Rock Candy Funk Party (RCFP) is a collection of groove loving musicians bringing a fresh and funky vibe to the world of jazz. The band formed around 2009 when drummer Tal Bergman and guitarist Ron ...

Bass Week: The word ‘funk’ or ‘funky’ can be applied to almost anything, from butt-shaking basslines to scatter cushions. We all instinctively know what’s implied, but in a bass playing sense, what ...

In his ’70s prime, George Clinton revolutionized the art of modern funk while leading two distinct recording outfits, Parliament and Funkadelic, touring with a flying saucer (called the Mothership) ...

Funk tracks where a band comes together in a fusion of instrument driven harmony always brings out a different side to breakers. Making breakers want to top rock a little more and shake their ...

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, ...

James Brown once said, "I've only got seventh grade education, but I have a doctorate in funk, and I like to put that to good use." While artists like Brown, George Clinton and Morris Day have ...

The arrival of these two compilations of 1970s jazz/funk begs one simple question: what took RCA so long? The fact that the mini-revival known as acid jazz peaked about five years ago puts these ...

The folks at HumaNature Studios have taken a crack at reviving a 16-bit classic. Check out our review of ToeJam & Earl: Back in the Groove. ToeJam & Earl was released in 1991 on Sega Genesis and the ...

Craig Rosen discovered go-go at a men’s room in Union Station. Returning home from Wisconsin’s Lawrence University in 1981, he stopped to use the bathroom. There, he noticed scrawled graffiti on the ...

When you see a record and it has a track called Boogie On Up, it’s not going to be country and Irish A pair of Cork-based crate diggers have assembled a wonderfully-titled compilation of Irish funk ...