Jazz-funk supergroup Nitecap has released its debut album, Things of That Nature, a 10-track set of original compositions that harkens on the contemporary synth-laden soul with jazz-funk and fusion ...

Aaron Funk's latest album was created and performed live on a modular synth with no overdubbing and editing; it's one of the more beautiful records from the project in recent memory. Still, in this ...

“You Dropped a Bomb on Me” came up one position short in 1982, but the synth-funk dance-floor favorite is their best-loved song, complete with sonic explosions and a rigorous, nonstop beat. Subscribe ...

Last week, the Los Angeles producer DāM-FunK announced the impending release of his new EP Architecture III. It’s the third release in a series where DāM-FunK explores electronic music, and this one ...

In The Number Ones, I'm reviewing every single #1 single in the history of the Billboard Hot 100, starting with the chart's beginning, in 1958, and working my way up into the present. During one of ...

PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) -- One man's love for synth funk has led him to the streets of Philadelphia. You may have already spotted him. He's hard to miss. He carries a keytar and 70 pounds of equipment.

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, ...