The third volume of Light in the Attic’s ongoing survey of this largely notional movement puts a new twist on the idea of combining two seemingly incompatible genres in one unruly sound. Almost by ...
Detroit madman and doo-wop veteran George Clinton spent the 1970s running two of the wildest bands in the galaxy: Funkadelic for guitar-crazed rock, Parliament for dance-floor boogie. Only a genius ...
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 ...
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, ...