CJ Johnson’s gritty, raspy voice brings the sound of the Washington D.C.-based indie soul band alive. (Oh He Dead) New funk and soul bands are becoming increasingly rare and underappreciated. With ...

Mixing up the funk, soul, groove and jazz seemed pretty easy to The Addison Groove Project in its new album, Allophone. It is impressive in its attention to quality in both sound and design. After ...

“It’s funky. It’s just fun. I don’t know …It’s cool,” said Jake Keenan, a sophomore at Drexel University taking a stab at mixing funk tracks laid down 20 years before he was born. “It’s not really in ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) George Clinton is a mastermind of funk, an architect of psychedelic grooves, and an innovator whose ...

Early funk is often associated with the Godfather Of Soul James Brown, who helped pioneer this style of dance music in the late '60s and early '70s. The ubiquitous use of syncopation (playing on the ...

For the audio examples of the funk grooves click here With funk guitar, rhythmic grooves and chords are king. It plays an integral rhythmic role alongside the bass guitar and drums in a band, and ...

Back in the 20th Century when John Gros was enrolled in the George Porter, Jr. Academy of Funk as a member of the Runnin’ Pardners, he also held down a bread and butter gig playing for tourists at ...