Covers have existed since the creation of modern music, sometimes with the secondary artist achieving the same acclaim as the one who performed the original. Whether done for sheer attention, as many ...

With most of us still a bit hungover from yesterday’s Super Bowl festivities, it’s understandable that there hasn’t been that much Valentine’s Day celebration. After all, who’d want their brand-new, ...

Michael Cooper received a call from his daughter on Valentine’s Day last year telling the co-founder of the R&B band Con Funk Shun to check out a video she had sent him. “I clicked on the link and the ...

Sometimes heartstrings can be broken, but that doesn’t stop Silk Sonic from tugging on them. Bruno Mars and Anderson .Paak are celebrating Valentine’s Day with a trip to the Eighties on their new ...

From Vallejo High School to stages across the world, the boys who came the men behind funk and R&B soul stalwarts Con Funk Shun found their calling in Vallejo. And yes, they can go home again. The ...

*So fresh was the sound of Con Funk Shun just the name has become a genre. The band whose music has been covered by R&B group Dru Hill (“Love’s Train” produced by Keith Sweat) on their multi-platinum ...

There’s a “Love’s Train” that’s coming to Stockbridge this Fourth of July, but it’s not being led by Bruno Mars and Anderson Paak. ConFunkShun, the “conductors” of the original song that topped the ...