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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

Somewhere between funk, rock, and R&B, acid jazz is a one-of-a-kind genre that can transport any listener within sound itself. It’s an intoxicating groove, an entangling world that honors and uplifts ...

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 ...

Filmmaker Stanley Nelson Jr. had just premiered his 2019 “Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool” at the Sundance Film Festival when, as he was out on the dance floor, the topic of his next film came up. “We ...

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 ...