The early '90s were a pretty funky time. The president played saxophone; The Fresh Prince of Bel Air was burning up the airwaves; the Red Hot Chili Peppers had just released Blood Sugar Sex Magik. A ...

Not long after Thomas Bangalter and Guy-Manuel De Homem-Christo started recording and performing as the house music duo Daft Punk, they began wearing masks during their public appearances, adding a ...

Emblazoned across the wall adjacent to the stage were trippy colors flowing back and forth between audience and performer. On the docket for the night were California-based funk bands Atta Kid and ...

The classically-trained percussionist has evolved from a punk-funk wild man into an improvisational innovator. This year, Mike Dillon released what may be the best album of his career. Mike Dillon’s ...

Gang of Four earned a rep as rock's foremost Marxist apologists in the post-punk era—while signed to übercapitalistic corporations like EMI in the UK and Warner Bros. in the US. Whether you call that ...

“I don’t think we competed in the pop market—ever; we have our own little niche.” So says Bush Tetras singer Cynthia Sley, looking back on the edgy, punk-funk band she, guitarist Pat Place, bassist ...

"To be a punk means freedom." So said singer-guitarist Mark Perro of Brooklyn rock band The Men. His band came up in the local hardcore punk scene, but had recently started adding pedal steel and ...

Rock-and-roll music was a monstrously renegade force back in the 1950s, driving parents of teenagers to their martini shakers and ministers to their pulpits to proclaim the end of morality and ...