Playing tight enough to get loose, new local band Up on the Downbeat debuted their funky rhythms at the Dwight soccer pub and live music hub The Cannon Thursday night. Listening to their well-seasoned ...

NEWPORT, R.I. — The final day of the Newport Jazz Festival at Fort Adams State Park Sunday ended with an exuberant African dance party, courtesy of Angelique Kidjo, a woman who knows a thing or two ...

We Want the Funk!, an expansive, emotive, celebratory documentary looking at one of history's most important musical genres, begins simply. Legendary studio musician Marcus Miller picks up his bass ...

Multiple music arts grant-award winner Alexandra “Olenka" Gadzik emigrated from the Carpathian Mountains of Poland with her parents and sister in 1977. Growing up in multi-cultural New York City ...

The music world has lost a foundational figure of 1970s funk with the passing of Louis “Douaam” Villery Jr., the acclaimed ...

From top left to bottom right: Jamie xx (courtesy of Jamie xx), Peggy Gou (courtesy of Park Jongh Ha), Olan (courtesy of Meagan Rodriguez), Isoxo (courtesy of Isoxo) and Two Shell (courtesy of Two ...

Two's company and three's a crowd, but seven's heaven for Time Baby. Whether it's a silent compliment thrown in the direction of a fellow band member who just completed a nasty solo or a perma-smile ...

What happened when American Funk made it's way to Brazil? The answer is Baile Funk. What happened when American Funk made it's way to Brazil? The answer is Baile Funk. Arthur L.A. Buckner explores the ...

When George Clinton and his Parliament/Funkadelic crew sang “We want the funk, give up the funk!,” they were expressing a universal truth. Another word for funk is “the one,” the upbeat at the heart ...

Like most multi-day festivals with multiple stages, the Green River Festival promises a wide and diverse array of music for fans of all tastes and ages. This year’s Green River Festival (to be held ...

Dylan Wissing is a session drummer with a passion for meticulously duplicating famous rhythms. By Elisabeth Vincentelli Dylan Wissing has been making a living as a versatile session drummer since the ...