Parliament News

Russell Smith Published on Wednesday, Nov. 11, 2009 4:38PM EST W hat constitutes a musical performance? The minister for Fair Trading in New South Wales, Australia, Virginia Judge, has a very strict idea.

'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.

If you like the sounds of Parliament and feet you might want to check out Austin's favorite foot fetish funk band Foot Patrol .

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.

Maceo Parker Debuts at Jazz at Lincoln Center November 13 & 14 The Allen Room Maceo Parker, perhaps best known as the second-in-command to the legendary James Brown, helped define funk from its origins.

FUNK MARATHON with Soul Sister - Halloween Morning, 12-5am! George Clinton & Parliament-Funkadelic perform live at Voodoo Experience, Halloween Night on the WWOZ/SoCo Stage.

Sure, Solana Beach calls the Belly Up a tavern, but that doesn't mean it's a broken-down watering hole with only Van Halen's 'Panama' playing on the jukebox.

Rapper Eminem performs along with KISS this weekend at Voodoo Experience, the punk and rock music festival to be held amid the live oaks and lagoons at New Orleans City Park.

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 .

"Chocolate City" Uh, what's happening CC? They still call it the White House But that's a temporary condition, too.

Between the King Records ties to James Brown and the thumping funk foundation of Bootsy Collins, Cincinnati has a legitimate claim as one of the cities that helped form the foundation of the vaunted West Coast G-Funk hip-hop sound of the early 1990s.

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.

George Clinton has declared War. Clinton and the 2009 version of Parliament Funkadelic are scheduled to play Nov.

Bootsy Collins, along with is brother, began working as a session musician at King Records when he was 15.

Talking Heads was already a post-punk powerhouse before Jonathan Demme's fabled 1984 concert film Stop Making Sense helped make the band a pop-culture legend.

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.

The heat wave plaguing Orlando is finally taking a brief sabbatical on this Saturday night as Kow finishes a sound check before their set at Barbarella.

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.

Our indefatigable, ubiquitous mayor was...of course...at the Beantown Jazz Festival on Columbus Avenue today.