The founding fathers of funk are stretching out in a Big Easy kind of way as George Porter, David Russell Batiste and Brian Stoltz of the Funky Meters bring their funky jam to Vail today. “It’s a new ...

The funky Meters rolled into The Birchmere in Alexandria, VA on Friday, October 7th, kicking off a short run through the northeast. The Birchmere is one of America’s classic listening rooms. The ...

If you want to get technical about it, the name Funky Meters is redundant – because what would funk be without the Meters? When keyboardist Art Neville, bassist George Porter Jr., drummer Zigaboo ...

Funk predates rock ’n’ roll. The highly syncopated form can be traced back to 1953, when jazz pianist Horace Silver began recording original songs such as “Opus de Funk” for Blue Note Records. With ...

The Meters were straight-up one of the funkiest bands ever. Put them next to James Brown, Fela, or any other groove scientists. The Meters had a New Orleans feel to their slinky guitar-and-organ sound ...

The Funk owes George Porter Jr. a lot. But The Funk ain’t payin’. Hip-hop producers shower Porter’s band, the Meters, with the most sincere form of flattery: sampling the group’s sinewy grooves to ...

The Funky Meters are direct descendents of a line of super-funky New Orleans players. In fact, two members helped found the original band, The Meters, who played as Allen Toussaint’s house band during ...

Were you SEEN at Alive at Five watching The Funky Meters, with opening act Wurliday on Thursday July 13, 2017 in Albany, NY? Were you SEEN at Alive at Five watching The Funky Meters, with opening act ...

Funky Meters is a good name for any band. However, the band that actually calls itself Funky Meters contains two original members of the legendary New Orleans R&B quartet The Meters and basically ...

Formed during an informal jam during the 1989 New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival, Art Neville, George Porter Jr., and Russell Batiste Jr., founded what would be the core of the funky METERS. The ...