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Stand - Sly & The Family Stone
Sly & the Family Stone harnessed all of the disparate musical and social trends of the late '60s, creating a wild, brilliant fusion of soul, rock, R&B, psychedelia, and funk that broke boundaries down without a ...
George Clinton - Clinton Plans Covers Album
Caption: George Clinton Premiere of 'Love Guru' held at the Grauman's Chinese Theater - Arrivals Los Angeles, California .... Funk icon GEORGE CLINTON is to release a covers album with a little help from his ...
Review: Bobby Womack: The Best of Bobby Womack: The Soul Years
Bobby Womack had an A-list pedigree, relatively enormous success as a songwriter, and a long string of respectable-or-better r&b hits, and he's still sort of an also-ran. A journeyman soul singer, Womack scored ...
Track Corned Beef Artist/Band Bryan Doherty Band Duration 7:28 Album Rigamarole Record Label Origin Records Description For his debut album, bassist/composer Bryan Doherty assembles some of Chicago's finest ...
Roses - Pedigree Puppy Ruins Slash, Rose, Bach + Stone Supergroup Plans
Caption: CODY TO WEAR MILLION DOLLAR SHOE TO THE OSCARS. Oscar-nominee DIABLO CODY will look like a million dollars when.
Melting Pot Music Israel-reared DJ, multi-instrumentalist and composer Kutiman [Ophir Kutiel] merges a contemporary mindset with the sounds and styles of funk and psychedelic lore throughout this ...
Kanye West plays at Jobing.com Arena
The most anticipated concert tour of the summer season hits the Valley Sunday with hip-hop superstar Kanye West's critically acclaimed Glow in the Dark tour.
This usually isn't something readers take into account when it comes to this site's reviews, but you might want to consider that rating up there a purely vestigial placeholder this time around.
Sly Stone puts the band together again for tour, record
The phone rings, and it's Sly Stone. He has brought his own emcee, his daughter Sylvette Phunne Robinson, who ushers in the interview from Los Angeles with a rap about her father.
60 seconds with the Hall of Famer
Thursday, May 29, 2008 : Last Update: Wednesday, 10:05pm Indy: Do you feel that the music of Parliament, and later Funkadelic, gets the respect it deserves from the music community and fans? GC: Yeah, but ...
James Brown, Sly Stone and Batman & Robin get roasted at a funkalicious JoCo blues club
"Sticky" Ricky Dodson is tired. Birdlike and boyish from the stage but thin and haggard up close, the blues man, soul man, jazz man, R&B man, funk man, hip-hop man and man's man leans back on his bar stool and ...
The Heavy's sound of '70s resonates
It's not only female vocalists who have tapped into the time-honored British tradition of selling American music back to the Yanks: There's also the Heavy, a five-piece band from Noid, England, whose electric ... via Philly.com
Nation Time still strikes a chord
“Free your mind and your ass will follow”
"Aw, c'mon. You can do better than that. What tiiiime is it?" "NATION TIME!" As soon as those words are spoken on Joe McPhee's Nation Time album, you know you are in for thrills. via MediaGuardian.co.uk
Sly Stone - Stone Sorry for Letting Fans Down
“It wasn't what I thought it would be, but that's OK.”
Caption: Sly Stone of Sly And the Family Stone performing at the North Sea Jazz Festival at Ahoy Stadium. via ContactMusic.com
Sly Stone says he wants to make a comeback
“I'm like this because I fell off a cliff”
Sly Stone, the Howard Hughes of the Woodstock scene, rolled up on a hulking three-wheel custom chopper painted the color of lemons. via Los Angeles Times
“A new world of funky eclectic groove music that cats will sample from for years to come.”
If you were to create a bionic band that compresses together the dazzling rhythms of B.T. Express, the sexy vocals of Prince, and the electro-funk sensibility of Afrika Bambaataa, you'd wind up with something ... via Download.com Music
Review: Various Artists: The Sound of Philadelphia: Gamble & Huff's...
Various Artists The Sound of Philadelphia: Gamble & Huff's Greatest Hits / Conquer the World: The Lost Soul of Philadelphia International Records [Philadelphia International/Legacy; 2008] Rating: 8.5 / 7.5 ... via Pitchfork
Kutiman Channels the Funk Spirit
“I can find things that I love in any genre. If I feel it, I don't care what it is.”
Text by Derek Beres Listening to Kutiman 's self-titled debut, you'd think that funk has been an underlying theme throughout his entire life. via XLR8R
Live Monday @ 2: Nino Moschella
LIVE MONDAY @ 2: NINO MOSCHELLA California's Nino Moschella mixes one part Stevie Wonder, two parts Prince and throws in a hit of Sly Stone for an impressive fusion of rock, soul and funk on his propulsive ... via KUT-FM Austin