Dave Pehling is website managing editor for CBS Bay Area. He started his journalism career doing freelance writing about music in the late 1990s, eventually working as a web writer, editor and ...

Bass Week: The word ‘funk’ or ‘funky’ can be applied to almost anything, from butt-shaking basslines to scatter cushions. We all instinctively know what’s implied, but in a bass playing sense, what ...

The spirit of Throwback Thursday is alive and well in Minnesota's Twin Cities. Packed onto the dance floors of Minneapolis and St. Paul clubs, a small but passionate circuit of r&b revivalists has ...

Everything I Do Gonna Be Funky (From Now On); Let Me Lay My Funk On You; Funky Junk; Down Home Funk; Loft Funk; God Make Me Funky; Cosmic Funk; Who Got De Funk?, Part 2; Canned Funk; Feeling Funky; ...

The title of this superb anthology of rare furious grooves from Florida speaks for itself. There are tons of righteous soul, hard-kickin’ drum breaks, James Brown-influenced grooves, and a whole lot ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) There’s something magical about George Duke’s music that’s hard to put into words—but you feel it. Whether he’s laying down a slick funk groove or caressing a melody on the piano, ...

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The vision of late 1960s and early '70s Seattle R&B as laid out by Light in the Attic's 2005 comp Wheedle's Groove permeated everything in reach of your speakers, and this collection proves that ...