Last month, the Brazilian artist Ludmilla made history: After powering through her hits during a breakout set at Coachella, she became the first Afro-Latina to perform at the music festival. She riled ...

God Made Me Funky's latest LP is simultaneously vintage and futuristic, as if the Toronto troop soundtracked a deliberately cheesy '80s sci-fi flick. The album, named Funky Fly 'N Free, begins with a ...

If there was a Mount Funkmore for the greatest funk bassists, Marcus Miller’s face and trademark porkpie hat would be sculpted into that musical monument. Miller honed his musical chops during funk’s ...

For years, I heard "Play That Funky Music" as some kind of statement of racial solidarity. The white boy singing the song, Wild Cherry frontman Rob Parissi, knew that nobody would expect a white boy ...

Funk music has had its own share of ups and downs in terms of audience popularity over the years and Hyderabadi bands too have been slow to embrace the genre. So, when a rare city band calls itself an ...