Synthesizing the Silk Roads: Uzbek Disco, Tajik Folktronica, Uyghur Rock & Crimean Tatar Jazz from 1980s Soviet Central Asia is out now through Ostinato Records. By Katie Bain The former USSR might ...

The underdog made it to the top of the Billboard charts on more than one occasion in the 1980s, and we love to see it.

(ThyBlackMan.com) When you think about soul and funk legends of the ‘70s and ‘80s, certain names dominate the headlines — but true music lovers know Carl Carlton belongs firmly in that conversation.

Here's a tour of the uptown funk of the early '80s with songs that listeners have heard alluded to in the Mark Ronson/Bruno Mars hit, some fleetingly, some more obviously. By Sean Ross Part of the ...

What happens when you put Jake One (the Seattle hip-hop producer whose beats have been rapped on by State Property’s Freeway, G-Unit's 50 Cent and Mobb Deep’s Prodigy) and Mayer Hawthorne (the Grammy ...

When Frankie Knuckles famously described house music as disco's revenge, it set in motion an origin story tantamount to Charles Darwin's theory of evolution. House and disco have been inextricably ...

Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. Featuring over sixty songs, Decades Rewind effortlessly blends unique medleys from ...

But we have to leave out a part of his definition. "Well, the word funk, I have a different take on it from maybe what you've heard -- I don't know if you even want to print it," he said from his ...