Dan Fogarty may have one of the most coveted jobs in corporate America. He’s a walking iPod for Chipotle — traveling around, listening to music, and deciding what beats are funky enough to go with ...

When you look back on the last half-century of backbeat-driven, hard-pocket funk, it’s strange that one of the genre’s major innovators was inspired to start playing because of the square, oompah ...

Could a local music scene be growing around pork products and their many derivatives? Though Bacon Bits certainly share some similarities with Spam, the differences are just as evident. Both bands are ...

As we plow headfirst into the hustle and bustle of the holiday season (mentally blocking out the overhead canned carols), a dose or two live funky soul music is just what the weary shopper needs to ...

BRECKENRIDGE – It seems if you grow up in Louisiana and have any musical inclination, you can’t help but let it out.At least that’s Danny Rhodes’ experience.Rhodes spent his childhood steeped in ...

Arlester "Dyke" Christian and his bandmates were packing the dance floor at one of their regular stomping grounds in Phoenix, the Elks Club on Seventh Avenue, when a man approached to ask whose song ...

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YPSILANTI, MI -- Funkiness is coming to downtown Ypsilanti with a week full of live, original music. Funky Rivertown Fest is 7:30 to 10:30 p.m. Tuesday, March 19, through Friday, March 22, and 2 to 11 ...

If you've seen Funky Unkle in a live setting, you know a couple things. First, they know how to get a room moving. And second, there's a lot of them. Nine members, to be exact. A stage can barely ...

In the basement of a Bowery Street bar in lower Manhattan a musician was working the crowd like a younger (and geekier) version of Keith Richards. Slung waist high was not a guitar, but a PC keyboard ...