It makes perfect sense that there are two turntables behind the long, spacious bar at Junebug, the nineteenth concept from ...

DJ Funk, a Chicago-born musician and producer who coined the “ghetto house,” has died at age 54. Funk, whose real name was Charles Chambers, had been “bravely” battling stage 4 cancer ...

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 ...

Credited with bringing Chinese funk music to the mainstream through the group’s performances on iQIYI’s hit rock music show The Big Band, Ricky has garnered multiple comparisons to legendary musical ...

From pulsating big band funk to throbbing electro-soul jams and sizzling acid jazz grooves, Britfunk showed how British Black music reshaped its American influences. While punk and New Wave ...

Their beats became the mothership of hip-hop and dance music. Their live shows were legendary ... or rump-shaking as P-Funk, with an Afrofuturist philosophy of funk as the cosmic life force ...

Here are some tunes for throwing your very own Mardi Gras/Fat Tuesday celebration.

Cimafunk, a 35-year-old musician dubbed a "global ambassador" for Cuban music, has earned Grammy nominations three years in a row. Blending genres from Latin rock to Afro-Cuban funk, he creates ...

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In honor of Black History Month, The Current is exploring the origins of Black music in America, what came after, and how it has impacted the sounds of today. Today, let’s highlight some of the ...

Geoff Bennett: Latin rock, Afro Cuban funk and many other names have been applied to the music of Cimafunk. The 35-year-old star is now making waves around the world, earning Grammy nominations ...

The campaign read: “DJ Funk, a talented artist who has brought so much joy and inspiration to so many through his music, is now facing the heartbreaking reality of planning for his final farewell.