• Skip to main content
  • Skip to primary sidebar
  • Skip to footer
  • HOME
  • NEWS+OPINIONS
    • NEWS TO US
    • COLUMNS
      • APPARENT HORIZON
      • DEAR READER
      • Close
    • LONGFORM FEATURES
    • OPINIONS
    • EDITORIAL
    • Close
  • ARTS+ENTERTAINMENT
    • FILM
    • MUSIC
    • COMEDY
    • PERFORMING ARTS
    • VISUAL ARTS
    • Close
  • DINING+DRINKING
    • EATS
    • SIPS
    • BOSTON BETTER BEER BUREAU
    • Close
  • LIFESTYLE
    • CANNABIS
      • TALKING JOINTS MEMO
      • Close
    • WELLNESS
    • GTFO
    • Close
  • STUFF TO DO
  • TICKETS
  • ABOUT US
    • ABOUT
    • MASTHEAD
    • ADVERTISE
    • PRIVACY POLICY
    • Close
  • BECOME A MEMBER

Dig Bos

The Dig - Boston's Only Newspaper

Funk

INTERVIEW: ANTIBALAS MAKES “INVESTMENT WITH MUSIC AND CULTURE”

Written by ROB DUGUAY Posted March 11, 2020 Filed Under: MUSIC

antibalas

I spoke with founder and baritone saxophonist Martin Perna about the making of Fu Chronicles, being in your favorite band’s favorite band, the state of music education in America, and a certain new collaboration he’s involved in.

Filed Under: MUSIC Tagged With: albums, concerts, Funk, Interviews, Jazz, Music, The Sinclair, world music

SAUCY LADY: AT THE INTERSECTION OF VINTAGE BARBIE AND THE FUNK AND DISCO ETHOS

Written by Posted April 3, 2019 Filed Under: Interviews, MUSIC

With confidence, sensuality, and just a touch of silliness, Carmichael aims to keep on fanning funky flames, all for the betterment of Boston.

Filed Under: Interviews, MUSIC Tagged With: Boston, DJ, Funk, Music, nightlife, Saucy Lady, Supanova

FOTOBOM: KHRUANGBIN @ ROYALE

Written by TIM BUGBEE Posted December 9, 2018 Filed Under: Fotobom, MUSIC, Reviews

 

Some bands have a pretty distinct aesthetic when it comes to their music, how it sounds and how it’s presented. Khruangbin have taken that vision and run with it, all the way to the tailor and back. Laying down the most laid-back grooves one can think of, they coolly play a brand of music ...  read more

Filed Under: Fotobom, MUSIC, Reviews Tagged With: Boston, Fotobom, Funk, Khruangbin, Psych, royale, soul, Will Van Horn

WHEEL OF TUNES: PARLIAMENT FUNKADELIC

Written by NINA CORCORAN Posted February 16, 2018 Filed Under: Interviews, MUSIC

Legendary funk icon George Clinton talks Men in Black, bad drugs, and why he gets so many jaywalking violations.

Filed Under: Interviews, MUSIC Tagged With: 2018, Bootsy Collins, Boston, Dig, DigBoston, Funk, George Clinton, house of blues, Interview, James Brown, Mothership Connection, Music, Parliament, Parliament Funkadelic, The Black Panther, Wheel of Tunes

LOVE AT FIRST CITE: CAMINO 84 CRAFTS VALENTINE’S DAY MIXTAPES

Written by NINA CORCORAN Posted February 12, 2018 Filed Under: Interviews, MUSIC, Notes from the Scene

Local disco funk artist Camino 84 is serving up handmade Valentine’s Day mixtapes to help set the mood this holiday.

Filed Under: Interviews, MUSIC, Notes from the Scene Tagged With: 2018, Allston, Be Like Max, Boston, Boston Music Awards, Camino 84, Cassette, Dig, DigBoston, Disco, Electronic, Funk, Interview, local music, mixtape, Music, New Mutant Disco, Notes From the Scene, O'Brien's Pub, Peter Stevens, Threat Level Burgundy, Valentine's Day

SINKANE: RADICAL POSITIVITY IN A TIME OF TOTAL DESPAIR

Written by NINA CORCORAN Posted February 16, 2017 Filed Under: Interviews, MUSIC

Funk psych musician Sinkane radiates light... and you can too if you follow his advice.

