P BS’s Independent Lens series tackles the history and cultural impact of funk music in its latest 90-minute documentary, We ...

Bootsy Collins, who released a new album, is the type of person who can illustrate an idea as if reading it from a tome of spells.

Twelve-year-old bass virtuoso Ellen Alaverdyan (better known as @ellenplaysbass on Instagram and YouTube) looks nervous as ...

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Funk music was a bold sound that perfectly encapsulated post-civil rights Black Pride. 'We Want The Funk!' tells the story of ...

Some of the best funk songs of all time sound just as fresh as they did when they came out decades ago, which is beyond rare.

With a new album arriving, why everyone from the biggest fans to Kamala Harris is calling for a brighter light on Bootzilla.

"Once you get the funk out there, it's not going back. You can't put it back in the box," says filmmaker Stanley Nelson. His ...

Directors Stanley Nelson and Nicole London discuss their new documentary We Want the Funk! on Deadline's Doc Talk podcast.

And a new documentary from PBS — “We Want the Funk!”— serves as a timely demonstration of how artistic moments and political ...

This brisk 80-minute documentary is a wall-to-wall commemoration of a genre by the people who love it the most.

A new documentary examines the golden age of funk music, when large, often interracial bands lay down syncopated grooves that packed dance floors. John Blake says that today’s pop music, largely ...