The 1960s was a melting pot of musical innovation, with multiple genres forming, growing and progressing simultaneously in often completely different directions. Funk music started to emerge in ...

The British group with Caribbean roots stopped performing in 1974. Its slow-rolling comeback is realized on Friday with a new ...

Atif Aslam's burst of talent in both his studio albums and onstage is undeniable. And let it be known that the versatile ...

This week, we take a look at the life of Betty Davis, the unapologetically sexual funk-soul singer who paved the way for Rihanna. “I said you said I was an evil wench, oh/Didn’t ya ...

Before that, Miller, Baker and Felts had been leaning more toward blues music. Then, after they'd been playing house shows, a woman approached them and suggested they move toward funk.

The Blues. Jazz. Gospel. Soul. R&B. Funk. Rap. So much of the greatest music ever made was born and raised in the American South. Black musicians in the Jim Crow South entertained on the so-called ...