Mickey Atkins, original keyboardist of pioneering funk band Funkadelic, has died at age 71. George Clinton — founder, singer, producer and bandleader of both Funkadelic and sister group Parliament — ...
When the band morphed into the funk-rock ensemble Funkadelic in the late sixties, Haskins was an instrumental force in changing the band’s direction. He co-wrote some of the group’s earliest classics, ...
One Nation Under a Groove is Funkadelic’s most successful album, and many consider it their best. But when George Clinton took the band on the road to promote the September 1978 release, he did it ...
George Clinton and Parliament Funkadelic were consistent with their own lyrics and pretty much “tore the roof off the sucker” known as the Sound Board Theater during their headliner performance in the ...
Funkadelic's ‘Chocolate City,’ ‘Let's Take It to the Stage,’ and ‘Mothership Connection’ — a trio of albums that transformed ...
Fifty years: a breath. A snap of the fingers. Or in the case of Funkadelic’s Free Your Mind ... And Your Ass Will Follow—recorded in one day, with the whole band tripping on LSD—a single ageless ...
Vivid Seats is the New York Post's official ticketing partner. We may receive revenue from this partnership for sharing this content and/or when you make a purchase. The funk will never die. However, ...
The multi-talented musician was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame alongside Parliament-Funkadelic in 1997 Jack Irvin has over five years of experience working in digital journalism, and ...
Throughout the 1970s, the midwest would prove to be a hotbed for great funk music, with the state of Ohio alone delivering artists like Catfish and Bootsy Collins, the Dazz Band, Zapp and The Ohio ...
George Clinton and Parliament-Funkadelic have announced the One Nation Under A Groove tour. The band will be joined by a number of artists along the way, including the Motet, Dopapod, the Pimps of ...
When music writers describe the eight-decade (and counting) career of George Clinton, there’s one word that inevitably comes up: chaos. That term is often used to describe Clinton’s marathon live ...
Photo Credit: Vickey Ford of Sneakshot for Okayplayer. In a report from The Blast, Worrell's widow claimed that Clinton manipulated his bandmates by giving them drugs in place of money, alleging that ...