When we hear modern music echoing the 1970s, we often describe it as retro. But pulling classic sounds into a new era is easier when the music you borrow from is groundbreaking funk. Funk and soul ...

From Donald Byrd and Eddie Harris to Miles Davis and Herbie Hancock, the OGs of Jazz Funk Laid Down A Blueprint for Jam Jazz ...

The thought of dancing to a funk song isn’t a radical idea. However, not all funk is the same. There are some tunes so funky they’ll even inspire the stiffest wallflowers to move. Head to the dance ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Credit: Getty Images, Walter Looss Jr. Hard times often lead to great music, and that's never truer than in 1960s and '70s America ...

This article was originally published in August 2005. In rendering his decision in a 1964 obscenity trial, Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart wrote: "I shall not today attempt to further define ...

Football and funk will go hand in hand this September, as the Southern Heritage Classic organization has announced its Classic Funk Fest. The concert event, set for Sept. 9 at the Landers Center in ...

Few sounds can match the inspiring freedom of funk, and one of the genre's most iconic and enduring bands is still influencing rock and pop stars today.

The world is chock-full of everyday people, but there can only ever be one Sly Stone. His ability to combine and synthesize a wide variety of genres made him a pioneer across the musical landscape, ...

Funk tracks where a band comes together in a fusion of instrument driven harmony always brings out a different side to breakers. Making breakers want to top rock a little more and shake their ...

If you feel it, you know it, and you certainly can't fake it. It's funk, that infectious groove that blends elements of soul, jazz, gospel, R&B, and rock into a sound that gets you up out of your seat ...

My favorite funk and R&B tracks have active bass parts that are creative but also disciplined. The discipline of what makes funk funk is the exact opposite of what makes jazz jazz. As jazz bass ...

But ‘Funk #49’—the first song on the band’s second album, 1970’s ‘James Gang Rides Again’—cements their place in classic-rock circles. The song’s enduring popularity has everything to do with Walsh’s ...