Artist: Tapes ‘n Tapes Review: It may strut its funky virtuosity like Prince, threaten to collapse in a drunken heap like the Replacements or rage like Hüsker Dü, but Minneapolis rock is always tuneful — an important comfort to folks freezing their nuts off most of the year. On the follow-up to their 2006 debut, The Loon, Minnesota’s Tapes ‘n Tapes hew to tradition, conjuring the Hüskers on “Le …
Five white boys from El Paso are playing that funky music (or should we say “fungi” music) at Mountain Annie’s this weekend, March 28-29. The band Fungi Mungle has found a beautiful niche in the El Paso area for audiences looking for something different.
Toledo is going to get a little funky this summer when Earth, Wind Fire comes…
Chris McGreal reports from Harare as Zimbabwe awaits the result of its presidential election
Tone Loc plans to play shows at two bars in the Detroit area that were swindled by a man posing as the rapper’s manager.
Anyone who thinks that Berkeley is just a hotbed of political radicalism is in for a surprise. The town?s main drag has more hipsters with BlackBerrys than hippies with beards.
More than just gimmicky goofballs with a penchant for outlandish costumes, Gnarls Barkley’s Cee-Lo Green and DJ Danger Mouse make some of the most deceptively funky songs about maladjusted behavior and alienation. Their unavoidable 2006 hit “Crazy” from their brilliant debut disc, “St. Elsewhere,” may have sounded like a call to party, but it’s really a tension-filled rumination about psychosis.
Milford is known for its quaint downtown and a fruitless search for the remains of Jimmy Hoffa — not as a hotbed for national rap artists looking to play a show. But on April 11, Tone Loc — of “Wild Thing” and “Funky Cold Medina” fame in the late 1980s — is to play the Red Dog Saloon, ending a long, strange journey that started out as a scam.
Funky fashionista and actress extraordinaire Chloë Sevigny recently designed her own clothing line for New York boutique Opening Ceremony.
By FELICIA PINKNEY The lumber had been standing in the corner for years. Instead of storage, we had “floorage,” with stacks of books and magazines here and there. The toolbox belonged elsewhere, and so did the broken fax machine. But the real 500-pound gorilla was the bright blue slide that sat in the middle of what was supposed to be our home office. Even though we’re a creative couple — my …