But there's always room for a funk band that can deliver live.
And it's certainly not a name that suits Mexico's hardest funk outfit.
With an eclectic mix of electro and alt-pop influences ranging from Blondie to Daft Punk, Marble Fairy's sound packs a disco-funk punch.
They wanted to preserve the U.S. from a Japanese-style funk following the bursting of the stock-market bubble in 2000--01.
But David, working in his library amid Dickensian piles of documents, turns tyrannical, and falls into a funk that's both painful and instructive to behold.
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In a recognition of that reality, Romney's speech Thursday attempted to conjure a more general American funk, which the GOP nominee cast as a result of overhyped promises four years ago.
Singer, DJ, producer and reggae MC, Papa Dee is a well-known face on Stockholm's club scene and regularly tours the world as a solo artist and with New York's Brooklyn Funk Essentials.
It also features former Clash bassist Paul Simonon and the 67-year-old drummer Tony Allen who, as a member Fela Kuti's Nigerian funk band in the '70s, proved himself to be one of the greatest groove stokers in recorded history.
If this plan fails to provide a satisfactory return over four decades between entering the work force and retiring, it will be because the U.S. economy goes into a long-term funk.
Rabbits and Carrots is the strangest name for a funk band this side of Columbus, Ohio's Suspicious Can Openers.
Financial markets were in a general funk, caused in part by America's bank-reform plans and in part by worries about policy-tightening in China.
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Nor did he perform his new single "Screwdriver" that debuted earlier this year, opting instead for funk covers: Curtis Mayfield's "We're a Winner" and Michael Jackson's "Don't Stop Until You Get Enough" among them as the night dragged on and weary fans made their way to the exits early.
Drummer Shannon Powell represented the city's Treme neighborhood with a panoply of rhythm and a kick drum that bumped the metered funk of Zigaboo Modeliste, the early stomp of Baby Dodds and the bamboula beat of the Caribbean.
Chris Temple, editor of The National Investor, agrees that the U.S. could end up with something similar to the funk that has enveloped Japan for more than a decade.
Stack's sobering perspectives force investors to consider the unpleasant possibility that U.S. equity markets are doomed to follow the lead of Japanese stocks caught in the funk of a 13-year bear market.
Guest host Mary Louise Kelly speaks with Adam Levine and Jesse Carmichael about the group's new and third studio album, "Hands All Over, " which is a mix of funk, soul, rock and country.
Let's give her a round of applause. (Applause.) I have the Deep Fried Funk Band. (Applause.) Yes!
As a result, Detroit's musical DNA was built on country, jazz, soul, gospel, rockabilly, funk and more.
With most of Asia, including Japan, already mired in its worst funk in decades and Russia's economy leveled, the fresh shock seemed to heighten the prospects for a severe worldwide economic drought.
Paul Funk, began in 2007 after a Marine unit moved to the west side of the brigade's sector, cutting off al Qaeda's roads south to Fallujah and north to Tamariyah, Samarra, and Tikrit.
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