How do you know if an R&B or hip-hop song is a classic? It’s a puzzling question. Many people feel the word “classic” has become overused and that albums, songs, and artists are being called “classic” ...

Clarinetist David Krakauer is known as both a classical virtuoso and a hard-rocking player of klezmer, the instrumental music of East European Jewry. Several years ago, he connected with DJ Socalled, ...

Funky Beat, an unusal clothing and gift shop for 14 years, is closing its original and final store – in Fairfield Shopping Center. But owners Dean and Melody Workman say it’s not about sad economic ...

“Two thousand miles I roam, just to make Madison my home.” —Clyde Stubblefield I never saw James Brown dance across the stage to Clyde Stubblefield’s funky beat, but I danced many times to that beat ...

When siblings Dean and Melody Workman opened Funky Beat 14 years ago, they brought the reggae scene and surf style to the suburbs of Hampton Roads. The brother-sister team established themselves as ...

Keen readers of music blogs and message boards that discuss the "hardcore continuum" in-depth and reference Foucault when talking about the latest song by Tempa T or some other incidental grime MC ...

Sometimes, the more you look at the big picture, the more everything winds up being the same. Such is the case with Bureau B’s excellent Funky Fräuleins compilation. Though extracted from the German ...