Founded in Oakland, California in 2008 The Funk Revival Orchestra was established to bring old school rare funk, grooves and soul to the masses.With 10 members and growing F.R.O. brings a high energy, ...

The singer was known for producing dance hits with substantive lyrics. Gwen McCrae, heralded by many as “The Queen of Rare Groove,” has died at 81. Fans remember the soul-funk singer for her ...

Dave Pehling is website managing editor for CBS Bay Area. He started his journalism career doing freelance writing about music in the late 1990s, eventually working as a web writer, editor and ...

The title of this superb anthology of rare furious grooves from Florida speaks for itself. There are tons of righteous soul, hard-kickin’ drum breaks, James Brown-influenced grooves, and a whole lot ...

Bass Week: The word ‘funk’ or ‘funky’ can be applied to almost anything, from butt-shaking basslines to scatter cushions. We all instinctively know what’s implied, but in a bass playing sense, what ...

Everything I Do Gonna Be Funky (From Now On); Let Me Lay My Funk On You; Funky Junk; Down Home Funk; Loft Funk; God Make Me Funky; Cosmic Funk; Who Got De Funk?, Part 2; Canned Funk; Feeling Funky; ...

There's a new entry in the ongoing series of Rough Guide music anthologies called Latin Rare Groove Volume 2. The mostly instrumental cuts draw on salsa, funk, soul and rock from vintage and new ...

The vision of late 1960s and early '70s Seattle R&B as laid out by Light in the Attic's 2005 comp Wheedle's Groove permeated everything in reach of your speakers, and this collection proves that ...

For the audio examples of the funk grooves click here With funk guitar, rhythmic grooves and chords are king. It plays an integral rhythmic role alongside the bass guitar and drums in a band, and ...

Early funk is often associated with the Godfather Of Soul James Brown, who helped pioneer this style of dance music in the late '60s and early '70s. The ubiquitous use of syncopation (playing on the ...