There's a special vibe about funk. It's often not considered as virtuosic as rock, as emotive as blues or as intimate as folk. Rather, its selling point is all about the groove. Core to this is the ...

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Cleveland native Michael Hampton began his music career as a teenage prodigy in Funkadelic, which led to an induction into ...

Frusciante turned up the funk more and more through the years with Red Hot Chili Peppers. “Turn It Again” from 2006 is a great example of that. It’s a bit surprising, considering that Frusciante was ...

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 ...

Joe Messina, the prolific guitarist whose work with the Funk Brothers can be heard on an array of Motown classics, died Monday, April 4, the Detroit Free Press reports. He was 93. Messina died at his ...

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Art Neville will lead a revamped version of the Funky Meters at the House of Blues on Saturday, the band's first hometown appearance in two years and first with Art's 25-year-old son, Ian, as the band ...