FSU Department of Music Faculty Artist Series presents Peter B. Lewis (string bass), joined by music colleagues (both faculty ...

We Want The Funk!, a documentary exploring the Funk genre that defined the 1970s, is now airing on PBS. Set against the backdrop of the post-civil rights Black community, director Stanley Nelson and ...

Grammy Award-winning funk legends Kool & the Gang become the newest announced show headed to Roanoke Island Festival Park for ...

P BS’s Independent Lens series tackles the history and cultural impact of funk music in its latest 90-minute documentary, We ...

Sound Check is the Globe’s weekly guide to concerts, tunes, and trends rooted in Boston and beyond. This column covers April ...

When the legendary Bootsy Collins releases a record, you know it will be a funky party and Album of the Year #1 Funkateer is no exception. Collins maybe ...

A new documentary examines the golden age of funk music, when large, often interracial bands lay down syncopated grooves that packed dance floors. John Blake says that today’s pop music, largely ...

But that’s the thing about funk music. You see the joy and the love on their faces. When Kirk Franklin plays a little bit of P-Funk or “Bennie and the Jets,” there’s joy. When Carlos ...

regardless of the complexity of the riffs that come out of his bass the goal of Larry C. Humphrey’s life in funk has the same rock-solid purpose for him as for his fans. If you follow these ...

Masking is his latest EP and the title cut opens with dirty, swampy bass and percolating drum funk. 'Ziggurat' slows down but has real creepiness in the gurgling low end and insistent loops up top.