NPR's Ayesha Rascoe speaks to a patron of the party, musician George Brown of the band Kool & The Gang, about his new book, new record, and the "Celebration" of a long and funky career. When it comes ...

The trailblazer from Jersey City, whose music melds jazz, funk, soul, R&B, disco and pop, has been at it for 60 years now. Kool & the Gang took flight just a few years after Bell and his younger ...

Hip-hop was born at a party in 1973, but it'd be another six years until the first commercial hip-hop records. People have differing views of it, but the release of "Rapper's Delight" changed history.

London punks Chubby and the Gang embrace the agony and ecstasy of love on their new Valentine’s Day track, “Who Loves Ya (Coup d’état).” The song appears on a new three-track EP, Labour of Love, which ...

Last year, UK punks Chubby And The Gang ended their terrific debut album Speed Kills with "Grenfell Forever," a tender Billy Bragg-style protest song dedicated to all the people killed in the London ...

London punk outfit Chubby and the Gang have released a new song, “I Hate the Radio,” from their upcoming album, The Mutt’s Nuts, out August 27th via Partisan. “I Hate the Radio” is a lovelorn tune ...

A rising drill rapper whose music celebrated gang violence has been sentenced to 30 years in federal prison for leading a ...