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 ...

A half-century ago, George Clinton debuted a $500,000 spaceship that turned his live concerts into intergalactic journeys. Here’s how it went down. By Steve Knopper Nearly 50 years ago in New Orleans, ...

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, ...

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 ...

Aaron Mann removed 87 Burmese pythons in July, the most by any hunter in the South Florida Water Management District's 2025 incentive program. Mann's total brings the 2025 program's eliminated python ...

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 ...

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, ...

Funk allowed Black musicians and their audiences to shapeshift and speak truth to power—even while speaking in tongues. But as Stanley Nelson and Nicole London’s documentary WE WANT THE FUNK! reveals, ...