Yet, at the time, contemporary music fans simply experienced the decade as fertile ground for innovative musicians. Those 10 ...

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 ...

People think of Prince and they think ‘vocalist, songwriter, guitarist,’” he says, but, “his bass playing: bar none.” Turning ...

These disco one-hit wonders were huge hits back in the 1970s; and one can't help but wonder why the artists behind them ...

Whether you’re a music prodigy or you listen to Spotify for an hour a year, Telula is bound to wow you with their energy, ...

“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.

From the crucible of diverse styles that stirred in the streets of London in the ‘70s ... funk outfit fearlessly fused a vast array of influences into their subtly shapeshifting songs ...