A half-century ago, George Clinton debuted a $500,000 spaceship that turned his live concerts into intergalactic journeys.

Every once in a while, a single instrument arrives and rewrites the rules. Not just for music, but for culture itself. Think about it. A strip of brass and a few keys gave birth to jazz. A solid block ...

Best known as a member of David Bowie's band, which she joined for the Outside tour with Nine lnch Nails back in 1995, bassist Gail Ann Dorsey has carved a niche for herself by al ...

The indie music festival M3F returns to Steele Indian School Park in Phoenix on March 6-7. Here are the best and worst things ...

New Orleans is a city where music is not just entertainment; it is the heartbeat of daily life. From the syncopated grooves ...

There was no shortage of groundbreaking funk and soul classics in the 1970s. But in 1977, several tracks reflected dance music’s ongoing evolution. Using a combination of old and new production ...

Billy "Bass" Nelson, the founding bassist of Funkadelic, passed away at the age of 75 in Plainfield. Nelson's distinctive bass playing was a cornerstone of Parliament-Funkadelic's early, ...

William “Billy Bass” Nelson Jr., whose bass playing helped define the revolutionary funk sound of Parliament-Funkadelic, died Saturday, Parade reports. He was 75, passing away days after his birthday ...

The musician born William Nelson, Jr. played on the George Clinton-led Funkadelic's first three studio albums. By Gil Kaufman William “Billy Bass” Nelson, the founding bassist for the George ...

Billy Bass, the founding bassist for Parliament–Funkadelic whose real name was William Nelson, Jr., died on Saturday. The Facebook account for that group’s frontman, George Clinton, announced the news ...

Mr. Hennessy sees the band returning in true style to the funk form and compliments their back catalogue of dance and electronic songs such as ‘Bold Pattern of Life’, ‘The Inventor’, ‘Twilight Bay’, ...