CJ Johnson’s gritty, raspy voice brings the sound of the Washington D.C.-based indie soul band alive. (Oh He Dead) New funk and soul bands are becoming increasingly rare and underappreciated. With ...

Mixing up the funk, soul, groove and jazz seemed pretty easy to The Addison Groove Project in its new album, Allophone. It is impressive in its attention to quality in both sound and design. After ...

“It’s funky. It’s just fun. I don’t know …It’s cool,” said Jake Keenan, a sophomore at Drexel University taking a stab at mixing funk tracks laid down 20 years before he was born. “It’s not really in ...

Early funk is often associated with the Godfather Of Soul James Brown, who helped pioneer this style of dance music in the late '60s and early '70s. The ubiquitous use of syncopation (playing on the ...

Back in the 20th Century when John Gros was enrolled in the George Porter, Jr. Academy of Funk as a member of the Runnin’ Pardners, he also held down a bread and butter gig playing for tourists at ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) Few artists have had a more significant influence on both funk and soul music than Larry Graham. As the pioneering bassist of Sly and the Family Stone and the dynamic frontman of ...

That statement sets the tone for Funk It Up & Punk It Up: Live in France '95, a release that captures one show in Lyon, France on a tour where frontman Mike Muir pulled double duty with his band ...