There was a time when we had to place great reliance on acoustic and simplistic synthetic instruments, to create the sounds we wanted to hear in the production realm. One instrument which was always ...

Houston's Tightn' Up! make music so funky, it's like they've reinvented the genre. Credit: Photo courtesy of Tightn' Up! It feels like forever ago when Craig of Heights Vinyl invited me to watch a ...

Leo Nocentelli, featuring the sounds of the world-famous funk band, the Meters, will highlight the upcoming Funky Uncle-sponsored series during the 2023 Jazz Fest at Zony Mash Beer Project. for this ...

The clavinet was an electric keyboard created by Hohner, a German company best known for its harmonicas. Its funky sound was widely used in the '70s. Stevie Wonder's Superstition, a chart-topping hit ...

The Red & Black is a 501c3 nonprofit. Please consider a one-time gift or become a monthly supporter. Cancel anytime. National Get Funky Day will be observed for the very first time on Thursday, Oct. 5 ...

Their music has been called passionate, distinctive, deeply honest, old school and soulful. Maze, featuring Frankie Beverly, has been making its own style of simultaneously mellow and funky sounds for ...

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Back in the summer of 2005, Drexel University’s Music Industry program got a very curious phone call. On the line was the owner of a storage facility in Philadelphia, wondering if ...