Iconic R&B musician Carl Carlton, known for the hit songs “She’s a Bad Mama Jama (She’s Built, She’s Stacked)” and ...

Pop vocal trio the Bee Gees performing at the Music for UNICEF Concert at the United Nations General Assembly in New York City, January, 1979. The 1970s were an eclectic time for music and cultural ...

The musicians in War simply loved jamming together. It was everyone else who made meaning from their melodies. “All we wanted was to groove,” said keyboardist and singer Lonnie Jordan, the only ...

Watching some of our favorite icons age has such a multifaceted effect on fans. Some get judgmental and dismissive, some get heartbroken and nostalgic. But for me, seeing musical heroes like Robert ...

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, ...

Have you heard of the obscure subgenre known as mutant disco? If not, you’re not alone in that respect. This genre is also known as avant-funk or punk-funk, and it makes sense why. Mutant Disco is all ...

Tony Maiden of Rufus has been waiting nearly 20 years to perform "Ain't Nobody," the funk group's Grammy Award-winning 1983 hit. Rufus broke up in the early '80s after lead singer Chaka Khan left to ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Quentin Singer is music journalist who covers rock and heavy music. Robert Plant and Jimmy Page of Led Zeppelin. The dazzling ...

The Bronx Zoo’s Holiday of Lights festival is surely to be a “Celebration” this year as Kool & the Gang’s 1980 chart-topping hit has been tapped as the official soundtrack of the event, which runs ...

Jazmin Kylene is a Miami-bred writer and editor with a decade-long career that spans all editorial genres, though she has a particular passion for music journalism. Upon graduating Florida Atlantic ...