Iconic funk band Pleasure took the stage for the first time this year as headliners of the 52nd Annual Oregon Juneteenth Festival at Lillis-Albina Park on Saturday, June 15. Before splitting up in the ...

'80s Funk Icon, 72, Dazzles With Rare Red Carpet Appearance originally appeared on Parade. Charlie Wilson just proved that being cool is simply part of his DNA. On June 9, 2025, the 25th annual BET ...

Lots of innovative bands are before their time, but few go on to shape popular music long after they break up. In the early 1970s, musicians from London’s Afro-Caribbean diaspora formed the group ...

The cover of the newly reissued 1977 LP Yoyi, originally released by Jorge Soler León under the name Grupo los Yoyi Credit: Courtesy of Future Rootz Medina grew up in Cuba, but his voracious appetite ...

Dave Pehling is website managing editor for CBS Bay Area. He started his journalism career doing freelance writing about music in the late 1990s, eventually working as a web writer, editor and ...