Funk Wav Bounces Vol 1 marks the 10th anniversary of Calvin Harris’s first album, I Created Disco. Back then he was living with his parents in Dumfries, fending off his father’s suggestions he become ...

Each passing decade is accompanied by changes in popular music. Whether it’s new instruments or tools, altered voices or new ways to listen, the sound of songs changes to reflect modern culture. In ...

Funkadelic and David Bowie combined experimentation and genre-bending elements in funk rock to craft some of the best ...

In 1992, Dr. Dre released his masterpiece The Chronic and ushered in a new sound and subgenre called G-Funk. The sound incorporated 1970s funk grooves - inspired by Parliament-Funkadelic and Zapp ...

The West Coast MC linked up with the funk pioneer to try and rectify G-Funk with their collab album Generation P.

Funk is more than sound. It’s an ethos — and no one embodies it better than Los Angeles-based musician Dâm-Funk. Dâm Funk constructs grooves from primitive drum machines and saturates them with ...

The Song That Changed My Life is a segment that gives us the chance to talk with some of our favorite artists about the music that made them who they are today. This time around we're joined by ...

A simple yet profound question: What does funk mean in 2017? Historically, it’s existed as a vessel of expression for working-class communities, particularly across the black African diaspora. In ...

Exhibition puts music previously shunned by elites as ‘stuff of outlaws’ in long tradition of black culture and resistance Hebert Amorim was eight when he got his first taste of funk carioca (Rio funk ...