Funk Rock
Funk rock fuses the syncopated bass lines and rhythms of funk with the loud guitars and energy of rock.
The bass carries the groove and sits at the front of the mix, the guitar plays choppy, rhythmic chords, and the drums stay tight and danceable. It grew out of late 1960s and 1970s American funk and rock and had a surge of popularity in the 1980s and 1990s. The groove matters more than in most rock, which sets it apart from hard rock.
Artists it is known for: Red Hot Chili Peppers, Funkadelic, Prince.
- Family
- Rock
- On Spotify
- A current genre
- What it is
- A genre
- From
- United States, late 1960s
- Trackify listeners who play it
- 8%
About 6,900 of 83,000 Trackify listeners with public profiles have funk rock among their top artists of the last four weeks. Rounded; updated 13 November 2026.
Funk Rock artists
Red Hot Chili Peppers
Prince
Incubus
Talking Heads
Primus
311
Snot
Bloodhound Gang
INXS
Faith No MoreThe funk rock artists most Trackify listeners have in their top fifty. Each opens on Spotify.
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The definition is written for this site from open sources, and was checked against them on 13 November 2026.