William ‘Billy Bass’ Nelson, the original bassist for the funk rock band Funkadelic and a key figure in 1970s funk, has died ...

Musician, who co-founded the Parliaments with George Clinton, coined the name 'Funkadelic' ...

George Clinton, while working as a barber, recruited him. Mr. Nelson went on to name the group and, with his bandmates, to be ...

Funk music was transforming rapidly in the 1970s, and by 1976, many hits already felt timeless because they sounded like the ...

The Detroit Opera will showcase some of funk maestro George Clinton 's and P-Funk's greatest hits this weekend, performed by ...

“Symphonic PFunk: Celebrating the Music of Parliament Funkadelic" will take over the Detroit Opera House on Jan. 31. The ...

The 1970s was a decade of massive commercial peaks where bands could sell millions of records without ever achieving the 'cool' status required for long-term critical immortality. While groups like ...

This year marked both a remarkable year in music and a poignant farewell to a generation of influential artists whose work helped shape genres from pop and rock to soul, funk and reggae. From pioneers ...

Carl Carlton, best known for his timeless hits “Everlasting Love” and “She’s a Bad Mama Jama,” has died at 72. The Detroit-born R&B and funk singer passed away on December 14, 2025, after years of ...

The 1970s truly stand as the golden era for the rock album. It was a time when the LP format matured into an expansive artistic canvas. Record labels, flush with success, often granted bands ...

The foundations of funk were laid down in the mid-1960s, when James Brown began to emphasize the first beat of each measure in his stage-tested and frenzy-inducing R&B songs. Before the decade’s end, ...

*Unfortunately, we have sad, sad news to report about Leslie Wilson, lead singer of the R&B group New Birth, who has passed away. The group shared the news on October 30, 2025. He passed away three ...