Sly Stone and the Scariest Show Ever

I don't think I've ever felt more tension in the room during a live performance than when I was standing five feet in front of Sly Stone, in a room that felt...

Remembering Bobby Byrd

Alan Leeds, one of my heroes and our greatest record of the living history of funk music, offers a warm remembrance of Bobby Byrd after Byrd’s passing last...

A Temple in Vegas

Sasha Frere-Jones bears witness to Prince’s ageless funk in this week’s New Yorker. As much as I admire Prince’s gifts, it’s Sasha’s job I want.

Goodbye, Godfather

To those of us who grew up after his artistic heyday, James Brown is some combination of legend, influence, icon, and inevitably, caricature. So on the day we...

the funk of forty thousand years

mellow funk instrumentals

Sweet funky instrumentals. There’s the Commodore’s "Machine Gun", Barry White’s "Love’s Theme". There’s a whole bunch of almost vocal-free...

Extended Funkiness

The whole point of funk music is finding a groove and working it, but too many really funky songs quit just as they’re getting started. Stevie Wonder is...

make my funk...

It’d be ludicrous to think we couldn’t do this. We do this; This is what we do.

funk soul now

N.E.R.D. Cee Lo. Remy Shand. It’s coming back.

I saw Maceo Parker last

I saw Maceo Parker last night, and he was funky as all get out. Granted, he wasn’t as ass-kicking as the first time I saw him, but that may have been due at...

Not into P-Funk? How 'bout

Not into P-Funk? How ’bout Arto Lindsay then? C’mon, let’s go!