I wrote recently about some of the most influential artists who brought together punk and funk in their music. It's still quite a thought-provoking and perhaps unexpected fusion of genres.
The 1960s was a melting pot of musical innovation, with multiple genres forming, growing and progressing simultaneously in often completely different directions. Funk music started to emerge in ...
Mitch Funk, a pioneering Canadian punk-rock vocalist who fronted the Winnipeg band Personality Crisis in the late 1970s and early 1980s, has died, his younger brother, Aaron Funk, said Wednesday.
Other artists brought funk more to the fore in their music in the 1970s like Stevie Wonder with “Superstition”. There was plenty of room for many more great funk bands and their music.
The Blues. Jazz. Gospel. Soul. R&B. Funk. Rap. So much of the greatest music ever made was born and raised in the American South. Black musicians in the Jim Crow South entertained on the so-called ...