Last month, the Brazilian artist Ludmilla made history: After powering through her hits during a breakout set at Coachella, she became the first Afro-Latina to perform at the music festival. She riled ...

Funk Flex will take over mornings at Hot 97 in the wake of Ebro in the Morning ending. Radio Ink reports that MediaCo, the company that owns Hot 97, confirmed that Flex will be on during the day ...

Garry "Jellybean" Johnson, a funk rock musician best known as a founding member of the Prince-associated band The Time, has died. He was 69. Johnson, who turned 69 on Nov. 19, died on Friday, Nov. 21, ...

Marcia Perkins Funk, 83, formerly of Poquoson, VA (40 years) peacefully passed away on November 17, 2025. She joins her parents, Boies Penrose and Cynthia Etheridge Perkins, in heaven. We are ...

The foundations of funk were laid down in the mid-1960s, when James Brown began to emphasize the first beat of each measure in his stage-tested and frenzy-inducing R&B songs. Before the decade's end, ...

Syracuse, N.Y. — The music’s still funky, the waffles are still wild, and Guy Fieri is tuning in once again. Funk ’n Waffles will be featured on “Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives: Triple D Nation” this ...

Countries worldwide are buying more than ever from China, but domestic consumption is lagging and government stimulus efforts aren’t working. By Alexandra Stevenson Reporting from eastern China, ...

Uncle Kracker will headline the Woodstock Fair Main Stage on Sunday night, replacing Grand Funk Railroad. An announcement from the fair said Uncle Kracker will headline the main stage at 8 p.m. on ...

July 23 (Reuters) - India's power regulator on Wednesday said it had decided to begin implementing market coupling in a phased manner for electricity trading from January. Market coupling is an ...

Legendary drummer Don Brewer is bringing Homer Simpson's "favorite band of all time" to the Texas Roadhouse Free Concert Series at the 2025 Kentucky State Fair. That's right, Grand Funk Railroad, the ...

It was sometime in the latter part of the 1960s that R&B gave way to soul and, by extension, funk. It wasn't a scene so much at first as it was a grouping of like-minded artists taking their music to ...

David Mercer Funk, an attorney who had been Bryn Mawr School’s board chair, died of Parkinson’s disease complications June 2 at Sinai Hospital. The former Ruxton resident was 77. Born in Baltimore and ...