The energy inside the Marcus Center was electrifying as the Ladies of Hip Hop performed for hundreds of Milwaukee students.

A new documentary examines the golden age of funk music, when large, often interracial bands lay down syncopated grooves that packed dance floors. John Blake says that today’s pop music, largely ...

From countless pivotal fashion moments to Kardashian cover shoots, Black stripper aesthetics have shaped fashion for decades ...

Hop, kids who achieved certain goals and attended pre-school dance lessons got a hands-on lesson in the art of stepping, a ...

Cleveland’s story as an early torchbearer of rhythm and blues begins in the late 1940s when this new genre of pulsating, ...

Every Playboi Carti album has been highly anticipated. Since he first emerged with “ Broke Boi” in 2015 and resurfaced with ...

Ani DiFranco with special guest Wryn: 8 p.m. Thursday and Friday, April 10-11, at Thalia Hall, 1807 S. Allport St., Chicago.

Funk music has been around since the 1960s, developing out of gospel, R&B and soul, with a distinct emphasis on “syncopated ...

The spring and summer concert calendar has a little something for everyone, from Rock and Roll Hall of Famers (AC/DC, James ...

The jazz-funk score to Coffy stands alongside the twin pillars of Shaft and Super Fly, bringing the bongos to every future ...

"Once you get the funk out there, it's not going back. You can't put it back in the box," says filmmaker Stanley Nelson. His ...

Grammy Award-winning hip-hop legend Nas will perform his debut album, "Illmatic," alongside the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra in July.