What happens when you mix three generations of music, from classic funk to reggae with a mix of hip-hop and rock 'n' roll thrown in for good measure? You get the package tour headed by the New Bedford ...

Fusing elements of Funk, Hip Hop and Disco with floor shaking electronic beats, Father Funk’s unique, genre bending, party rocking style has gained him a cult following worldwide. Always delivered ...

XXL celebrates 50 years of hip-hop with this moment: Feb. 11, 1997: Legendary Hot 97 radio personality Funkmaster Flex aka Funk Flex took the mixtape game to a new level by making mixtapes a ...

VAIL – Chronophonic’s sound is part funk, part jazz and part hip-hop, but not specifically in that order. The eight-piece group plays 8150 tonight at 10 for a high energy start to the Halloween ...

New York’s largest free performing arts festival is back in the Bronx for its 23rd season. SummerStage, which is produced by the City Parks Foundation, is hosting over 100 free performances in 17 ...

This is the fourth in a weekly series of six essays looking at hip-hop’s recent past, thinking about its distant past, and wondering about the possibility of a future. Read the first one here, the ...

Funk allowed Black musicians and their audiences to shapeshift and speak truth to power—even while speaking in tongues. But as Stanley Nelson and Nicole London’s documentary WE WANT THE FUNK! reveals, ...

One year ago, DJ Blake Ward had an idea partially inspired by the music of late seventies New York club culture as seen on the popular Netflix musical drama show The Get Down. Between the dominance of ...

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The hip-hop pioneer explains why the Netflix series starts in the disco era. — -- In 1977, the term "hip-hop" didn't exist. The Sugarhill Gang's "Rapper's Delight" wouldn't push past the Top 40 ...

As it celebrates its 50th birthday, we are mapping hip-hop's story on a local level, with more than a dozen city-specific histories of the music and culture. Click here to see the entire list. If you ...