There's a special vibe about funk. It's often not considered as virtuosic as rock, as emotive as blues or as intimate as folk. Rather, its selling point is all about the groove. Core to this is the ...
Early funk is often associated with the Godfather Of Soul James Brown, who helped pioneer this style of dance music in the late '60s and early '70s. The ubiquitous use of syncopation (playing on the ...
From a lifetime of breaking boundaries, leading an award-winning, DC-based hip-hop/fusion band, Miscellaneous Flux, and collaborating with numerous musical pioneers (Vernon Reid, Burnt Sugar: The ...
In strictly musical terms, funk was the ‘70s child of ‘60s R&B; and rock. Funk adopted rock’s preference for emphasis on the downbeat, grafted on slinky R&B; syncopation and elevated the bass to ...
From a lifetime of breaking boundaries, leading an award-winning, DC-based hip-hop/fusion band, Miscellaneous Flux, and collaborating with numerous musical pioneers, guitarist Ben Tyree, at last, ...
Guitar gods of North Africa bring their hypnotic trance to these shores in summer Tinariwen Tinariwen. Photo: Eric Chute Tinariwen in the USA Tinariwen at Electric Picnic in 2008. Photo: PA Tinariwen ...
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 ...
Dave Pehling is website managing editor for CBS Bay Area. He started his journalism career doing freelance writing about music in the late 1990s, eventually working as a web writer, editor and ...
Some results have been hidden because they may be inaccessible to you
Show inaccessible results
Feedback