One of the greatest funk songs of all time came from a hard rock cover band just looking to fit into the times. Wild Cherry, a band from a steel town in Ohio, got its start in the early 1970s as a ...

Funk songs really dominated the radio in the 1970s, and for good reason. Few genres that were popular at the time matched the danceable energy and uplifting lyricism that funk was known for. If you’re ...

Karandeep Singh Oberoi is a Durham College Journalism and Mass Media graduate who joined the Android Police team in April 2024, after serving as a full-time News Writer at Canadian publication ...

Some songs become more than the textbook definition of a hit because they do more than encourage a sing-along moment. Some records stop the world. Some help reshape a perspective. And others become ...

The thought of dancing to a funk song isn’t a radical idea. However, not all funk is the same. There are some tunes so funky they’ll even inspire the stiffest wallflowers to move. Head to the dance ...

In 1980, Zapp released "More Bounce to the Ounce," and the tune changed the game for funk music. The song became a commercial breakthrough, reaching No. 2 on Billboard's Hot Soul Singles chart (now ...

The 45 RPM single for the Honey Drippers' song "Impeach the President" released in 1973 on songwriter Roy C. Hammond's own Alaga record label (Courthouse News via TuffCityRecords YouTube) MANHATTAN ...

DAYTON, Ohio (WDTN) – One doesn’t have to live in Dayton for long to learn that there’s funk within the city’s roots. Between the Funk Music Hall of Fame & Exhibition Center (also known as the Funk ...

You can go in many directions when compiling a list of the all-time best country music songs. Which criteria do you use? Record sales, most streamed, most googled, number of weeks on the country ...

Aiden Gottschalk is a writer based in the United States. Growing up watching the 1966 Batman series with his father, there wasn't a doubt in his mind that he wasn't going to end up in some creative ...

If there was a Mount Funkmore for the greatest funk bassists, Marcus Miller’s face and trademark porkpie hat would be sculpted into that musical monument. Miller honed his musical chops during funk’s ...

Filmmaker Stanley Nelson Jr. had just premiered his 2019 “Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool” at the Sundance Film Festival when, as he was out on the dance floor, the topic of his next film came up. “We ...