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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

LL3M was created by 3DL, a computer graphics research team led by Professor Lana Hanocka of the University of Chicago. LL3M takes textual instructions from the user and allows for the creation of ...

Aaron Mann removed 87 Burmese pythons in July, the most by any hunter in the South Florida Water Management District's 2025 incentive program. Mann's total brings the 2025 program's eliminated python ...

Mark Farner, Don Brewer, and Mel Schacher formed Grand Funk Railroad in 4969. Later that year, they released their debut album, On Time. Over the years, the band has released six Platinum albums and ...

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EXCLUSIVE: Italian sales agent Intramovies has acquired global rights to leading Brazilian director Aly Muritiba’s new film Funk. Funk charts the rise of MC Sabrina, a young Brazilian funk singer, ...

Funk music has been around since the 1960s, developing out of gospel, R&B and soul, with a distinct emphasis on “syncopated bass lines and steady, infectious drum grooves,” according to one ...

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 ...

Funk allowed Black musicians and their audiences to shapeshift and speak truth to power—even while speaking in tongues. But as Stanley Nelson and Nicole London’s documentary WE WANT THE FUNK! reveals, ...

The Ohio Players is one of many funk groups from Dayton that took off in the 1970s and '80s. In the mid-1960s, James Brown was creating a new style of music — funk. Instead of turning elaborate ...