JC Brooks on how ‘The Neon Jungle’ straddles genres to retool the uptown funk sound

“As long as people hear our music, I don’t mind how they do it. It’s all about getting people out to see a show.” There’s a new sheriff of Uptown Funk in town, and JC Brooks is his name. Brooks, a kinetically charged, genre-bending vocalist/lyricist/bandleader who currently calls Chicago his home, is a man who […]

Zac Brown’s funk experiment Sir Rosevelt promises to be the soundtrack to summer

Willing to take a left turn from the Grammy award winning country roads that have brought him superstar status and success he is eager to flex his creative muscles and try out different paths of music. Explaining the roots of his current side project Sir Rosevelt, Zac said: “Jekyll and Hyde was a lot of […]

Anime, Video Games, and Funk Flow Together In Thundercat’s Drunk

Thundercat on stage rocking feathers and scale armor gauntlets. Image credit: Eli Watson Thundercat is a bassist who blends video games into everything he does, and whose latest album situates references to Mobile Suit Gundum and Sonic at the heart of new electronic soul music. Drive around Grand Theft Auto V’s Los Santos for long […]