Craig Charles curates a selection of the smoothest funk and soul classics to unwind to. With music from artists including ...

Expressive, versatile, and dripping in history - the fizzing frequencies of funk and the seductive sounds of soul are ever-alluring; and when all these sounds merge on a festival lineup, you can bet ...

One of Los Angeles’ most celebrated dance nights is cutting the music short in Echo Park on Saturday after 14 years of funk, soul and sweat. Organizers of the Echo’s monthly all-vinyl ‘60s soul bash ...

This is FRESH AIR. The band called The Internet released an album in 2015 called "Ego Death" that was nominated for a Grammy. The quintet, which specializes in danceable R&B, went on hiatus soon after ...

Though New Orleans’ jazz legacy is a well-documented and widely recognized phenomenon, local funk pioneers, for one reason or another, are not acknowledged nearly as much as their musical predecessors ...

Soul Clap have never been artists to stay in one lane. The US duo live their musical world in technicolour, blazing forward with a futuristic take on house music that encompasses all sounds funked-up ...

Craig Charles' new weekday show on 6 Music promises to offer an afternoon party that everyone's invited to. He'll be bringing some of the good times and great tunes that he's been beloved for every ...

In the early 1990s, two brothers and some friends in Munich formed the Poets of Rhythm, a band inspired by the "deep funk" sound of late-1960s James Brown, The Meters and similar groups. The Poets ...

(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 ...

The quintet known as The Internet emerged from the Los Angeles music collective Odd Future. Ken Tucker says their fourth album offers "music for modern lovers who are too smart to settle for less." ...