The former USSR might not be considered a musical hotbed, but a new compilation of rare music from the Soviet Union lifts the veil on the vibrant, dance-focused scene that existed there in the 1980s.

A funk band from the South Bronx, ESG recorded for 99 Records and Factory back in the early 1980s. Their stripped-down but deeply polyrhythmic tracks have always crossed over between white and black ...

Faith No More helped create new trends. The band emerged from San Francisco’s underground scene in the 1980s and became known ...

Bruno Mars and Mark Ronson's 2014 hit "Uptown Funk" is the subject of a lawsuit from a 1980s funk band that says they copied their work. TMZ reports that the two artists are being sued by members of ...

A music legend who “played a key role in defining the sound of soul and funk in the 1970s and 1980s” is dead at age 73. Chris Jasper, who was a member of The Isley Brothers, died Sunday, according to ...