When we hear modern music echoing the 1970s, we often describe it as retro. But pulling classic sounds into a new era is easier when the music you borrow from is groundbreaking funk. Funk and soul ...

The thought of dancing to a funk song isn’t a radical idea. However, not all funk is the same. There are some tunes so funky they’ll even inspire the stiffest wallflowers to move. Head to the dance ...

Football and funk will go hand in hand this September, as the Southern Heritage Classic organization has announced its Classic Funk Fest. The concert event, set for Sept. 9 at the Landers Center in ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Credit: Getty Images, Walter Looss Jr. Hard times often lead to great music, and that's never truer than in 1960s and '70s America ...

Funk tracks where a band comes together in a fusion of instrument driven harmony always brings out a different side to breakers. Making breakers want to top rock a little more and shake their ...

This article was originally published in August 2005. In rendering his decision in a 1964 obscenity trial, Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart wrote: "I shall not today attempt to further define ...

They broke up in 1975, but their breaks kept returning to the charts in hits by De La Soul, the Fugees and many others. Now a new documentary is telling their remarkable story Some time in the late ...

The words Funk and Cabaret are hardly ever heard together in the same sentence. But Signature Theatre has developed a number of entertaining cabaret shows over the years covering soul and Motown over ...

There are two sides to the Cuban artist Erik Iglesias Rodríguez, who performs as Cimafunk. "Cima" is an homage to the cimarrón, a word that refers to Cubans of African descent who escaped enslavement.