History can lift you up or weigh you down. It can be a mountain to stand on or a sack of stones upon your back. This is especially true in a town where musical history is as rich and omnipresent as it ...

New Orleans music has gotten its due in recent years, thanks to everything from archival MP3 blogs (Home of the Groove is excellent) to Treme. Here, expert excavators at U.K. label Soul Jazz focus on ...

Joe Jonas has seen more highs and lows in the music industry than most musicians twice his age. In 2006, just before he turned 17, his band with brothers Nick and Kevin, the Jonas Brothers, released ...

NPR's Leila Fadel speaks with Joseph Boudreaux Jr. and Joe Gelini of the New Orleans funk band, Cha Wa, about their new album celebrating the sounds and culture of the Mardi Gras Indians. And finally ...

The soundtrack to your summer has just arrived. Today (June 30), Calvin Harris unleashes Funk Wav Bounces Vol. 1, a new album featuring the likes of ScHoolboy Q, Travis Scott, Big Sean, Pharrell, ...

Anitta has dropped a dance-heavy music video for her new buzzy single called “Funk Rave.” The Brazillian funk track is her first release under Republic Records, in partnership with Universal Music ...

Bobby Shmurda stopped by Hot 97 for a new Funk Flex freestyle, which featured the rapper delivering bars over Waka Flocka's "Hard in da Paint." May 5, 2022 ...

Brazil has long been a laboratory for sonic innovation, synthesizing the unique musical traditions of the country’s diverse population. At the cutting edge is baile funk, a sound that stems back ...

The members of the New Orleans funk band Papa Grows Funk at the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival’s Gentilly Stage. They are, from left, drummer Jeffery ‘Jellybean’ Alexander, guitarist June ...