With 95 categories, the Grammy Awards offer plenty of opportunity for records to be made or broken. We spotlight 21 of them.

It began, like so many memorable music stories do, with a British icon and the younger upstart who loved his style. The icon ...

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Will Puerto Rican reggaeton-music superstar Bad Bunny and K-pop finally rule at the Grammy Awards? Here is our preview of the ...

Let’s be real, arguments about the greatest albums of this century are basically never-ending. Music fans can get pretty ...

Denver funk band Wild Love Tigress formed when the world was about to end…or so people thought. It was 2012, and many were grappling with how the Mayan Long Count calendar ended on December 21; in ...

There have been a lot of words to describe good funk music. Dirty. Gritty. Grimy. When done right, funk should make your face scrunch up, your head nod and your body move in ways even you might not ...

For those of a certain age, the words “funk music” bring to mind some of the great acts of the 20th century’s second half. James Brown. Sly and the Family Stone. Ohio Players. The Isley Brothers.

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, ...

Kendrick Lamar’s To Pimp a Butterfly wasn’t just an album—it was a bold reimagining of what hip-hop could be. By collaborating with jazz musicians like Kamasi Washington and Thundercat, Kendrick fused ...

In an episode of "The Right Time With Bomani Jones" dating back to 2019, Bun B regaled the podcast host with a story about meeting D'Angelo while recording in New York. Pimp C, a super producer in his ...