Funk is more than sound. It’s an ethos — and no one embodies it better than Los Angeles-based musician Dâm-Funk. Dâm Funk constructs grooves from primitive drum machines and saturates them with ...

Yes, Robert Trujillo is known as one of the sickest bassist in metal, but part of what makes the Metallica musician so is a well-rounded appreciation for music that started with a full-fledged love of ...

From rock and metal crossovers to jazz-funk virtuosos, the best funk supergroups brought serious musical talent and propulsive grooves.

For the audio examples of the funk grooves click here With funk guitar, rhythmic grooves and chords are king. It plays an integral rhythmic role alongside the bass guitar and drums in a band, and ...

“‘Can’t’ is dead,” proclaims Kirk Gavin III, co-frontman and founder of one of Tallahassee’s premier funk bands, Pharaohs of Funk. He says that he was first introduced to this motivating phrase as a ...

If you could put James Brown, Herbie Hancock, Joe Satriani, Galactic, Medeski Martin & Wood, Soulive and the Heavy in a blender, you might wind up with Rock Candy Funk Party, whose music sounds ...

Throughout the 1970s, the midwest would prove to be a hotbed for great funk music, with the state of Ohio alone delivering artists like Catfish and Bootsy Collins, the Dazz Band, Zapp and The Ohio ...

In October of 1991, an unknown band calling themselves the Infectious Grooves arrived like a breath of fresh air with a debut album called The Plague That Makes Your Booty Move...Its the Infectious ...

The vision of late 1960s and early '70s Seattle R&B as laid out by Light in the Attic's 2005 comp Wheedle's Groove permeated everything in reach of your speakers, and this collection proves that ...

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