Filed Under: Interviews, MUSIC Tagged With: 2017, African Music, Allston, Atomic Bomb! Band, Beastie Boys, Blood Orange, Blur, Bob Marley, Boston, David Byrne, Dig, DigBoston, Funk, great scott, Hot Chip, Interview, Interviews, lcd soundsystem, Music, No BS! Brass Band, Psych-rock, Sinkane, The Macrotones, William Onyeabor

CONFIDENCE BOOSTER: THAO & THE GET DOWN STAY DOWN GET FUNKY

Written by NINA CORCORAN Posted April 8, 2016 Filed Under: Interviews, MUSIC

San Francisco's sunny singer uplifts herself and listeners with some help from tUnE-yArDs.

Filed Under: Interviews, MUSIC Tagged With: 2016, A Man Alive, Boston, Cambridge, Dig, DigBoston, Dinner, Five Principles For Feeding the Planet, Folk Rock, Funk, indie folk, Interview, Oxfam, San Francisco, Thao & The Get Down Stay Down, The Sinclair, tUnE-yArDs, We The Common, World Hunger

DAY ONE: BOSTON CALLING IS CASUALLY COOL

Written by NINA CORCORAN Posted May 23, 2015 Filed Under: Fotobom, MUSIC, Reviews

Boston Calling winds up becoming the chillest version of a festival thanks to Beck, Tame Impala, and Sharon Van Etten.

Filed Under: Fotobom, MUSIC, Reviews Tagged With: 2015, Beck, Boston, boston calling, City Hall Plaza, Dig, DigBoston, Folk, Fotobom, Funk, Indie Rock, live, Psych-rock, review, Sharon Van Etten, Tame Impala

REVIEW: GHOSTFACE KILLAH STAYS IN HIS SWEET COMFORT ZONE ON ’36 SEASONS’

Written by MARTIN CABALLERO Posted December 9, 2014 Filed Under: MUSIC, Reviews

GHOSTFACE KILLAH: 36 SEASONS

 

LABEL | TOMMY BOY
GENRE | REVENGE RAP REDUX
RELEASE DATE | 12.9.14

 

Ghostface has a pretty sweet comfort zone; in this current phase of his career (this album, plus last year’s 12 Reasons to Die and the forthcoming full-length  ...  read more

Filed Under: MUSIC, Reviews Tagged With: 12 Reasons to Die, 36 Seasons, BADBADNOTGOOD, Brooklyn, Dig Boston, DigBoston, Double Cross, Emergency Procedure, Funk, Ghostface, Love Don’t Live Here No More, Pharaoh Monch, soul, The Revelations

SICK BURN: BUDOS BAND LIGHTS A PSYCH ROCK FIRE WITH NEW ALBUM

Written by MARTIN CABALLERO Posted November 20, 2014 Filed Under: Uncategorized

Burnt Offering takes the Budos Band sound on a detour into heavier, weirder psych-rock territory. When there’s a hooded wizard straight out of Middle Earth holding a lantern on the cover (drawn by drummer Brian Profilio), you should know what you’re in for.

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: Afrobeat, Brian Profilio, Budos II, Budos III, Burnt Offering, Dig Boston, DigBoston, Ethiopian jazz, Funk, Jared Tankel, Mulatu Astatke, Music, rock, soul, The Budos Band

Primary Sidebar

FEATURED EVENT

Advertisement

Most Popular

  • Dig This: The Return Of the Boston Seafood Festival
  • No Smoking, No Thank You. Advocates Decry Cannabis Social Consumption Rules in Mass
  • Meet the Phantom Behind Greater Boston’s Awesome Food Feed Everybody Gotta Eat
  • Dig This: The Hot Dog Safari Food Truck & Craft Beer Festival
  • Why This Pit Kid Is Not Going to ‘Pit-A-Palooza’

Footer

Social Buttons

DigBoston facebook DigBoston Twitter DigBoston Instagram

Masthead

About

Advertise

Privacy Policy

Customer Service

Distribution

About Us

DigBoston is a one-stop nexus for everything worth doing or knowing in the Boston area. It's an alt-weekly, it's a website, it's an e-mail blast, it's a twitter account, it's that cool party that you were at last night ... hey, you're reading it, so it's gotta be good. For advertising inquiries: [email protected] To reach Editorial: [email protected] For internship opportunities: [email protected]