“It’s funky. It’s just fun. I don’t know …It’s cool,” said Jake Keenan, a sophomore at Drexel University taking a stab at mixing funk tracks laid down 20 years before he was born. “It’s not really in ...

This is FRESH AIR. In the 1970s, influential musicians such as Ornette Coleman began combining free jazz and electric funk. Three notable vets of free funk bands periodically team up to get ...

If there was a Mount Funkmore for the greatest funk bassists, Marcus Miller’s face and trademark porkpie hat would be sculpted into that musical monument. Miller honed his musical chops during funk’s ...

Mix reggae with funk music; add a dash of the film Drumline, and you have the basic recipe for the Boynton Beach-based band The People Upstairs (thepeopleupstairs.com). The quintet of ...

All the Latest Game Footage and Images from Super Mario Bros. Funk Mix Deluxe Super Mario Bros. Funk Mix is a full game overhaul based off of Super Mario Bros. With a faithful replication of the NES ...

Bowling Green State University celebrates an American original musical genre with the Funk Music in Popular Culture Conference April 25-26, 2025. A two-day event packed with guest speakers and a ...