Childish Gambino Releases New Funk Inspired Album Awaken, My Love! Donald Glover's album is filled with funk-soul vocals and music.

Celebrities Remember Soul Singer Sharon Jones

Titan Of Soul Sharon Jones Dies At 60 From Cancer Jones rekindled the style and power that defined 1960s and '70s soul and funk.

Sharon Jones, soul and funk singer, dies at 60 The soul and funk singer had suffered from pancreatic cancer, and a statement said she died surrounded by loved ones, including from her band

Bruno Mars Sued For Stealing “Uptown Funk” Bruno Mars is again being sued for allegedly stealing “Uptown Funk.” Mark Ronson, who co-wrote and co-produced the hit song, is also named as a defendant. The lawsuit accuses the two of copying a 1983 single called “Young Girls.” The song was Read more ... released by the 1980s funk-soul group Collage, of which o...

Dâm-Funk's Time Machine Boogie A new album by the L.A.-based producer and DJ rescues a vintage style of D.I.Y. synth-based funk from slipping through history's cracks.

Timeline Photos

Classic Rock / Los Angeles Times Today's birthday: James Brown, born May 3, 1933 in Barnwell, S.C., and raised in Augusta, Ga. The man called Soul Brother No. 1, the Hardest Working Man in Show Business and the Godfather of Soul brought the funk to pop music, influencing the sound o Read more ... f rock, R&B, soul and hip-hop for decades to come. It's no surprise he was among the first 10 artists inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1986. This AP photo shows Brown at the Montreux Jazz Festival in 1981.

This “Uptown Funk” parody with dogs is too adorbs for words We know, we know, there have been a LOT of "Uptown Funk" parodies. There was the teachers "Uptown Funk" parody, the Voldemort "Uptown Funk" parody" the Passover-themed "Uptown Funk" parody, the Shaolin monk "Uptown Funk" parody performed by a cast of Read more ... puppets, the list goes on and on. We have just ON…

Where Are They Now? The 'She's All That' Prom Edition Funk. Soul. Brother.