City Cat Radio, the weekly radio program of Oakland’s own DJ/Producer/Engineer DJ HENROC, is designed to celebrate plain old good music including Soul, Roots, Reggae, Dancehall, Soca, Afro Beat, Funk, ...

Instead of emphasizing chord changes and melody, funk accentuated heavily syncopated beats and rhythmic and repetitive bass lines.

Dynamic Kung Fu cinema joins forces with the beat of the street to rock the Center for the Arts Friday, when DJ 2-Tone Jones mounts the stage for the Discovery!

Twenty years later J Dilla’s final masterpiece remains a timeless, soulful blueprint for the future of hip-hop.

Artpark has added another artist to their summer concert lineup, and this one brings a twist to country music. Charley ...

Pop’s most reliable showman, Bruno Mars, released his long-awaited fourth solo studio album “The Romantic” Friday — his first ...

Recently I’ve been listening to a lot of neo soul, a genre born in the 1990s that blends elements of the 1970s soul genre and funk, jazz, hip-hop and other musical traditions. The music feels both ...

The ninth studio album from Gorillaz combines global sounds, political topics and themes of personal loss – and shows why Damon Albarn's project is still one of the most exciting in pop music.

The indie music festival M3F returns to Steele Indian School Park in Phoenix on March 6-7. Here are the best and worst things ...

This one’s for music lovers who enjoy good beats with great bites. In the heart of the lively Burgos Circle in Bonifacio ...

Broussard recently announced the forthcoming release of Chance Worth Taking, his first full album of original blues soul ...

To that end, there’s a moment on The Pleasure Is Yours, Liv.e and Riggins’ debut album as GENA, that I can’t shake. It’s on the song “Unspokern,” a hushed, sultry gem where Liv.e’s voice hovers just ...