A-list producer Don Was talks Rolling Stones, Grateful Dead, B-52s, Scott Weiland and his Pan-Detroit Ensemble tour.

There have been a lot of words to describe good funk music. Dirty. Gritty. Grimy. When done right, funk should make your face scrunch up, your head nod and your body move in ways even you might not ...

Ivan Neville was in high school when The Wild Tchoupitoulas recorded its seminal 1976 album at Sea-Saint Studios. He can’t remember if he had visited the studio during those sessions — maybe he had ...

History: Bass' musical resume as a producer, composer and multi-instrumentalist goes back more than 20 years, since he joined the family business (his dad is award-winning Eminem producer Jeff Bass).

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WKRN) — The Nashville Public Library is offering a full year of free music lessons and providing the musical instruments for kids to use during class and to take home for practice.

Alaska doesn’t have a sport fishery for bass – and it’s likely that there are no bass there at all – which is exactly why every hard-core, self-described hawging freak needs to get there. Look, you ...

Hector Garcia grew up in Los Angeles, raised on the sounds of funk music. He memorized the hip slang and lyrics of funk legend George Clinton, founder of the Parliament-Funkadelic collective along ...

God might have made you funky, and if so, congratulations. But if not, there is hope for you yet in the shape of a new MXR pedal for bass guitar that puts vintage analogue synth sounds at your feat.

The musician deployed a drumming technique that would influence countless funk and hip-hop artists. By Steve Knopper Rodney Brown, drummer on 1967’s “Funky Broadway,” a Dyke & the Blazers classic and ...

Sly Stone, a funk-rock star who led the group Sly and the Family Stone, has died at the age of 82, his family said in a statement. A statement said he had suffered a "prolonged battle" with the lung ...

Sly Stone, one of the pioneers of funk music, has died aged 82, his family have said. As front man for his band Sly And The Family Stone, the musician fused soul, rock, psychedelia and gospel to take ...

Sly Stone, a onetime San Francisco DJ turned pop and funk music innovator, has died. He was 82. "It is with profound sadness that we announce the passing of our beloved dad, Sly Stone of Sly and the ...