VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. — Organizers have announced the lineup for a free funk music festival slated to take place at the Oceanfront in late August. The 2026 Virginia Beach Funk Fest Beach Party will run ...

DAYTON, Ohio (WDTN) – One doesn’t have to live in Dayton for long to learn that there’s funk within the city’s roots. Between the Funk Music Hall of Fame & Exhibition Center (also known as the Funk ...

Watergate had shaken the nation. Gerald Ford was completing the third year of what would have been Richard Nixon’s second presidential term, had he not resigned in disgrace. The Vietnam War was ...

Veteran rapper and DJ Funkmaster Flex announced on Thursday he’s leaving Hot 97 after 33 years with the New York radio station. Funk Flex — who began hosting the station’s first-ever hip-hop show in ...

For 50 years, American photographer Mitchell Funk has been training his lens on one of the most recognizable structures in the world: the Chrysler Building. And while the subject in this body of work ...

Mark Farner, Don Brewer, and Mel Schacher formed Grand Funk Railroad in 4969. Later that year, they released their debut album, On Time. Over the years, the band has released six Platinum albums and ...

EXCLUSIVE: Italian sales agent Intramovies has acquired global rights to leading Brazilian director Aly Muritiba’s new film Funk. Funk charts the rise of MC Sabrina, a young Brazilian funk singer, ...

VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. (WAVY) – The Virginia Beach Funk Fest is coming back to the Oceanfront Aug. 22-23, and the City of Virginia Beach, Beach Events and IMGoing announced the lineup on Wednesday, May 7 ...

We Want the Funk!, an expansive, emotive, celebratory documentary looking at one of history's most important musical genres, begins simply. Legendary studio musician Marcus Miller picks up his bass ...

Funk music has been around since the 1960s, developing out of gospel, R&B and soul, with a distinct emphasis on “syncopated bass lines and steady, infectious drum grooves,” according to one ...

If there was a Mount Funkmore for the greatest funk bassists, Marcus Miller’s face and trademark porkpie hat would be sculpted into that musical monument. Miller honed his musical chops during funk’s ...

The syncopated story of funk music, from its roots to the explosion of '70s urban funk and beyond. WE WANT THE FUNK! is a syncopated voyage through the history of funk music, spanning from African, ...