Music legend George Clinton, who continues to tour the world performing funk-filled concerts, will be honoured for his contribution to music this fall in New York. Performing rights organization Broadcast Music,...
Photo by Mike Clark "1Day" by Michael Dean Last week, I 40-year-old Renton man Michael Dean, sort of like Christopher Columbus discovered America. Dean has history here, but I didn't know about it. Hipped to his , I went on about "," a chilled-out funk number with...
Photo: Jiro Schneider Hanson have been striving to integrate the smooth music they grew up on — Billy Joel, Steve Winwood and classic Stax and Motown records — into their pop-rock sound, and on their upcoming fifth album Shout It Out (due June 1st) the trio...
NASHVILLE (Billboard) – Long before he was the Grammy Award-winning solo artist TobyMac, Toby McKeehan, one-third of pioneering Christianrapgroup dcTalk, was well known for upsetting the status quo in Christian music. With the February 9 release of his fourth...
George Clinton will perform at Chicago's Cubby Bear. AP Photo Legendary funk artists George Clinton and Parliament/Funkadelic are bringing their tour to Chicago for a stop at Cubby Bear in Wrigleyville on February 12....
Who: Los Angeles funk connoisseur Dam-Funk, a one-man wrecking crew of thumping beats, smooth bass and iced-out synths. After honing his craft as a session musician for rappers like Ice Cube, remixing acts like Animal Collective and becoming an MVP on the DJ circuit,...
His name is Nick and he is funky. OK, maybe Nick Jonas isn’t completely funky, but he’s working up to it. You won’t catch the youngest Jonas in head-to-toe purple or getting freaky with his guitar (at least not yet). But the Jo Bro’s first solo...
...and also , , and . That's soul/funk, country-rock, indie-pop, and hiphop, all by local artists. The music will be free but the food costs money at McGinn's party, which is set to start at 7:30 pm Saturday, Jan. 9 at . The main draw of the evening should be the...
(AP) — American R&B pioneers Kool & the Gang helped Cuba get its funk on, bringing their eclectic mix of sounds Sunday to an open-air stage a stone's throw from the sparkling waters of the Caribbean. Robert "Kool" Bell," his brother Khalis Bayyan, saxophonist...
1. STEVE LEHMAN OCTET "Travail, Transformation and Flow" (Pi) The year's head-spinning jazz release came from the alto saxophonist Steve Lehman, who employed spectrum analysis as a compositional tool. That might have been a liability if the album weren't such a...
Bassist Mark King of Level 42 (here in his "Something About You" musicvideo) perfected slap-pop. Flickr ilovecoffeeyesido If you like this ... Seawind’s ‘Reunion’ CD hits all the right jazz notes The Rock – bassist Geoff Cooke happily plays supporting role...