Tagged Funk

Imagine if James Brown and Steel Pulse had eight baby boys. Those boys would eventually become the men behind the funk group from Humboldt County, Diggin’ Dirt. Though they formed in 2011, Diggin’ Dirt rele...

The term “dynamic duo” couldn’t be more appropriate for musicians Ivan Jackson and Conor Rayne who met at the Manhattan School of Music and started a joint project Brasstracks just a few years ago.  Sinc...

This past week, I was blessed to see Con Funk Shun at Yoshi’s in Oakland. If you don’t know who Con Funk Shun is - AKA if you aren’t obsessed with funk or born in the ‘50s or ‘60s - they are an old-sc...

Bay area-based R&B group The Seshen is set to grace the Cornerstone stage in Berkeley this Friday. Opening will be LoCura, Space Captain, and DJ Dream Queen. Characterized by Akiyoshi Ehara’s synthy-di...

Save the Waves is a nonprofit organization with a mission to protect coastal ecosystems around the world. For a couple years now, they have been putting on a small music festival involving good tunes, DIY campi...

You may recognize her as the singer of the national anthem before Hillary Clinton’s speech accepting the official presidential nomination for the Democratic National Party in June 2016. You also may recall th...

London based producer and rapper Jay Prince has just dropped his third and most complete project yet, Smile Good. This follows the two EP’s he released in 2015—Befor Our Time and Beautiful Mercy. Befor Our ...

Austin-based multi-instrumentalist Max Frost originally caught the attention of influential ears in 2013 with the track “White Lies” and its incredibly flexible sound. Equal parts The Love Below-era Andre 3...

Con Brio's music is a dynamic collaboration of funk, soul, R&B, and jazz elements, elements that appear in infectiously groovy compilations of tracks on both their EP Kiss the Sun (2015) and newly released...

Memorial Glade is often seen as the most serene part of an otherwise frenzied UC Berkeley campus, and Norwegian electro-funk duo Lemaitre's presence helped keep up this reputation. On a Saturday afternoo...

Broken Bells, in all their space-themed glory, hit the stage of The Masonic this week and played a fantastic end to their North American tour. Front and center was a metallic hemisphere that projected the f...

Chillwave may not be a canonized genre of music, but Toro y Moi is definitely a canonized name in said genre -- more like, his name has been engraved, by lightning, on the stone slab of said genre. Since f...

It’s hard to find a good time on a weekday, but this past Tuesday, Black Joe Lewis and Radkey rocked the Fillmore like it was the weekend, giving the audience a chance to dance the midweek blues away. Headli...