Funkadelic News

As George Clinton walked on stage at Lehman Center on Saturday night, he brushed aside his iconic neon hair and looked over the crowd sitting comfortably in their seats.

'We really believed that if we did this, we'd be able to support ourselves' Chicago's Pedro Bell was the artist behind some of music's most iconic album covers.

Lehman Center for the Performing Arts will host a special live concert by George Clinton and Parliament/Funkadelic, on Saturday, Nov.

The lights dim in the 437-seat Jarson-Kaplan Theater at the Aronoff Center for the Arts on a recent Thursday evening, casting the murmuring members of the audience into shadow.

Three generations of funk are set to converge at this year's Bear Creek Music & Art Festival Nov.13-15 at the beautiful Spirit of the Suwannee Music Park, voted "Florida's Best Live Music Venue" by readers of Florida Monthly Magazine earlier this year.

The guitar is a strange and wonderful instrument. From its earliest days, it has been the instrument of shepherds and kings alike.

Having trouble deciding what songs by a band are truly worth listening to? Try visiting Rank 'Em, a Web site constructed in 2007 by University graduate Adam Wexler and designed purely for the love of the music.

This Halloween, the music of several famous rock and funk bands will come back from the dead.

It just seems so right that George Clinton, the Godfather of Funk and the ringleader of Parliament Funkadelic, performs at the Voodoo Music Experience on Halloween night .

If the Parliament-Funkadelic's Mothership flew over "The Big Pink" and hit the boys in The Band with the Bop Gun and funky-fied their vibe, you'd get an idea of what to expect when you tune your ears to Karl Denson's Tiny Universe.

There's more to Bernie Worrell than just the funk. A lot more. What makes Worrell Worrell, besides the funk, will be on display when his new group, SociaLybrium, takes the stage Friday, Oct.

See the playlist for October 15, 2009! HOUR 1 #1 Funkadelic One Nation Under A Groove #2 Parliament Flash Light #3 Steely Dan Black Cow #4 Hall & Oates I Can't Go For That #5 Chic Good Times #6 Chic Le Freak #7 Charlie Wilson Can't Live Without You #8 Elton John Bennie And The Jets HOUR 2 #1 Destiny's Child Girl #2 Keyshia Cole Shoulda Let You Go ...

There have been a lot of bands in the history of the universe and most of them, at one point or another, have broken up.

With Flea driving the groove, Radiohead's frontman funks it up. To understand what Thom Yorke is up to with the new ensemble he brought to the Orpheum Theatre on Sunday, it's useful to quote one of pop's surviving godfathers.

Inspired by Motown's assembly line of sound, George Clinton gradually put together a collective of over 50 musicians and recorded the ensemble during the '70s both as Parliament and Funkadelic.

The Third Annual Brew Fest will take place tomorrow from 2 to 10:30 p.m. at the Amesbury Sports Park, 12 South Hunt Road.

If you've tuned in the past couple of weeks, you've heard those hit-me-on-the-one beats of Funkadelic, The Meters and Gil Scott-Heron from Adam Gold's Funk Show replaced by the nationally syndicated Charleston, W. Va-based Mountain Stage .

The #1 Starbucks website September 15, 2009 "Best song I've ever heard at a Starbucks: Maggot Brain-era Funkadelic" That's what business journalist Peter Kafka writes on his Twitter page .

By MARIO TARRADELL George Clinton, back in his Parliament Funkadelic days, once chanted 'We want the funk.' If he were here this weekend, he'd get it.The third annual Fort Worth Musicfest, which runs Friday through Sunday in the Masonic Hall parking lot, features three soul-funk sizzlers: Zapp, Bar-Kays and Morris Day & the Time.

An outlandish, in-your-face stage presence, a strange sense of humor, and a hard-driving funk sound that criss-crossed a few musical boundaries earned Cameo countless comparisons to Parliament/Funkadelic in their early days.