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Funk Without Aggression: Remembering the Gap Band’s Ronnie Wilson

The Gap Band keyboardist Ronnie Wilson—who passed away on November 2 from a stroke at the age of 73—helped create a stripped down Eighties funk sound that was at once robotic and deeply human.
By Sasha Frere-Jones
Beastie Boys

How The Beastie Boys Perfected Rap-Rock (Before Everyone Else Ruined It)

A masterpiece of innovation and unstoppable energy, "Check Your Head" reclaimed the Beastie Boys' status as New York hip-hop royalty.
By Ron Hart
Jimi Hendrix

Listen to Jimi Hendrix Playing One of His Best Concerts Ever

Forget about any other version of Jimi Hendrix you've heard. This is one of the greatest concerts of all time.
By Ron Hart
Alxndr London

Alxndr London Blurs the Lines of Identity With Genre-Bending Future Soul

By Lisa Brown
Lee Fields

How Big Crown Records Is Creating More Than the Retro-Soul Revival

By Justin Joffe
Kungs

How a French Teenager Made the Biggest Hit Song of 2016, ‘This Girl’

By Rob LeDonne
Method Man @ Roots Picnic New York

NY Roots Picnic Brought Protest and Hip-Hop to Bryant Park

By Justin Joffe
George Clinton and Parliament Funkadelic perform during the 2009 Voodoo Experience at City Park on October 31, 2009 in New Orleans, Louisiana. (Photo by Sean Gardner/Getty Images.)

Brainfeeder Signs George Clinton & Gives Him the Respect He Deserves

By Justin Joffe
Ishmael "Butterfly" Butler of Digable Planets, at BRIC's Celebrate Brooklyn Festival on July 30th, 2016

Digable Planets Return to Brooklyn as the Spark of High-Minded Hip-Hop

By Justin Joffe
Gabriel Garzón-Montano.

Pulled From Obscurity by Drake, Gabriel Garzón-Montano Seizes the Spotlight

By Patrick Flanary
Terrace Martin: Saxophonist, Keyboardist, Storyteller

Fuck the Jazz Police: Celebration & Reclamation at Montréal Jazz Fest

By Justin Joffe
(Courtesy of DJ Mel)

Meet the Man Who Pumps Up Bernie Sanders: DJ Mel

By Justin Joffe
Gayle King and L.A. Reid. (Laura Massa/Michael Priest Photography)

To Live and Die With L.A. Reid

By Matthew Kassel

On Inspiration Information Vol. 3, 1970s Ethiopian Jazz/Funk Meets Modern Psychedelia

By Christina Viviani

George Clinton Sets the Funky Record Straight on His ‘Fictitious Bankruptcy’

By Justin Joffe
George Clinton and Parliament Funkadelic perform during the 2009 Voodoo Experience at City Park on October 31, 2009 in New Orleans, Louisiana. (Photo by Sean Gardner/Getty Images.)

Blow My Funky Mind: The Legendary Life of George Clinton

By Shane Schleger
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