NOLA Funk Fest announced that this year it will be ushering in some of the most celebrated and passionate artists to represent the funk that percolated from the Crescent City’s fertile musical soil on the […]
Grand Funk Railroad have announced a US tour celebrating the 50th anniversary of their 1973 album We’re an American Band and its hit title track. The veteran rockers will kick things off with an appearance […]
GRAND FUNK RAILROAD celebrates the 50th anniversary of its 1973 “We’re An American Band” platinum single and album with 2023’s “The American Band Tour”, performing multiple shows across the country and dynamically underlining their trademark […]
The family of Gap Band members Robert and Ronnie Wilson have filed a lawsuit against BMG for unpaid royalties on the Bruno Mars and Mark Ronson 2014 song “Uptown Funk.” Rolling Stone reports that BMG […]
The Gap Band heirs are officially suing BMG for allegedly failing to pay owed royalties stemming from the incorporation of 1979’s “Oops Upside Your Head” in Mark Ronson and Bruno Mars’ “Uptown Funk” (2014). The […]
Benzino is calling out DJ Khaled and Funkmaster Flex for using him to get famous. The former owner of The Source took to Twitter this week to issue a lengthy rant in which he took shots at the pair for taking advantage […]
Dry Cleaning’s second album isn’t a radical departure from last year’s outstanding New Long Leg. Florence Shaw still has the laconic, deadpan delivery of someone idly chatting over a garden fence. However, everything is slightly […]
Photo Credit: Dino Perrucci On Wednesday, Oct. 12, Grammy-nominated New Orleans-based funk troupe Cha Wa performed at New York’s Brooklyn Bowl. During their show on the Williamsburg stage, the high-energy ensemble worked through a selection […]
As Lil Baby gears up to drop his new album It’s Only Me, the Atlanta rap star returned to Hot 97 with Funk Flex to once again drop a fiery freestyle, this time tackling a […]
Just a week after Funk Flex challenged him to drop a track from DMX’s vault, Swizz Beatz delivered, and the Hot 97 DJ on Friday premiered an unreleased song from the Yonkers rapper. Earlier this month, Flex teased the existence […]
Joyner Lucas paid a visit to Hot 97 this week to drop an impressive freestyle for Funk Flex. The session was inspired by Joyner’s 2015 track “Backwords,” which featured the Worcester, Massachusetts rapper spitting his bars […]
Following quickly on from “Good Life” and “Searchin”, fraternal Essex trio Rayowa are back with “Remember”, their third single in as many months. A mix of R&B, pop, funk and disco that’s won them the […]
Earlier this year, it was revealed that Calvin Harris had bought an organic farm in Ibiza. For a moment, it looked as though the 38-year-old, Dumfries-born DJ was giving up his crown as king of […]
Over five years after its predecessor, the release of Calvin Harris‘ Funk Wav Bounces Vol. 2 album is just about a week away. The last few months have been tantamount to torture for fans of […]
Welcome back, Calvin Harris! Finally, our favourite Scottish producer is making a massive comeback with a brand new, much-awaited album. GRAMMY Award-winning, multi-platinum selling artist and phenomenal music producer Calvin Harris has confirmed the release date and […]
Funk Flex is wondering why he makes “so many people so upset” after being criticized as an out-of-touch “gatekeeper” by Conway the Machine. As you may have seen being shared across social media in recent […]
Calvin Harris has announced the release date and features for his upcoming album Funk Wav Bounces Vol. 2 and dropped its second single “New Money” featuring 21 Savage. A sequel to 2017’s Funk Wav Bounces […]
Is it really summer without new music from Calvin Harris? The last few weeks have been tantamount to torture for fans of the chart-topping “Summer” producer, who has been cryptically teasing the follow-up to his influential […]
Denzel Curry, whose recently released Melt My Eyez See Your Future album should absolutely be in constant rotation for you and yours, gave fans something new on Tuesday. Up top, see footage of Denzel delivering […]
Speculation around Calvin Harris‘ list of collaborators who will appear on the hotly anticipated Funk Wav Bounces Vol. 2 continues to grow after the superstar DJ teased new music with none other than the Doggfather […]