When news dropped that Earth, Wind & Fire was heading out on the road with Lionel Richie for the Sing a Song All Night Long tour last year, let’s just say demand was high. “I can’t even get a ticket!” ...

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The foundations of funk were laid down in the mid-1960s, when James Brown began to emphasize the first beat of each measure in his stage-tested and frenzy-inducing R&B songs. Before the decade’s end, ...

Canadian indie collective Arcade Fire debuted a new song at their intimate show in London last night. The song, “Chemistry,” is a funk-infused, stomp-and-clap track, a style previously unexplored by ...

Earth, Wind & Fire perform at the Rady Shell. (Photo by Donovan Roches/Times of San Diego) Despite being down one original member — bassist Verdine White is temporarily sidelined for medical reasons — ...

Two years ago, toward the end of Arcade Fire‘s world tour behind their smash, Album of the Year-winning The Suburbs, they needed a change. They traveled to earthquake-devastated Haiti, where singer ...

The 10-piece Los Angeles band Jungle Fire calls the music it makes “tropi-funk,” and the reasoning permeates its self-titled new album, a seamless convergence of Latin, Afro-Cuban, West African and ...