The Grammy Award–winning bandleader for The Roots spoke with Fresh Air's Terry Gross about his film on the funk musician who led Sly & the Family Stone in the 1960s and '70s.

Explore iconic ‘70s female singers who defined a decade. Discover their timeless music, unforgettable voices and lasting ...

has remained dedicated to reviving ‘70s funk for over a decade. She moved to the United States when she was 18 to study at Boston’s Berklee College of Music, and HuffPost touted the budding ...

The British group with Caribbean roots stopped performing in 1974. Its slow-rolling comeback is realized on Friday with a new ...

That energy is potent throughout On the Prowl, too, which is sure to catch new fans who dig the sounds of the ’70s. The album kicks ... I really think it's time for a funk-music revival, and ...

In the spirit of archival music comes long lost recordings by the Detroit Soul and Funk ensemble, Eramus Hall, via the ...

A great TV theme song has the power to instantly transport us into the world of a show, setting the tone before the first ...

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

Gaddafi bankrolling a dozen Maltese funk and pop musicians in the '70s and '80s to create music promoting his regime might just be the greatest thing he ever did. When Rune first started writing ...

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 ...