septet Kokoroko, co-founded by trumpeter and composer Sheila Maurice-Grey and percussionist Onome ...
Testify," but another game-changing record pushed them further towards the funk. "Soon as we got a hit record, was the same year that [The Beatles' album] Sgt. Pepper came out," Clinton tells me.
Chaka Khan let slip in an interview with 'The Guardian' that a set of songs recorded by her, Prince, and Larry Graham has been "cleared." ...
"Once you get the funk out there, it's not going back. You can't put it back in the box," says filmmaker Stanley Nelson. His ...