Dua Lipa performs during the 66th GRAMMY Awards at Crypto.com Arena in Los Angeles on Feb. 4, 2024. Photo by Kevin Winter/Getty Images for The Recording Academy. If you’re a regular reader of this column, you may have noticed that I’m often profoundly lazy. For example, in 2021 I…

Kool & The Gang, “People Just Wanna Have Fun.” The last album by Kool & the Gang, 2021’s Perfect Union, was a more mature, more sophisticated album of chill-out music that showed the band’s range and evolution. This made sense; it’d just lost founding members Dennis “Dee Tee” Thomas…

If you’re a casual follower of Kool & the Gang you probably know them for “Jungle Boogie” and, especially if you attend Oakland A’s games, “Celebration.” You think of the heyday of ’70s funk music; blaring horns, frenetic energy, the whole band shouting the chorus or even the whole…

The producers of the annual Stern Grove Festival today announced that Grammy Award-winning funk band Kool and the Gang will headline the festival’s 80th anniversary Big Picnic kick-off show. The event will take place June 25 this year, with local soul artist Quinn DeVeaux opening. The admission-free concert will take place at…