Funky Friday Episode 90: Oaktown Funk brings our American funk city tour home to Oakland. From Sly & The Family Stone and Tower of Power to the Pointer Sisters, Digital Underground, MC Hammer, and contemporary funksters The Grease Traps, we celebrate the city's unmistakable groove and the musicians who helped shape it. Ten episodes. Nine cities. One homecoming.

Juneteenth commemorates freedom delayed, but not denied. This week on Funky Friday, we explore freedom through the music that has carried generations forward. From The Isley Brothers, Curtis Mayfield, and Sly & The Family Stone to Parliament, Earth, Wind & Fire, The O'Jays, The Gap Band, and Stevie Wonder, Episode 72 follows the many ways artists have expressed freedom through groove, community, perseverance, self-expression, and joy. Turn it up. Move on up.

Funky Friday Episode 64 moves beneath the surface of funk. Past the hooks and into the engine room, where rhythm is built through timing, space, and control.

Funky Friday Episode 59 explores how groove travels across genres and geography. From deep funk foundations to Irish soul and rhythm, the pocket remains the constant. St. Paddy’s Funk follows the groove from its roots to a final moment of celebration.

Funky Friday Episode 52 marks the one-year anniversary with a set focused on endurance over nostalgia, resistance without posture, and funk as a signal that holds.