Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Singer LUDMILLA performs onstage during Weekend 2 - Day 3 of the Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival at Empire Polo Club on ...

In October the Wire published a primer on what it pronounced “the moment when Black music grew its Afro and took a lesson from hippy-rock, exploding into the Technicolor dream funk and proto-disco of ...

The Brazilian superstar started the global trek on May 18 at the Tecate Emblema festival in Mexico City. By Natalia Cano Brazilian superstar Anitta kicked off her Baile Funk Experience, a world tour ...

The Ohio Players is one of many funk groups from Dayton that took off in the 1970s and '80s. In the mid-1960s, James Brown was creating a new style of music — funk. Instead of turning elaborate ...

Funk music has had its own share of ups and downs in terms of audience popularity over the years and Hyderabadi bands too have been slow to embrace the genre. So, when a rare city band calls itself an ...

If there was a Mount Funkmore for the greatest funk bassists, Marcus Miller’s face and trademark porkpie hat would be sculpted into that musical monument. Miller honed his musical chops during funk’s ...

The syncopated story of funk music, from its roots to the explosion of '70s urban funk and beyond. WE WANT THE FUNK! is a syncopated voyage through the history of funk music, spanning from African, ...

Funk allowed Black musicians and their audiences to shapeshift and speak truth to power—even while speaking in tongues. But as Stanley Nelson and Nicole London’s documentary WE WANT THE FUNK! reveals, ...

Last month, the Brazilian artist Ludmilla made history: After powering through her hits during a breakout set at Coachella, she became the first Afro-Latina to perform at the music festival. She riled ...