While some people are content to spend Sunday nights at home, a group of San Francisco DJs have made Sunday the night to hit the dance floor. The tight but amorphous crew behind Sweater Funk digs deep ...

DJs can be a cagey bunch, protective of their knowledge, reluctant to reveal favorite digging spots to even their closest friends or, in the case of Afrika Bambaataa, peeling center labels off in the ...

Sitting in a makeshift studio in the garage behind his Leimert Park, Calif., home, Dam-Funk says he doesn’t know who dubbed him “The Ambassador of Boogie Funk,” but he wants to be clear that he didn’t ...

A needle drops on a turntable, the snare of a drum machine slaps against slippery guitar rhythms and slinky bass grooves, and the dance floor of Original Mike’s in Santa Ana gets shocked back into ...

"I'm not looking to be 'retro' or recreate the exact sound of 1983 or whatever. That nostalgia will get the plane off the ground but it won't keep it in the air, you know?" OKP: Who is XL Middleton?

Better Than: Getting the high score on Miss Pac-Man while listening to Purple Rain. In an alternate universe, James Brown is John Lennon, Parliament Funkadelic is Led Zeppelin, Michael Jackson is ...

Sitting in the makeshift studio in the garage behind his Leimert Park home, Dam-Funk says he doesn’t know who dubbed him “the Ambassador of Boogie Funk,” but he wants to be clear that he didn’t give ...

Jake One and Mayer Hawthorne have been kicking around a philosophical question of late: When does a side project become your main gig? The longtime friends just released their third album as ...

Pro dancer Brandon Armstrong and Chandler Kinney brought the funk on Monday's Soul Train-themed night on Dancing With the Stars. (Disney/Christopher Willard) For over 35 years, Soul Train earned its ...

DJs can be a cagey bunch, protective of their knowledge, reluctant to reveal favorite digging spots to even their closest friends or, in the case of Afrika Bambaataa, peeling center labels off in the ...