June 22, 2024 marked the return of the Stone Soul Music and Food Festival in Richmond, Virginia, following a five-year hiatus of the venerable event. Soul, funk, and R&B are the heartbeat of America.

Funk music has been around since the 1960s, developing out of gospel, R&B and soul, with a distinct emphasis on “syncopated bass lines and steady, infectious drum grooves,” according to one ...

Born from the collision of funk’s irresistible grooves and psychedelic rock’s mind-expanding textures, psychedelic funk reshaped music in the late ’60s and ’70s. Acts like Parliament-Funkadelic turned ...