Damon Riddick, also known as Dam-Funk, will be performing today as part of Campus Events Commission’s free concert series. Riddick, an L.A.-based modern funk musician, spoke to Daily Bruin’s Marjorie ...

Modern funk artist and producer XL Middleton remembers vividly the first day he visited Long Beach. He was 11 years old and his father took him out on a weekend drive. “Where do you want to go, son?” ...

For those of a certain age, the words “funk music” bring to mind some of the great acts of the 20th century’s second half. James Brown. Sly and the Family Stone. Ohio Players. The Isley Brothers.

In summer 1991, Damon Riddick sat patiently behind his keyboard at a small studio in Reno, Nev., wondering if the infamous lip-syncing crew Milli Vanilli was ever going to show up. Legendary fu In ...

Los Angeles is to funk music what Berlin is to techno, what Switzerland is to chocolate, what South Beach is to steroids. We might not have invented the form, but it has flourished here. Among ...

Even hunched over a turntable in the cramped, overflowing record room of his LA abode, Dam-Funk is elegantly chill. During an hour-plus Boiler Room Collections DJ set he recorded in 2015, the Stones ...

“I was tired of seeing the bell-bottomed guy with the rainbow Afro on compilation covers. It made a mockery of what funk is.” The last time New York was privy to the backlit neon glow of Los Angeles’ ...

When it comes to the school of modern boogie and funk, Dam-Funk is the guru; a spiritual and encyclopedic center, an open channel for all things drum-machine and synth. A quick ear on any of his solo ...

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