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P BS’s Independent Lens series tackles the history and cultural impact of funk music in its latest 90-minute documentary, We ...
Jackie Moore’s music has a way of staying with you long after the song ends. Maybe it’s the way she sings like she’s lived ...
Bootsy Collins, who released a new album, is the type of person who can illustrate an idea as if reading it from a tome of spells.
Twelve-year-old bass virtuoso Ellen Alaverdyan (better known as @ellenplaysbass on Instagram and YouTube) looks nervous as ...
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The man, the legend, Tallahassee’s own George Clinton talks about the 70th anniversary of Parliament Funkadelic.
Funk music was a bold sound that perfectly encapsulated post-civil rights Black Pride. 'We Want The Funk!' tells the story of ...
Some of the best funk songs of all time sound just as fresh as they did when they came out decades ago, which is beyond rare.
Langenu are a black metal band. On stage at Estonia’s Tallinn Music Week, they are fearsome. Blood-vessel-burstingly intense. Tempering their force with twists into progressive, psychedelic-adjacent ...
"Once you get the funk out there, it's not going back. You can't put it back in the box," says filmmaker Stanley Nelson. His ...
We Want the Funk!” shows how funk music fueled a pro-Black resistance in the face of racist repression — and may offer some lessons in fighting Trumpism.
This brisk 80-minute documentary is a wall-to-wall commemoration of a genre by the people who love it the most.