Leo Nocentelli, featuring the sounds of the world-famous funk band, the Meters, will highlight the upcoming Funky Uncle-sponsored series during the 2023 Jazz Fest at Zony Mash Beer Project. for this ...

Houston's Tightn' Up! make music so funky, it's like they've reinvented the genre. Credit: Photo courtesy of Tightn' Up! It feels like forever ago when Craig of Heights Vinyl invited me to watch a ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Zebra. There was a time when we had to place great reliance on acoustic and simplistic synthetic instruments, to create the sounds ...

Each passing decade is accompanied by changes in popular music. Whether it’s new instruments or tools, altered voices or new ways to listen, the sound of songs changes to reflect modern culture. In ...

Get on up! What is it about James Brown's music that makes it sound so funky? James Brown, the Godfather of Soul, created the DNA for funk. Musicians LA Buckner and Nahre Sol explore how he created ...

You can certainly give a listen to two numbers by Lou Donaldson, 'Say It Loud [I Am Black & I'm Proud]' written by the R&B screamer James Brown and 'Don't Worry If There's A Hell Below' by the soul ...

Opening track “Smoke” starts out with Phair trilling over a poppy electronic beat and then segues into a cartoony skit, revealing that Phair knows her album won’t be well received with lines like ...

Since their first album, “Outta Here,” released in 2002, Lettuce has continued to make a name for itself within the funk scene. (Steven Pisano / Wikimedia Commons) “Cook,” the upcoming album of funk ...

Harvey Funkwalker played at Nowhere Bar for their first time earlier this year in March, bringing with it a rare jazz-funk sound. Now, the band is returning to Nowhere Bar for its first show after a ...

Music lovers are aware of Cincinnati’s great funk tradition, starting with James Brown’s recordings at King Records and later his work with back-up band The JB’s, featuring Bootsy Collins. In the ’70s ...