Parliament News

Melissa Weber is in her element - headphones hugging her ears, an old record spinning under her hands - but she isn't smiling.

Apply them to the Villa Aurora's 1928 Artcraft theater organ, which is currently under restoration for its December 2010 return.

Founded and led by sculptor Dave Kawano , U1 Toy Arts entered the art toy scene with the Boris mini-fig from Nathan Hamill and is set to release several new products in the not so distant future.

Detroit's own Howling Diablos, a bluesy, soulful rock group that headlines its own shows and has opened for the likes of George Clinton's Parliament-Funkadelic, Alice Cooper, Incubus and ZZ Top, is set to follow one of the area's newest bands, The Infatuations, on stage during an 8 p.m. Thanksgiving Eve bash at The Village Theater at Cherry Hill.

Published: Thursday, November 12, 2009 at 6:01 a.m. Last Modified: Wednesday, November 11, 2009 at 12:21 p.m. Among the national acts rolling out the funk, rock and blues vibes at the Bear Creek Music & Art Festival near Live Oak this weekend is a Gainesville band that won't just be opening for some of the headliners - they'll be playing with them.

There are some tough jobs in the world. Ice-road trucker. Bomb-defuser. Bodyguard for Amy Winehouse.

Professor Errol Morrison ought not to, as he says he will, rest his case. If anything, he should be recruiting other champions to maintain the fight.

In this photo released by Starpix, Hip Hop pioneer Russell Simmons, right, director Mary Mazzio and Rahfael Gordon stop for a photo at the arrivals for "Ten9Eight: Shoot for the Moon," in New York, Thursday, Nov.

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.