Back in 2005, Bass Player corralled Bootsy Collins, Fred Thomas, and Ray Brundidge, to dig into what it really meant to be a ...

Body Count singer and rapper Ice-T picks the records and artists he loves, and names the singer who almost guarantees ...

Tammi Brown — an award-winning jazz, gospel and R&B singer who was a fixture of Santa Cruz’s local music scene and performed ...

A new documentary examines the golden age of funk music, when large, often interracial bands lay down syncopated grooves that packed dance floors. John Blake says that today’s pop music, largely ...

Vinyl is a limited run of 100, cut and mastered pristine, with a 12” x 12” lyric insert on which White also details the album ...

The Godfather of Soul’s politics were a reflection of himself: a Black man who’d risen to superstardom out of the Jim Crow South. James Brown was the summation of Black American culture in ...

The Fountain of Rings in Atlanta's Centennial Olympic Park was closed for several months while under a $3.5 million renovation. It's back with new tech and new songs.

For 54 years, through raucous parties and life’s twists and turns, the author has rocked on with his band.

The son of Afrobeat pioneer Fela Kuti, Seun Kuti brings his father's longtime band Egypt 80 to San Francisco to headline the ...

We’ve been so very lucky to have had the Ace of Bass in our lives," the band wrote in an Instagram post announcing the ...

The 2024-25 UNC basketball season is in the books, and with that, it's time for our player season reviews for the campaign. We're continuing our review with James Brown. Coming into Chapel Hill as a 4 ...

From the golden age of rap to present day, look at (and listen to) some of the most iconic funk samples ever used in hip-hop, and watch WE WANT THE FUNK! on PBS.