On today's show jazz and funk pianist Brian Culbertson talks about his upcoming jazz festival in Napa and the business of ...

As another year dawns in Music City, emerging artists and legendary talents will continue to take the Nashville stages. Let's ...

Comprised of guitarist James Moor, bassist Nathan Camp, and drummer Jonah Gillespie-Sickmen, the group marries alt-rock with ...

OXON HILL, MD – There are joyful concert experiences, and then there is Earth, Wind & Fire. After 55 years, they are still the mightiest of elements on stage, captivating with pinpoint harmonies, ...

A legendary funk and R&B singer is dead at age 72. Carl Carlton, the voice of 1970s and ‘80s hits like “Everlasting Love” and “She’s a Bad Mama Jama,” died Sunday, according to his son. A cause of ...

Spearheaded by the club smash “Rump Shaker,” Wreckx-n-Effect’s 1992 album Hard Or Smooth is a crucial part of the New Jack Swing story. Executive produced by Teddy Riley, the album fused contemporary ...

The foundations of funk were laid down in the mid-1960s, when James Brown began to emphasize the first beat of each measure in his stage-tested and frenzy-inducing R&B songs. Before the decade's end, ...

Watergate had shaken the nation. Gerald Ford was completing the third year of what would have been Richard Nixon’s second presidential term, had he not resigned in disgrace. The Vietnam War was ...

Ivan Neville was in high school when The Wild Tchoupitoulas recorded its seminal 1976 album at Sea-Saint Studios. He can’t remember if he had visited the studio during those sessions — maybe he had ...

When Cymande released their self-titled debut album in 1972, their unique blend of calypso, reggae, funk and jazz struck a chord with American audiences. Back home in the U.K., the band was largely ...

Hector Garcia grew up in Los Angeles, raised on the sounds of funk music. He memorized the hip slang and lyrics of funk legend George Clinton, founder of the Parliament-Funkadelic collective along ...