this audio or video is no longer availableFor over a decade, UK electronic music specialist The Herbaliser has crafted expansive hip-hop instrumentals and hybrid funk and soul that has charmed the ...

“Cook,” the upcoming album of funk band Lettuce, expands the group’s musical repertoire through experimentation with new ...

The New Mastersounds said Ta-Ta For Now to a packed house at Portland’s Wonder Ballroom, marking one of the final stops on the British soul-jazz quartet’s farewell U.S. tour. After more than two ...

Founded by Searight and Nate Werth in 2015 as a drum and percussion duo, Ghost-Note has evolved into a super group, much like ...

Sure Fire Soul Ensemble, from San Diego, is one of the most talented new bands on the West Coast. The group mixes funk, soul, jazz, Latin & African influences to create unique, exciting music. Their ...

It has taken a decade between Memphis instrumental outfit The City Champs’ first one-two punch of releases in 2009-2010 and this follow-up. Why the wait? The threesome of music veterans has been busy ...

SAN FRANCISCO (CBS SF) -- One of most legendary British funk outfits of the 1970s that made a surprise return to activity several years ago plays its first San Francisco show in decades when Cymande ...

If that doesn’t seem like a logical pairing to you, you’re hardly to be blamed, but since the mid-1960s musicians from Jamaica and other West Indian nations carved out a scene for themselves in ...

The foundations of funk were laid down in the mid-1960s, when James Brown began to emphasize the first beat of each measure ...