Kevin Coombe's record collection numbers in the thousands, filling floor-to-ceiling shelves and small cases around his apartment. He says he doesn't buy records as trophies to hang on his wall, or ...

The spirit of Throwback Thursday is alive and well in Minnesota's Twin Cities. Packed onto the dance floors of Minneapolis and St. Paul clubs, a small but passionate circuit of r&b revivalists has ...

I attended college in Nashville, in large part so that I could be close to the regional metropolises of the Midwest and Southeast. There, I figured I'd have a better chance of striking "black gold" — ...

In October the Wire published a primer on what it pronounced “the moment when Black music grew its Afro and took a lesson from hippy-rock, exploding into the Technicolor dream funk and proto-disco of ...

Almost too good to disturb from its immaculate packaging, this outstanding collection comprises 10 highly prized vinyl singles from the rarest vaults of deep soul and funk. All complete with original ...

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Expressive, versatile, and dripping in history - the fizzing frequencies of funk and the seductive sounds of soul are ever-alluring; and when all these sounds merge on a festival lineup, you can bet ...

If you cannot see the music player below, download the free Flash Player. Not to get too deep hereafter all, depth of groove tends to trump depth of message in funk musicbut when is a CD more than a ...