Every musical generation tends to put forth a handful of "star players" within any given genre. Whether it be Los Angeles' Wrecking Crew or Motown's Funk Brothers, certain cliques of industry ...
Today, we raise our glasses for Compton's finest, Dr. Dre, as the perennial production powerhouse celebrates his 52nd lap around the sun. No secret that Dre, rap game vet of more than 30 years, has ...
TufAmerica, on behalf of Trouble Funk, recently filed a lawsuit against The Beastie Boys accusing them of copyright infringement for incorporating samples of two Trouble Funk recordings on four ...
NEW YORK — Pianist and composer Joe Sample, a founding member of the genre-crossing Jazz Crusaders and a pioneer of the electronic jazz-funk fusion style, died of complications due to lung cancer ...