What took you so long? For the artists and bands in this list, the answers include poverty, market indifference, drug addiction, and catastrophic hearing loss.
George Clinton's Parliament-Funkadelic collective isn't always posed as a leading candidate for greatest or most important band of the '70s, but try and imagine what…
Behold the Gospel Of Funk! In which we understand funk as a galactic force, a vast and free-flowing stream of information and instigation that suffuses…
Bernie Worrell, the virtuoso keyboardist who helped define the Parliament-Funkadelic sound, died today after a battle with lung cancer. His family broke the news this…
Will Ferrell and Red Hot Chili Peppers drummer Chad Smith have long found themselves near the top of every celebrity-lookalike listicle, and last week, we…
Here's a weird one. Robin Thicke's monster summer hit "Blurred Lines" owes some obvious debt to older songs. In particular, Marvin Gaye's almighty "Got To…
Three years ago, the great Chicago soul and gospel legend Mavis Staples released You Are Not Alone, the comeback album that Wilco frontman Jeff Tweedy…
