Alcohol is a killer vice, and Robert Jay knows it. When the Detroit funk legend wrote the infectious “Alcohol” in 1969, he was hungover and mad as hell. Yet Jay’s blues-funked “Alcohol” became one of ...

Iconic funk band Pleasure took the stage for the first time this year as headliners of the 52nd Annual Oregon Juneteenth Festival at Lillis-Albina Park on Saturday, June 15. Before splitting up in the ...

Dave Pehling is website managing editor for CBS Bay Area. He started his journalism career doing freelance writing about music in the late 1990s, eventually working as a web writer, editor and ...

The cover of the newly reissued 1977 LP Yoyi, originally released by Jorge Soler León under the name Grupo los Yoyi Credit: Courtesy of Future Rootz Medina grew up in Cuba, but his voracious appetite ...

Chronicling the history and influence of funk music, PBS Distribution’s We Want The Funk! features legendary artists and rare footage. A co-production of Firelight Films and the Independent Television ...

'80s Funk Icon, 72, Dazzles With Rare Red Carpet Appearance originally appeared on Parade. Charlie Wilson just proved that being cool is simply part of his DNA. On June 9, 2025, the 25th annual BET ...

A pattern is starting to appear in Cimafunk’s album titles. The Afro-Cuban funk artist named his 2017 debut “Terapia,” or “Therapy,” and his 2021, Grammy-nominated follow-up was called “El Alimento,” ...