In honor of Black History Month, The Current is exploring the origins of Black music in America, what came after, and how it has impacted the sounds of today. Today, let’s highlight some of the ...

Are you feeling worn out? Struggling with lingering sadness, anxiety or feelings of indifference? If so, you might be stuck ...

"It was a mix of everything that was great about Black culture," a Hofstra professor says of the genre, which burned bright in the late 1980s and early 1990s.

During his concert in Dubai on Saturday, Atif covered Mark Ronson and Bruno Mars' Uptown Funk. As one would expect, the internet was in awe of the Doorie singer in more ways than one. While some ...

Amanda Evans and Shannon Dykens standing in front of the entrance of the Write Cup Bookstore Cafe. (Luke Beirne/CBC) A new bookstore and coffee shop set to open in Market Square hopes to create a ...

While Phonk is excellent to hear, the conventional Brazilian Funk always sounds much more pleasing and is loved by traditional music lovers. So, if you are a Roblox player who loves listening to Phonk ...

Funk is a gateway to jazz that was born in New Orleans as a soulful platform for ensemble arrangements and individual statements. At the second annual Oly Funk Festival, groove will once again replace ...

A rendering of the renovated Clarendon Park Community Center in Uptown, which will receive $7 million in upgrades. Credit: Courtesy 46th Ward UPTOWN — A $13 million overhaul of an Uptown park ...

CHARLOTTE, N.C. – One person is dead after what police says appears to be an attempted car theft. It happened on 8th Street near Graham in Uptown. Police say a driver pulled up to an apartment complex ...

and they’ve brought their industrial aesthetic—Holstein’s described it as ‘stealth’ in the past—uptown, via polished gray plaster walls, a steel tile floor with low-slung, built-in ...