Dave Pehling is website managing editor for CBS Bay Area. He started his journalism career doing freelance writing about music in the late 1990s, eventually working as a web writer, editor and ...
The Mothership will officially land at the Detroit Opera House on Saturday, Jan. 31, when funk god and godfather of modern hip hop George Clinton will helm a one-night-only performance celebrating 50 ...
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (WCTV) - The Word of South Festival is a celebration of literature and music. The event is a blend of writers and musicians, and an exploration of the relationship between the two ...
Dave Pehling is website managing editor for CBS Bay Area. He started his journalism career doing freelance writing about music in the late 1990s, eventually working as a web writer, editor and ...
Fishbone and George Clinton & Parliament/Funkadelic would seem a match made in funk heaven– especially since the members of Fishbone grew up as devotees of all things P-Funk. “There was a time when ...
Calvin Simon, whose voice gave harmony to the sound of Parliament-Funkadelic and landed him in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, passed away Jan. 6 in San Antonio, Fla., said his assistant Bobbi Vickers ...
Panel discussion, book signing and artifact donation noon-2 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 25, at the National Museum of African American Music The impact of Parliament-Funkadelic members Mallia Franklin, Debbie ...
Ain't no party like a P-Funk birthday party. George Clinton and Parliament Funkadelic brought lots of funk and smiles Friday, March 18, to the New Jersey Performing Arts Center in Newark in a show ...
George Clinton did not seem at all like a man on the verge of retiring from the road as he gave up the funk with the latest edition of Parliament-Funkadelic Saturday night in Phoenix, rocking the ...
Garrett Shider was never going to do that diaper thing. That was his father’s signature. Garry Shider — longtime singer, guitarist, songwriter and music director with George Clinton’s legendary ...
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Top 40 Funk Songs

The foundations of funk were laid down in the mid-1960s, when James Brown began to emphasize the first beat of each measure in his stage-tested and frenzy-inducing R&B songs. Before the decade’s end, ...