This is FRESH AIR. In the 1970s, influential musicians such as Ornette Coleman began combining free jazz and electric funk. Three notable vets of free funk bands periodically team up to get ...

Sly Stone, the frontman of the revolutionary band Sly and the Family Stone, has died following several health issues. He was 82. “It is with profound sadness that we announce the passing of our ...

Funk music pioneer Sly Stone has died "after a prolonged battle with COPD and other underlying health issues," his family said Monday. (Martial Trezzini / Keystone / Associated Press) Sly Stone, a ...

Funk master and innovator Sly Stone, whose music drove a civil rights-inflected soul explosion in the 1960s, has died, his ...

An eight-piece funk band consisting of 5,000-year-old Egyptian Mummies isn't a hard sell for most music fans looking a spooky thrill at any time of the year. To offer said band up in October is the ...

Bowling Green State University celebrates an American original musical genre with the Funk Music in Popular Culture Conference April 25-26, 2025. A two-day event packed with guest speakers and a ...

The Gazette offers audio versions of articles using Instaread. Some words may be mispronounced. For a quarter century, a band of 5,000-year-old, bandage-wrapped undead have prowled America, with their ...

The early 1970s are a bit of an underrated era of music, in my opinion. Not only was rock music going through an important transformation, but a ton of solid funk and soul music was coming out around ...

As its name implies, classic rock isn’t so much defined by its sound as its place in music history. Much of this music carries a certain timelessness that deserves to be remembered. But unfortunately, ...