Some of the most defining funk albums come from legends like Parliament, James Brown, Sly and the Family Stone, Betty Davis, ...

Funk songs really dominated the radio in the 1970s, and for good reason. Few genres that were popular at the time matched the danceable energy and uplifting lyricism that funk was known for. If you’re ...

Pop vocal trio the Bee Gees performing at the Music for UNICEF Concert at the United Nations General Assembly in New York City, January, 1979. The 1970s were an eclectic time for music and cultural ...

Back in 1999, the late Prince commented that sampling in the music industry was "getting out of hand," speculating that "pretty soon we'll be sampling the sample that was already sampled." The "Purple ...

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, ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Quentin Singer is music journalist who covers rock and heavy music. This article is more than 2 years old. Robert Plant and Jimmy ...

Denver funk band Wild Love Tigress formed when the world was about to end…or so people thought. It was 2012, and many were grappling with how the Mayan Long Count calendar ended on December 21; in ...

How to make old styles sound fresh? Dallas' Silver Skylarks give a master class on the topic on The Number One Set and Sound, a debut album fusing '60s soul, '70s funk and '90s hip-hop into one ...