Bass Week: The word ‘funk’ or ‘funky’ can be applied to almost anything, from butt-shaking basslines to scatter cushions. We all instinctively know what’s implied, but in a bass playing sense, what ...

There’s nobody like Bootsy, baby. The man born William Collins is the bass guitar’s main ambassador to the furthest reaches of outer and inner space. His peerless funk resume, including stints with ...

Fatboy Slim, Halfway Between the Gutter and the Stars (Astralwerks): What a beautiful, appropriate album title. For his fourth full-length CD of infectious electronic pop, British DJ Fatboy Slim finds ...

Don’t even try to label it. (It’s jazz, right? R&B?) It’s pointless, trying to pigeonhole the groove-dominated music on “Cellar Funk,” the brilliant album by British band Down to the Bone. Jazzy ...