this audio or video is no longer availableFor over a decade, UK electronic music specialist The Herbaliser has crafted expansive hip-hop instrumentals and hybrid funk and soul that has charmed the ...

It has taken a decade between Memphis instrumental outfit The City Champs’ first one-two punch of releases in 2009-2010 and this follow-up. Why the wait? The threesome of music veterans has been busy ...

Sure Fire Soul Ensemble, from San Diego, is one of the most talented new bands on the West Coast. Mixing funk, soul, jazz, and Latin & African influences to create unique, exciting music... their ...

From NPR News, this is ALL THINGS CONSIDERED. I'm Melissa Block. MICHELE NORRIS, host: And I'm Michele Norris. The trio Soulive is on a mission to bring jazz back to the dance floor by mixing it up ...

If that doesn’t seem like a logical pairing to you, you’re hardly to be blamed, but since the mid-1960s musicians from Jamaica and other West Indian nations carved out a scene for themselves in ...

From playings OG tracks like All News is Good News and Daylight Savings to Washing Days, their take to instrumental soul and funk music - marked by punchy drum beats, guitar sounds and keys - had the ...

I could live 10 lives and still not hear half of the worthwhile music that's out there. It's a wonderful yet frustrating feeling. Looking at the rows of funk compilations at Chicago's Dusty Groove ...

Keyboardist/singer/songwriter Neal Francis was already a veteran upon the release of his critically acclaimed 2019 debut. He started as a dedicated blues pianist ...

The foundations of funk were laid down in the mid-1960s, when James Brown began to emphasize the first beat of each measure in his stage-tested and frenzy-inducing R&B songs. Before the decade’s end, ...