This weekend, laugh with “Paul Blart” star Kevin James at his “Owls Don’t Walk” stop at The Oncenter Crouse Hinds Theater, or ...

Joe Messina, one of the original guitarists for Motown Records' in-house backing band the Funk Brothers, died on Monday at the age of 93. Born on Dec. 13, 1928, in Detroit, Messina began playing ...

Followers of Grand Funk Railroad will be aware that Bruce Kulick – who joined in 2000, four years after being jettisoned from Kiss – vacated his post in January 2024. “I will forever cherish my time ...

The Grammy winner popularized the upside-down tuning in funk guitar and it has been a pillar of her sound. Now, her new La ...

One of the great wah-wah pedal players in history also played on The Isley Brothers’ hit “It’s Your Thing.” By Mike Barnes Senior Editor Skip Pitts, a master of the wah-wah pedal guitar sound whose ...

Joe Messina, the original guitarist for legendary Motown Records studio band the Funk Brothers, has died. Billboard reports that Messina died yesterday in Detroit after a 12-year battle with kidney ...

As the bandleader of “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert” and scion of a New Orleans funk family, Jonathan Batiste knows his way around an uptempo groove. So, too, does Cory Wong, a featured guitarist ...

Joe Messina, a jazz guitarist whose work with the Funk Brothers helped build the bedrock of the Motown sound, died Monday in Northville. He was 93. Messina, a longtime Warren resident, died at 4 a.m.

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Rock and Roll Hall of Fame guitarist Garry Shider from Parliament and Funkadelic has died at age 56. The legendary guitarist known to fans as “Starchild” or “Diaperman” had been battling brain and ...

Founding Grand Funk Railroad lead singer/guitarist Mark Farner hasn’t played in the group since the late 1990s, but in a new interview with Guitar World, he admitted that he’s still open to reuniting ...

Shider, who died Wednesday at his home in Upper Marlboro, Md., was known to millions of fans as "Starchild" or "Diaperman," the latter because of the loincloth he often wore onstage. Shider's son, ...