The funk comes to the Arkansas Sounds Concert Series on Friday during the Tribute to True Soul Records, the Little Rock label started by Lee Anthony that was home to many of the city's premier funk ...

Hector Gonzalez, pictured in 2013 in Santa Fe Springs, Calif., is the head of Rampart Records. The label which earned a measure of fame in the 1960s as the originator of the West Coast Eastside sound ...

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Though New Orleans’ jazz legacy is a well-documented and widely recognized phenomenon, local funk pioneers, for one reason or another, are not acknowledged nearly as much as their musical predecessors ...

Michael Sumler, who was the iconic stylist, promoter and choreographer for the group Kool & the Gang, died Sunday in a car crash in Georgia, the Los Angeles Times reported. He was 71. 11Alive, a news ...

But at least one 60s-originating trend has remained relevant today, and that’s funk, according to the Iowa City-based band FunkDaddies. Despite the pressures of the modern mainstream music industry, ...

One of Los Angeles’ most celebrated dance nights is cutting the music short in Echo Park on Saturday after 14 years of funk, soul and sweat. Organizers of the Echo’s monthly all-vinyl ‘60s soul bash ...

Adam P. Newton recently became a father for the first time, so he has decided to explain the entirety of post-WWII Western pop music to his new daughter, “Fig”…one genre at a time. What’s going on, ...

Musicians Nathan Link and Alex Emslie of the band Radio Veloso joined host Jessica Wills to chat about their music and the release of their first full album earlier this year “And Other Subjects.” ...

Sharon Jones, an iconic Grammy-nominated soul and funk singer who rose to fame relatively late in life, died on Friday of pancreatic cancer. She was 60. Jones, known for her high-spirited live shows, ...

MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO)-- Old-school funk and soul of the Twin Cities will be alive and well this weekend at the Dakota Jazz Club. On Friday and Saturday nights, the Secret Stash Soul Revue with Sonny ...