Crescent City Classics returns to The Joy Theater during Jazz Fest 2025 for another intergenerational celebration of New Orleans music.

Acclaimed singer-songwriter-pianist Neal Francis shares the second song from his eagerly anticipated third studio ...

Questlove’s boisterous, inquisitive new doc about San Francisco musical dynamos Sly and the Family Stone (premiering Feb. 13 on Hulu), isn’t immune to the pattern.  But beneath the template, embedded ...

February is Black History Month, and South Florida is honoring the occasion with a variety of activities that salute the ...

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

"Sly Lives! (aka the Burden of Black Genius)" unpacks the complicated legacy of Sly Stone. It premiered at Sundance, and hits ...

Cymande must be the most unappreciated London band of all time, and this is such an embarrassment I can hardly even type it.

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.

Anyone who's heard Grace Bowers' incendiary debut album, Wine on Venus, can hear there's a bit of an old soul inside the ...

Music legend George Clinton, who founded the Parliament Funkadelic universe in a Plainfield barbershop, is up for a Grammy.

The cliché says what’s old is new again. It’s not often that we see a gap of 51 years between albums, but the legendary ...

Toby Myers, longtime bassist for John Mellencamp and the Todd Rundgren-discovered band Roadmaster, died on Jan. 16 at age 75. “Sadness has entered the Mellencamp band and John over the passing ...