When Mark Ronson and Bruno Mars accepted the Grammy Award for Record of the Year for “Uptown Funk” in 2016, Ronson made a point of thanking producers and songwriters Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis during ...

The Brazilian superstar started the global trek on May 18 at the Tecate Emblema festival in Mexico City. By Natalia Cano Brazilian superstar Anitta kicked off her Baile Funk Experience, a world tour ...

In October the Wire published a primer on what it pronounced “the moment when Black music grew its Afro and took a lesson from hippy-rock, exploding into the Technicolor dream funk and proto-disco of ...

When I listen to William Onyeabor’s albums, I feel like he never made a bad song. Every song is better than the last. A funk musician from Nigeria, Onyeabor self-released eight albums in the 70’s and ...