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The pocket lives below the waistline, and somebody's gotta hold it down. We ranked the bass grooves that raised us, argued about it for three hours in the van, and lived to tell the tale.
Every genre has its body language, but funk might have the weirdest dictionary. From the two-step lean to the full-body shiver, we catalog the moves that only come out when the pocket gets deep — and we want yours.
Some rooms just play back harder than others. From juke joints with forty-year patinas to converted warehouses where the fog machine is actually just humidity, here are seven venues that keep live funk breathing — plus what to eat after the gig.
Every band is a chain letter from the records that came before. These are the ten albums — from the Godfather himself to the modern revivalists — that taught us how to make a groove bleed.