The jam-packed, purple-and-sparkles-clad crowd at First Avenue was amped on Wednesday night. They waved their arms and sang along wholeheartedly as DJ Lenka Paris spun Prince favorites “Baby, I’m a ...

A late-'70s disco-funk anthem didn't just light up dance floors. It helped launch an all-female family group into stardom. Sister Sledge quickly became a standout singing group of the disco era, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A late-’70s disco-funk anthem didn’t just light up dance floors. It helped launch an all-female family group into stardom. Sister ...

VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. — Organizers have announced the lineup for a free funk music festival slated to take place at the Oceanfront in late August. The 2026 Virginia Beach Funk Fest Beach Party will run ...

A chance encounter led to overnight success for the Sequence, a seminal trio whose “Funk You Up” broke barriers. By Alex Williams Gwendolyn Chisolm, a South Carolina grocery worker who, through a ...

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 ...

The initial shockwave of 1977’s punk explosion had settled into the cerebral, jagged architecture of post-punk and the slick, machine-driven accessibility of synthpop and New Wave. Meanwhile, the ...

Watergate had shaken the nation. Gerald Ford was completing the third year of what would have been Richard Nixon’s second presidential term, had he not resigned in disgrace. The Vietnam War was ...

Popular music was splintering in about a dozen directions as the '70s came to an end. The decade's buildups of pop, rock, new wave, punk, disco, soul and any number of variations on those genres ...