Check out Okayplayer's official 4/20 playlist featuring a no-pass batch of psychedelic funk and soul obscurities. With the country (mostly) in lockdown, due to COVID-19 (coronavirus), this year's 4/20 ...

The cover of the newly reissued 1977 LP Yoyi, originally released by Jorge Soler León under the name Grupo los Yoyi Credit: Courtesy of Future Rootz Medina grew up in Cuba, but his voracious appetite ...

Record collectors of the hip-hop generation first discovered the music of Ethiopia's Mulatu Astatke in the early 1990s. At that time, dealers at the legendary Roosevelt Hotel Record Convention in ...

Music is constantly changing and evolving. Each decade that passes by is remembered for the styles of music that ruled the era. Looking back on days gone by, it's difficult not to get nostalgic and ...

It wasn't long until I contacted Thomas to buy some of the records I didn't own, and to interview him for a radio show I hosted on Vanderbilt University's radio station, the now-defunct WRVU. It was ...

Instead those honors go to Parliament’s 1977 funk classic “Flash Light,” the Afro-picked Xavier “X” Smith (Bow Wow, three years removed from dropping the “Lil’”) singing over George Clinton and ...

Slow Fizz is back with our friends at Handlebar and the best dancers in the city! Slow Fizz dancers always bring those soulful funky moves and we can't wait to see y'all shine again. DJ Cher and ...

Palmetto’s ninth annual Fourth of July Festival will get a little funky this year. Mark Farner, former front man for Grand Funk Railroad, brings his American Band to headline the festivities this year ...