Expressive, versatile, and dripping in history - the fizzing frequencies of funk and the seductive sounds of soul are ever-alluring; and when all these sounds merge on a festival lineup, you can bet ...

For the first time in a quarter century, Tony! Toni! Toné! — the Oakland, California, funk-soul trio of brothers D'wayne Wiggins and Raphael Saadiq, plus their cousin Timothy Riley — are doing it ...

It all came together in a matter of hours, according to Eugene musician Frank Visconti, trumpeter and manager with Natsukashii Soul, a brand-new jazz, R&B and funk quintet performing regularly in ...

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(ThyBlackMan.com) When discussing the great architects of modern R&B, funk, and soul, The Commodores deserve a place near the top of the conversation. Emerging in the early 1970s from Tuskegee, ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) There’s something magical about George Duke’s music that’s hard to put into words—but you feel it. Whether he’s laying down a slick funk groove or caressing a melody on the piano, ...

Award-winning UK festival Farmfest has been going since 2006 now and in that time has grown from a large party for 400 people into a rave-sized gathering for around 5,000 good-time folk. Despite its ...

Soul Clap have never been artists to stay in one lane. The US duo live their musical world in technicolour, blazing forward with a futuristic take on house music that encompasses all sounds funked-up ...