The eight-piece Lynnwood band Cytrus have a hybrid sound that's as infectious as it is hard to define. Their music is ...

On today's show jazz and funk pianist Brian Culbertson talks about his upcoming jazz festival in Napa and the business of ...

After honing their live act for more than a year, the group is putting its carefully crafted funk on record — and playing the ...

From Ozzy Osbourne and Ace Frehley to Brian Wilson and Roberta Flack, the musicians and singers who died in 2025.

Parliament’s “Mothership Connection,” released 50 years ago this month, was a rococo musical milestone that bridged funk’s ...

Tokoroa band Collision's one self-titled album is regarded as an Antipodean classic of lost '70s funk. The roots of Collision ...

At the Bergen Performing Arts Center, in Englewood, New Jersey, the singer-songwriter Ben Folds sat at a piano and picked out the opening bars of “Kristine from the 7th Grade,” a delicate, mordantly ...

To the casual listener, William Earl “Bootsy” Collins might not be a household name. But chances are that you have danced to one of his bass lines at some point in your life. Gen X-ers may recognize ...

It’s been more than three months since Mark Farner’s American Band played a concert, so he’s amped for the next show on his calendar, a June 26 stop at Jergel’s Rhythm Grille in Warrendale. “When we ...

Sly Stone, a funk pioneer whose influence and impact as leader of the musical group Sly and the Family Stone was as enduring as his career was brief, died Monday at his home in Los Angeles. He was 82.

Sly and the Family Stone frontman Sly Stone has died, his family said in a statement Monday. He was 82. His family said Stone, whose real name was Sylvester Stewart, had chronic obstructive pulmonary ...