Musicians, artists, and bands switch genres all the time. There’s nothing wrong with it, provided the music is still good.

Many assume that a fierce rivalry with Michael Jackson kept His Royal Badness from participating in the star-studded charity ...

As a musical hub for funk music, Dayton, Ohio was very much apart of the movement responsible for its prominence and lasting influence.

These weeks fly by as we have already landed on yet another adrenaline-filled New Music Friday. No need to book a skydiving adventure or hike a volcano to ...

I was a freakin’ rebel. I was determined to make The Bangles the rock band that we started out as," says Vicki Peterson ...

Grammy winner Billy Joel announced Tuesday that he will postpone his latest tour for four months because of a "medical condition." A statement via the "Piano Man" and "Vienna" singer-songwriter's ...

D'Wayne Wiggins, a founding member of the hitmaking R&B trio Tony! Toni! Toné!, died March 7 of cancer at his home in Oakland ...

This year’s Whippersnap Music & Arts Festival, the second in Florida after years of success in the Chicago area, blew out a ...

Stacker surveyed Billboard’s Hot 100 chart in 1975 to highlight the top 50 songs turning 50 in 2025. See which hits made the ...

48 Hills music critic John-Paul Shiver is reporting this week from the Noise Pop Festival. Follow all his coverage here ... were filled with a mystical amalgamation of rock, psyche, funk, reggae, dub, ...

Chris Jasper, who helped shape the sound of 1970s funk and soul music as a keyboardist ... where he studied under jazz pianist and composer Billy Taylor and received a bachelor’s degree in ...

The icon earned his Bachelor of Fine Arts in music composition with esteemed jazz pianist and composer Billy Taylor ... his classical training with R&B, funk and soul. In 1973, Jasper ...