When you look back on the last half-century of backbeat-driven, hard-pocket funk, it’s strange that one of the genre’s major innovators was inspired to start playing because of the square, oompah ...

Song requests stink, until they don't. This is the story behind the all-request 1976 one-hit wonder "Play That Funky Music".

Master masher-upper DJ Cummerbund is back! For his latest creation that absolutely should not work but totally does, the viral videologist blended Rammstein’s “Du Hast” and Wild Cherry’s “Play That ...

For years, I heard "Play That Funky Music" as some kind of statement of racial solidarity. The white boy singing the song, Wild Cherry frontman Rob Parissi, knew that nobody would expect a white boy ...

Luther Vandross' music still lives on after his death. On May 31, Primary Wave Music, in partnership with Vandross' estate, will be releasing the official music video to the singer's hit 1976 song ...