Amherst resident Luke Pernici has built a career around music, balancing regular performances across Northeast Ohio with ...

Wayne Bennett put a shine on beloved recordings by Otis Rush and Bobby “Blue” Bland, but he only cut one single under his own ...

The eight-piece Lynnwood band Cytrus have a hybrid sound that's as infectious as it is hard to define. Their music is ...

From country icons to funk legends, here are some of the Texas music figures who passed away in the past year. Houston jazz ...

Jacob and Owen Mahon of jam band Saltydog reflect on their musical journey ahead of album release in the new year.

The songwriter, two-time Grammy winner and Rock and Roll Hall of Famer riffed on “Soul Man,” “Green Onions” and “(Sittin’ on) the Dock of the Bay.” By Roy Trakin Steve Cropper, a founding member of ...

The foundations of funk were laid down in the mid-1960s, when James Brown began to emphasize the first beat of each measure in his stage-tested and frenzy-inducing R&B songs. Before the decade's end, ...

Funky Friday is a beatbox battle simulator developed by Lyte Interactive that is part of Roblox's Halloween Spotlight event. For this event, players must complete two challenges to earn a Rune and a ...

Between 1982 and 1984 Piper staged a series of events advertised as Funk Lessons which invited participants to learn about the dance styles culture and history of funk music As documented in a video ...

Cuban rapper Eliexer Márquez Duany, known as El Funky, one of the musicians who performed on Cuban protest anthem “Patria y Vida,” announced that his immigration case has been reopened after U.S.

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 ...