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“We had a lot of fun with our past catalogue with songs about outer space,” singer/guitarist Nick MacDaniels of the band Big Something was saying. “This time, on our new album, the songs are more ...

“It’s gonna be unapologetic funk. And it’s gonna be energetic. And it’s gonna be a wild ride, lots of high-energy solos and cool ensemble work.” That’s how percussionist Nate Worth describes funk-jazz ...

Darren Beckett brings versatility to a whole new level moving fluidly between the worlds of Jazz, Rock, Funk and Soul,. From his Rock band Ambulance (TVT records) to playing with the likes Lee Konitz ...

Back in the late sixties, when rock musicians started to explore more complex things, the music became at the same time more interesting and, well, complicated at the same time. It was the advent of ...

Two years ago, Sammy Rae & The Friends — a Brooklyn-based, seven-piece, funk-infused rock n' roll band — huddled around their phones in a bowling alley, watching a swarm of notifications blur together ...

This is FRESH AIR. In the 1970s, influential musicians such as Ornette Coleman began combining free jazz and electric funk. Three notable vets of free funk bands periodically team up to get ...