Music critic Edna Gundersen shares her top albums for the first half of 2025. Did your favorite artist make the list?

Saying farewell to Sly Stone, whose avant-funk vision changed the world and influenced generations of musicians ...

Sly Stone and his band synthesised disparate strands of American popular music, tracking the musical and social shifts as the 1960s wore into the 1970s.

When James Brown died on Christmas Day 2006 at age 73, officials at Atlanta's Emory University Hospital Midtown cited congestive heart failure as the cause of death. Nearly a decade later, the medical ...

The arrest of a popular funk singer in Brazil on suspicion of glorifying a powerful crime gang has revived a long-standing ...

Fittingly, they get the party started with “Give up the Funk (Tear the Roof off the Sucker)” by Jerome Brailey, George ...

According to the testimony of his former assistant under the pseudonym “Mia,” he once auditioned to portray James Brown in the 2014 biopic Get on Up. The role ultimately went to Chadwick Boseman. The ...

WALHALLA — James M. Brown Elementary School was one of 220 schools from 38 states across the country to receive a $5,000 grant through the Laura Bush Foundation for America’s Libraries. The school ...

Summer is almost here, and veteran Sophistafunk MC Jack Brown and rising experimental funk trio Grub already have fans set for the season with their debut collaboration, “Summer Breeze”.

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James Brown and Scott Allardice were at the end of their contracts James Brown and Scott Allardice have left Ross County following the end of their contracts with the club relegated from the ...