Diamond Cafe is on a mission to make funk music mainstream again. “I feel like people don’t realize how much they love funk music,” he says. “When it’s on and it’s playing, people just can’t help ...

City Pop artists are known for their unique blend of jazz, funk, and electronic elements. They often draw the urban lifestyle and romance of 1980s Japan. This genre appeared during a period of rapid ...

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, ...

Pomegranates: Persian Pop, Funk, Folk and Psych of the 60s and 70s (B-Music/Finders Keepers) Over the past decade or so record labels in America and Europe have been rediscovering pop music of all ...

Compiled by DJ and Soundway Records manager Alice Whittington, aka Norsicaa, Ayo Ke Disco is a snapshot of disco, funk and soul-inflected pop from the clubs of Malaysia, Indonesia, Hong Kong, ...

There’s a reason Lamont Landers’ music plays well on a mass-medium like network TV. He has the kind of talent that, in the right showbiz hands, can make people rich. Malleable warm vocals and pop-funk ...

When singer Molly Grace was growing up in Lexington, she did every performing arts hobby she could get her hands on. “I did theater in school, I did community theater, I did choir, I did a cappella, I ...