Tank and the Bangas, the genre-blending New Orleans band that intermingles R&B, funk, jazz, hip-hop and spoken word, finally ...

NPR's Scott Simon talks with Patrick Patterson and Steve Scipio of the British funk band Cymande about their new album and about reconstituting the band after decades.

Heartwood Soundstage is proud to present Jonathan Scales Fourchestra and Dionysus for a standing room only performance in the ...

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Eastcliff, the Los Angeles-based indie-soul-rock band, incorporates a dynamic range of flavors, basking in a time-forgotten sheen that feels straight out ...

NEW ORLEANS — The U.S. Postal Service has unveiled a new Black Heritage Series Forever Stamp honoring legendary New Orleans musician Allen Toussaint (1938-2015), a visionary whose work in jazz, R&B, ...

One critic said the group was too hot and Black to be rock, too positive to be the Blues, and too wild to be Soul. Sly's ...

Upbeat funk music plays in the background. “It’s a little cute, a little playful,” said Shannon Hake, the agency’s livable streets program manager. She characterized the automated surveillance ...

I had this hook Jevlis Ka? stuck in my head for the longest time. I wanted something young, fresh, and conversational - lyrics that felt like today’s lingo but without trying too hard to be trendy or ...