Steve Washington, the influential funk trumpeter and co-founder of the seminal groups Slave and Aurra, has died at the age of ...

DAYTON, Ohio (WDTN) – Funk music artists with ties to Dayton have connections to thousands of songs, leaving behind a proud history of funk music in the city. Dayton is known as the funk capital of ...

Kali Bowyer, a representative for the long-defunct three-piece rap group, claims there are notable similarities between The Sequence’s 1979 hit Funk You Up and the 2014 smash hit, which recently won a ...

Prince performs during the "Pepsi Halftime Show" at Super Bowl XLI between the Indianapolis Colts and the Chicago Bears on Feb. 4, 2007 at Dolphin Stadium in Miami Gardens, Florida. (Jonathan ...

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, ...

Warning: Don’t click on the embedded video above unless you want to have this song stuck in your head for days. “Karma Chameleon” by Culture Club is, in my opinion, the catchiest earworm song of the ...

Go-go music is the soundtrack of Washington, D.C. Despite a four-decade history and a few national hits like “Da Butt,” by Experience Unlimited (E.U.), and “Shake Your Thang,” by Salt-N-Pepa with E.U.

(ThyBlackMan.com) Dynasty may not have received the same mainstream saturation as some of their R&B and funk contemporaries, but for those who know, their discography is pure gold. Emerging from the ...