Following Lettuce on tour is easier than ever, and it won’t cost you too much, as the longstanding funk group recently launched a new online platform, Lettuce Live. The subscription-based site is ...

Denver funk band Wild Love Tigress formed when the world was about to end…or so people thought. It was 2012, and many were ...

The organizers of Olympia’s new music festival have a message: “Funk OFF.” The musicians and music lovers at the helm aren’t being rude: “OFF” stands for Olympia Funk Festival, and the people who put ...

Legendary funk outfit Sly & The Family Stone is set to release one of the earliest ever live recordings of the band. This could mark a big moment in funk music history. A team of archivists has ...

On Sept. 27, the Funk Zone will come alive with music, art and community spirit. September will mark the fourth in the series of five artful community events. Come early to eat at Shalhoobs or Tamar’s ...

For those of a certain age, the words “funk music” bring to mind some of the great acts of the 20th century’s second half. James Brown. Sly and the Family Stone. Ohio Players. The Isley Brothers.

Dave Pehling is website managing editor for CBS Bay Area. He started his journalism career doing freelance writing about music in the late 1990s, eventually working as a web writer, editor and ...

He’s played it a million times, but Grand Funk Railroad’s Don Brewer never tires of performing “We’re an American Band.” The rowdy former No. 1 hit always draws a reaction. “I get a charge when I see ...

Louis Armstrong? Or Parliament-Funkadelic, Earth, Wind & Fire, and proto-rap group The Last Poets? It is perfectly logical to assume New Orleans-bred trumpeter and Pulitzer Prize-winning jazz composer ...