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

The great grandfather, who paved the way for the likes of Prince and the Red Hot Chili Peppers, plays Houston's House of ...

The world of music is in shock over the death of Mani, the much-loved Manchester musician who not only transformed two iconic ...

Ghost-Note stopped by NPR's headquarters in Washington, D.C., for an especially funky and soulful Tiny Desk Concert.

The Indiana Music History Project is rolling out an online collection of 50 video interviews with prominent Hoosiers.

Philly’s real soundtrack is bigger, louder, weirder, and impossible to pin to one hit. In a new anthology, music impresario ...

For decades, It’s My Thing has been spoken about as an appendage of James Brown’s empire — a fiery dispatch from the ...

When discussing the best classic rock song from every year of the 1960s, classics like "Paint It Black" and "The End" are ...

DJs and MCs are more than tightly bound partners. They occupy the same audible space and time, trading sounds as if they all ...

Hear the new supergroup! Bootsy Collins, Buckethead, and Victor Wooten drop "Metal Health," a sonic explosion raising mental health awareness ...

Stacker takes a look at Black artists music wouldn't be the same without, from Sister Rosetta Tharpe to Tupac Shakur.

A History of Rock and Roll in Fifteen Drummers, traces the Roots drummer’s journey from Philly prodigy to genre-shaping ...