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 ...

A founding member of the George Clinton-led Parliament Funkadelic has died at 75. William “Billy Bass” Nelson was the ...

The funk band Lettuce, which performs Thursday, May 22, at Globe Iron in Cleveland, has been together since together for more than three decades at this point, and guitarist Adam “Shmeeans” Smirnoff ...

The Gazette offers audio versions of articles using Instaread. Some words may be mispronounced. For a quarter century, a band of 5,000-year-old, bandage-wrapped undead have prowled America, with their ...

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 ...

Sly Stone, the pioneering leader of the funk band bearing his name, Sly and the Family Stone, has died, according to his family. Stone was 82 years old. "After a prolonged battle with COPD and other ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) The Gap Band, composed of brothers Charlie, Ronnie, and Robert Wilson, left an indelible mark on funk, R&B, and soul. Known for their electrifying stage presence and infectious ...

Symphonic PFunk: Celebrating the Music of Parliament - Funkadelic was staged Saturday night, Jan. 31 at the Detroit Opera House, in the city where Clinton recorded the bulk of his classic catalog ...

Dave Pehling is website managing editor for CBS Bay Area. He started his journalism career doing freelance writing about music in the late 1990s, eventually working as a web writer, editor and ...