Funky Knuckles Feat. Cameron McCloud from Cure for Paranoia at Windmills Brewery

At Windmills Brewery · https://www.grandscape.com/venue/windmills/ The Funky Knuckles belong to a new generation of improvising musicians, challenging the constraints of genre, while never losing sight of the groove. This is not your typical funk band… or jam band… or jazz band. The Funky Knuckles are something different entirely. This is the improvised music of the new generation, and it is continuously being re-defined, even as it is performed. In recent years, Texas has gained a reputation as a hotbed for groove-oriented improvised music, and The Funky Knuckles have been a part of that movement for over a decade. It is a common occurrence to hear world-class musicians sitting in at their weekly residency in Dallas, and band members can be seen as sidemen with Janet Jackson, Stanley Clarke, and Larry Carlton. Cameron McCloud is a magnetic songwriter, frontman, and driving force behind Cure for Paranoia, the powerhouse alternative hip-hop collective taking the national music scene by storm. Crowned as the winners of the 2026 NPR Tiny Desk Contest out of more than 6,000 nationwide submissions, McCloud and his Dallas-bred bandmates—producers Tomahawk Jonez and Jay Analog—have solidified their status as true hometown legends.