Funk

Funk Soul 

Stevie Wonder’s Declaration of Independence

September 30, 2026September 30, 2026 Kara Tucker 0 Comments 1976, 50th anniversary, As, Berry Gordy, Coolio, Greg Phillinganes, Herbie Hancock, I Wish, Isn't She Lovely, Ronnie Foster, Songs In The Key Of Life, Stevie Wonder

How ‘Songs in the Key of Life’ ushered in a new creative era

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Funk Soul 

Artists Praise ‘Songs in the Key of Life’ for its 50th Anniversary

September 28, 2026September 28, 2026 Ron Hart 0 Comments 1976, 50th anniversary, Arima Ederra, Chastity Brown, Motown Records, Niia, Saul Williams, Songs In The Key Of Life, Stevie Wonder, the black watch

Modern acts look back on Stevie Wonder’s singular masterpiece

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Funk Rock Soul 

Funkadelic’s ‘Maggot Brain’ Rises Again

September 13, 2026September 13, 2026 Ron Hart 0 Comments 1971, Bernie Worrell, Billy Nelson, Eddie Hazel, Flea, Funkadelic, George Clinton, J Mascis, Maggot Brain, Mike Watt, ORG Music, Tawl Ross, Tiki Fulwood, Westbound Records

Inside Org Music’s excellent new reissue

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Dance Funk Hip Hop New Wave Pop 

Tom Tom Club Delivers Definitive Box Set

August 10, 2026August 10, 2026 Ron Hart 0 Comments Chris Frantz, Genius of Love, Let There Be Love, Talking Heads, Tina Weymouth, Tom Tom Club

‘Let There Be Love’ out now on Rhino

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Funk Fusion jazz 

How Herbie Hancock Turned up the Heat in New Jersey

August 2, 2026 Jim Allen 0 Comments 2026, Headhunters, Herbie Hancock, James Genus, Jaylen Petinaud, Lionel Loueke, New Jersey, Newark, NJPAC, Terence Blanchard

The jazz/funk/fusion legend left it all on the NJPAC stage

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Funk Indie Rock Rock Soul 

Five Door Sedan Drops ‘Everything’

July 27, 2026 Ron Hart 0 Comments 2026, Charleston, Everything, Five Door Sedan, Hall and Oates, South Carolina, Steely Dan

Sophomore LP out in October 

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Funk 

Andre Cymone Shares ‘Stone in Love’

July 23, 2026July 23, 2026 Ron Hart 0 Comments Adam Ant, Andre Cymone, Evelyn “Champagne” King, James Ingram, Jody Watley, Minneapolis, Pebbles, Prince, Stone in Love, The Resurrection of Funk

New LP, The Resurrection of Funk, out in August

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Funk Soul 

Brooklyn Funk Essentials Return with ‘Black Butterfly’

May 19, 2026 Ron Hart 0 Comments 2026, Arthur Baker, Black Butterfly, Brooklyn, Brooklyn Funk Essentials, Dorado Records, Lati Kronlund, Sweden

Catching up with bassist Lati Kronlund about the band’s 8th LP

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Folk Funk Fusion Gospel Hip Hop Indie Rock Pop 

David Byrne Hits the Zeitgeist in Boston

October 6, 2025October 6, 2025 Jim Sullivan 0 Comments 2025, Boch-Wang Theater, David Byrne, Matador Records, Talking Heads, Who Is The Sky?

A dispatch from the Who Is The Sky? Tour at the Boch-Wang Theater

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Alternative Rock Funk Punk Rock Ska Soul 

Fishbone: Back to Ground Zero

June 26, 2025June 27, 2025 Katherine Yeske Taylor 0 Comments 2025, Angelo Moore, Fishbone, In Your Face, Racist Piece of Shit, ska, Stockholm Syndrome, The Reality of My Surroundings, Truth and Soul

Angelo Moore talks about overcoming ‘Stockholm Syndrome’

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Funk Remembrance Soul 

Forever Fresh: Sly Stone Remembered

June 11, 2025June 11, 2025 Kara Tucker 0 Comments Beastie Boys, Cynthia Robinson, Graham Central Station, Greg Errico, Larry Graham, Lil Wayne, RIP, Sly and the Family Stone, Sly Stone, Sylvester Stewart, The Viscaynes

The funk/soul genius died this week at 82

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Funk Soul 

Early Sly & The Family Stone Performance Tapped for Release 

June 8, 2025June 9, 2025 Ron Hart 0 Comments 1967, High Moon Records, reissue, Sly and the Family Stone, Sly Stone, The First Family: Live at Winchester Cathedral 1967

Live at Winchester Cathedral 1967 out July 18

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Funk Fusion jazz 

Vince Guaraldi and the Easter Beagle Boogie

April 20, 2025April 20, 2025 Ron Hart 0 Comments 2025, Charlie Brown!, Easter, It's the Easter Beagle, Jazz, Lee Mendelson Film Productions, Vince Guaraldi

When Charlie Brown and the gang got funky

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Dub/Reggae Funk Instrumental jazz Soul 

Apifera Have Arrived

October 24, 2024 Ron Hart 0 Comments 2024, Apifera, Frankie Reyes, Keep The Outside Open, Public Records, Stones Throw Records

Catching up with the Stones Throw supergroup

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Funk 

King Pari Announces Debut LP, There It Goes

August 7, 2024August 7, 2024 Ron Hart 0 Comments 2024, Cameron Kinghor, Joe Paris Christensen, King Pari, Prince, Stones Throw Records

Album out October 18th on Stones Throw Records; watch the video for new single, “Bag. Full. Of. Cash.,” below 

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