Detroit madman and doo-wop veteran George Clinton spent the 1970s running two of the wildest bands in the galaxy: Funkadelic for guitar-crazed rock, Parliament for dance-floor boogie. Only a genius ...
The Ohio Players is one of many funk groups from Dayton that took off in the 1970s and '80s. In the mid-1960s, James Brown was creating a new style of music — funk. Instead of turning elaborate ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) When people talk about the golden age of funk, certain names always come up: Parliament-Funkadelic, Earth, Wind & Fire, Kool & the Gang. But tucked into that legendary company is a ...
To celebrate London-based label Fantasy Love releasing a five-track EP of long-lost '80s material by Seattle funk/R&B group Teleclere, leader Tony Benton and others will be performing their lushly ...
The New Orleans native was best known for her 1971 hit single, "Mr. Big Stuff." The song reached No. 2 on the Billboard Hot 100 and was nominated for a Grammy in 1972. Good morning, I'm Michel Martin.
T S MONK (Thelonious Monk III.) sat down with Black Enterprise Executive Editor-At-Large Alfred Edmond Jr. for an hour-long discussion on music, activism, and a whole lot more. T.S., the son of the ...