The Monophonics (photo: Joshua Huver) Often mistaken for outright passion or "The Funk," soul as a genre is a musical style that slowed without stopping. Its decline in the mainstream mostly halted in a one-off track on an album here and there helped keep it alive, but soul seems to be gaining new traction. Rather than employ the raw emotion of music on limited tracks, the energetic six-piece groove of San Francisco-based the Monophonics wholeheartedly embrace the fiery inspiration of soul in every note they play. Last Friday, April 15, the sextet squeezed themselves onto the small stage at Moe’s [...]