Leo Nocentelli, featuring the sounds of the world-famous funk band, the Meters, will highlight the upcoming Funky Uncle-sponsored series during the 2023 Jazz Fest at Zony Mash Beer Project. for this ...

Houston's Tightn' Up! make music so funky, it's like they've reinvented the genre. Credit: Photo courtesy of Tightn' Up! It feels like forever ago when Craig of Heights Vinyl invited me to watch a ...

There was a time when we had to place great reliance on acoustic and simplistic synthetic instruments, to create the sounds we wanted to hear in the production realm. One instrument which was always ...

The Red & Black is a 501c3 nonprofit. Please consider a one-time gift or become a monthly supporter. Cancel anytime. National Get Funky Day will be observed for the very first time on Thursday, Oct. 5 ...

The clavinet was an electric keyboard created by Hohner, a German company best known for its harmonicas. Its funky sound was widely used in the '70s. Stevie Wonder's Superstition, a chart-topping hit ...

Musicians used to argue that dance and electronica weren’t “real music,” but you don’t hear that opinion much anymore. Things have changed. Musicians are changing, and every day, another kid sells his ...

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Back in the summer of 2005, Drexel University’s Music Industry program got a very curious phone call. On the line was the owner of a storage facility in Philadelphia, wondering if ...

Get on up! What is it about James Brown's music that makes it sound so funky? James Brown, the Godfather of Soul, created the DNA for funk. Musicians LA Buckner and Nahre Sol explore how he created ...

Since their first album, “Outta Here,” released in 2002, Lettuce has continued to make a name for itself within the funk scene. (Steven Pisano / Wikimedia Commons) “Cook,” the upcoming album of funk ...

Opening track “Smoke” starts out with Phair trilling over a poppy electronic beat and then segues into a cartoony skit, revealing that Phair knows her album won’t be well received with lines like ...