swaggering funk. ‘When my time finally comes, I’ll be ready’, intones Bobby Gillespie who sang the upbeat, darkly humorous ...

Quincy Jones’ gilded discography spanned jazz, pop and rock — and collaborations with Michael Jackson, Frank Sinatra and countless others. Start with these gems.

As you will see in the below list of the Top 50 New Wave Songs, chosen by the UCR staff, many of these tracks would fit comfortably within other playlists from the era, not just punk, but also pop, ...

The best funk albums ever made have one thing ... records in the early 70s, before quietly disappearing from the music business. Having formed a teenage band with Neil Young, Rick James, the ...

“Y’all ready to get hot?” emcee Micael Priest asks the crowd. It is the late 1970s in Austin and young funk group Extreme ...

Disney/Randy Holmes Eddie Murphy has reportedly signed on to play a funk music icon on screen. Variety reports that the actor ...

George Clinton is widely known as the “Godfather of Funk”, and for good reason. Clinton started his music career in doo-wop groups as a teenager before becoming a songwriter for Motown.

Bowie and Petty loved him, Jagger danced onstage with him, Slash jammed with him – this how Lenny Kravitz’s retro mix of rock ...

Credited with bringing Chinese funk music to the mainstream through the group’s performances on iQIYI’s hit rock music show The Big Band, Ricky has garnered multiple comparisons to legendary musical ...

Quincy Jones bridged the gaps between jazz, pop, rock, gospel, rhythm & blues, hip-hop, and beyond. Here are some ways he ...

Emerging German artist Flo Naegeli has released his new EP, It's Getting Better. We asked him the BIG questions . . .

Parliament-Funkadelic, the 70s masterfunkers ... only so much Uncle Jam could cope with. And music was moving fast, with rap and electro trouncing funk as the kids’ choice, while even mainstream ...