A little over 10 years ago now, an obscure song from Pretoria, South Africa flipped dancefloors across the Northern Hemisphere on their ears. It was called “Township Funk,” and if you know it, you are ...

What do we mean by “dance songs”? Good question. In a sense, any song that ever got any one person moving in any perceptible direction is a dance song. The Beatles made great dance songs — as did ...

Anitta has dropped a vibrant, upbeat new single, “Funk Rave.” The song marks her first release for her new record label Republic Records in partnership with Universal Music Latin Entertainment. The ...

The foundations of funk were laid down in the mid-1960s, when James Brown began to emphasize the first beat of each measure in his stage-tested and frenzy-inducing R&B songs. Before the decade’s end, ...

The dancefloor's 100 most essential tracks. The term “dance music” may conjure visions of heaving clubs, packed festival tents and partying with abandon, and certainly these concepts are a substantial ...

Exploring the tale behind 'Dance To The Music', the 1967 smash hit by Sly and the Family Stone which alerted the masses to ...

It was goodbye for one of soccer's most adored national teams. Brazil, five-time World Cup winners, lost to Croatia in the quarterfinals on Friday. Despite the disappointment, the "Joga Bonito" team ...

SALISBURY — The cat is out of the bag as popular dance funk band Ripe was revealed as the headline act for the 21st annual RiverFest music festival, which is moving to Salisbury after several years of ...

A 60-year-old high school dance teacher in Canada has left her students with one final lesson before retiring. Shirley Clements went out with a bang, nailing a hip-hop routine to Bruno Mars' hit song, ...