When siblings Dean and Melody Workman opened Funky Beat 14 years ago, they brought the reggae scene and surf style to the suburbs of Hampton Roads. The brother-sister team established themselves as ...

Instead of emphasizing chord changes and melody, funk accentuated heavily syncopated beats and rhythmic and repetitive bass lines.

“Two thousand miles I roam, just to make Madison my home.” —Clyde Stubblefield I never saw James Brown dance across the stage to Clyde Stubblefield’s funky beat, but I danced many times to that beat ...

And now it's time to get down, get down. In our studios, we have our friends Jasmine Garsd and Felix Contreras from NPRMusic's Alt.Latino, a show dedicated to Latin alternative music. They recently ...

Clarinetist David Krakauer is known as both a classical virtuoso and a hard-rocking player of klezmer, the instrumental music of East European Jewry. Several years ago, he connected with DJ Socalled, ...

April Baer / OPB Too soon! Too soon! What are we doing here again, eulogizing one of our musical icons? And yet, there it was: Thursday’s news about the death of Prince. This man meant so much to ...

After already releasing “The 20/20 Experience” earlier in the year and embarking on the “Legends Of The Summer” tour, Justin Timberlake is back for “The 20/20 Experience – 2 of 2.” The album drops ...