Fans of blues, funk, and soul should mark January 9 and 10 on their calendar, as The Chris Canas Band will be performing at ...

Guns N’ Roses’ 2008 album Chinese Democracy was 14 years in the making at a reported cost of $13m – and a small part of that gigantic budget was spent on hiring drummer Josh Freese. In stark contrast, ...

Anybody unfamiliar with the importance of funk pioneer George Clinton who stumbled into the House of Blues on Friday night might have been a bit perplexed. Why were so many people in the crowd attired ...

He’s played it a million times, but Grand Funk Railroad’s Don Brewer never tires of performing “We’re an American Band.” The rowdy former No. 1 hit always draws a reaction. “I get a charge when I see ...

For the fourth year, friends, family, and supporters of Mudgie's Deli and Wine Shop founder Greg Mudge are asking the Detroit City Council to name a street near the restaurant in his honor. The ...

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 ...

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The women of Parliament-Funkadelic. (Top L-R) Parlets Debbie Wright, Mallia Franklin, and Shirley Hayden. (Bottom L-R) Brides Lynn Mabry and Dawn Silva. The funk collective Parliament-Funkadelic is ...

Life gets tiring — eventually, it’s all so boring. Same routine day in and day out, monotony becomes mandatory and breaking away gets more difficult by the day — wait! Starchildren of the universe, ...

Ivan Neville was in high school when The Wild Tchoupitoulas recorded its seminal 1976 album at Sea-Saint Studios. He can’t remember if he had visited the studio during those sessions — maybe he had ...

It’s safe to say that they don’t make musicians like they used to. It seems a trite point, but in reality, who are there on the contemporary scene that, in terms of personality and cultural relevance, ...