The immersive production 'Brassroots District: LA '74,' set in the heart of the 1970s funk scene, has extended its Los Angeles run through June 27 after strong audience turnout. Initially planned as ...

Pop vocal trio the Bee Gees performing at the Music for UNICEF Concert at the United Nations General Assembly in New York City, January, 1979. The 1970s were an eclectic time for music and cultural ...

How to make old styles sound fresh? Dallas' Silver Skylarks give a master class on the topic on The Number One Set and Sound, a debut album fusing '60s soul, '70s funk and '90s hip-hop into one ...

The dynamic story of funk music, from early roots to the explosion of '70s urban funk to influences. We Want the Funk is a syncopated voyage through the history of funk music, spanning from African, ...

Denver funk band Wild Love Tigress formed when the world was about to end…or so people thought. It was 2012, and many were grappling with how the Mayan Long Count calendar ended on December 21; in ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Billy Bass, born William Nelson, Jr., and the founding bassist of Parliament–Funkadelic, died on Saturday, February 1, at 75.

Born from the collision of funk’s irresistible grooves and psychedelic rock’s mind-expanding textures, psychedelic funk reshaped music in the late ’60s and ’70s. Acts like Parliament-Funkadelic turned ...

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