Adult contemporary can sometimes mean easy listening on the FM dial or R&B ballads from the '70s or '80s. But it's taken on a whole new meaning for the electro funk duo, Chromeo. (SOUNDBITE OF SONG, " ...
Who: Juno What?!When: TonightWhere: three20south, BreckWhere’d the name come from? Roland Juno – 106 synthesizerHome base: DenverType of music: Electro-funkIf your music were a tangible item, what ...
Zachary Hose was born and raised in southeast Tucson, Arizona, an area plagued by poverty, gangs and drug cartels. Tempted by addiction, in constant trouble with the law, he somehow persevered. Today ...
this audio or video is no longer availableFor over a decade, UK electronic music specialist The Herbaliser has crafted expansive hip-hop instrumentals and hybrid funk and soul that has charmed the ...
Afrika Bambaataa is one of the architects of hip-hop culture as we know it. He was there when DJ Kool Herc and Kool DJ Dee were throwing the parties that were the foundation stone of hip-hop in New ...
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Top 40 Funk Songs

The foundations of funk were laid down in the mid-1960s, when James Brown began to emphasize the first beat of each measure in his stage-tested and frenzy-inducing R&B songs. Before the decade’s end, ...