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Funkadelic

October 2023

  • Sly Stone

    ‘I kicked ass’: funk pioneer Sly Stone on taking Woodstock by storm, partying with George Clinton and getting clean

    The frontman of Sly and the Family Stone brought the house down at Woodstock with a performance of I Want To Take You Higher. These extracts from his new memoir depict a life as vivid and riotous as the music of his band

May 2022

  • George Clinton & Parliament/Funkadelic at Kentish Town Forum.

    George Clinton & Parliament-Funkadelic review – fabulous fusions on farewell tour

    At 81, Clinton occasionally needs to sit down, but his band more than carry him with musicianship that straddles acid-rock, jazz and more

October 2021

  • Marvin Gaye at the piano in 1974.

    Ranked
    The greatest songs about the climate crisis – ranked!

    As Cop26 opens in Glasgow, we provide the soundtrack, ranging from Gojira’s metal fury to gorgeous environmental paeans by Childish Gambino, Neil Young and Joni Mitchell

June 2020

  • Bootsy Collins: ‘Funk just brings people together. It doesn’t have nothing to do with colour.’

    Bootsy Collins: 'We're all funky, just not all of us know it'

    The P-Funk bassist was a street kid in the 60s, got his break with James Brown, then spent much of the 70s taking LSD. He talks about drugs, racism, police brutality – and the healing power of music

April 2020

  • Mike Judge comp - Bootsy Collins, Mike Judge and Butthead

    'People opened up because I'm the Beavis and Butt-head guy': Mike Judge on his new funk direction

  • Thundercat

    Thundercat: 'I was always that guy missing a shoe, covered in blood'

March 2020

  • Caspar Llewellyn Smith

    Why playlists are getting me through anxious times

    Caspar Llewellyn Smith
    New technologies are helping us reach out to one another in these troubled times. And what doesn’t make the list is just as important as what does

June 2018

  • ‘The drum kit got tangled up in the spaceship as it was taking off and just went up into the air with it’ … the band aboard their mothership.

    How we made
    How we made Funkadelic's One Nation Under a Groove

    ‘A woman came up on stage butt-naked and started blowing smoke rings out of her private parts’

October 2017

  • Bootsy Collins

    This much I know
    Bootsy Collins: ‘LSD was a big part of why I left James Brown’s band’

    The musician, 66, tells Candice Pires about free love, Funkadelic, coming to earthly consciousness and getting away from being Bootsy

March 2017

  • Sly & The Family Stone

    10 of the best
    Sly and the Family Stone – 10 of the best

    From the birth of a funk superhero team to claustrophobic social comment, here are the high points in an occasionally terrifying career

February 2017

  • Bob Marley in around 1970

    Readers recommend
    Readers recommend playlist: your songs about unity

    A reader picks playlist that unites the community around a common goal – great music. Primal Scream, Paul McCartney and Ana Tijoux make the list

December 2016

  • George Clinton

    George Clinton on funk, touring and staying relevant at 75

    The legendary singer is seeing his star on the ascendant with a new tour, new albums and a supergroup keeping him on the straight and narrow

November 2016

  • Bad Sounds

    New band of the week
    New band of the week: Bad Sounds (No 130) – 70s-inspired grooves and upbeat vibes

  • Harvey Sutherland & Bermuda

    New band of the week
    New band of the week: Harvey Sutherland & Bermuda (No 127)

September 2016

  • NWA Portrait<br>NEW YORK - OCTOBER 30: (L-R) Rappers MC Ren, DJ Yella, Eazy-E and Dr. Dre of the rap group NWA pose for a portrait in 1991 in New York, New York. DJ Yella is giving the middle-finger. (Photo by Al Pereira/Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images)

    Backstabbing, Moogs and the funky worm: how gangsta rap was born

    In an edited excerpt from his book Original Gangsta, Ben Westhoff recalls how one of music’s most controversial genres began and who truly invented it

July 2016

  • Music File Photos - The 1970s - by Chris Walter<br>The Grateful Dead, 1970 (clockwise): Bob Weir, Phil Lesh, Bill Kreutzmann, Ron “Pigpen” McKernan, Mickey Hart and Jerry Garcia during the Music File Photos - The 1970s - by Chris Walter at the Music File Photos 1970’s in Various Cities, United Kingdom. (P

    Readers recommend
    Readers recommend playlist: songs about community

    Suggestions from the readers recommend community include songs by the Kinks, Funkadelic and Grateful Dead
  • New band of the week- Yehan Jehan (No 111)

    New band of the week
    New band of the week: Yehan Jehan (No 111) – the backdrop to your summer

    Bosnian boy wonder swallows his dad’s 80s soul and funk record collection whole, and gives it his own cosmic spin
  • Eclectic … Little Scream.

    New band of the week
    New band of the week: Little Scream (No 110) – pop and prog collide in a cinematic adventure

    An all-star cast, including Arcade Fire’s Richard Reed Parry, joins the Montreal musician for an album that imagines St Vincent on a purple spree at Paisley Park

June 2016

  • Bernie Worrell

    Bernie Worrell, Parliament-Funkadelic co-founder, dies aged 72

    Worrell, who announced in early 2016 that he had lung cancer, influenced funk, rock and hip-hop artists

April 2016

  • Bryndon Cook

    New band of the week
    New band of the week: Starchild & The New Romantic (No 100)

    Listening to this Prince acolyte from New York and his sumptuously sad synth-soul music, it’s as though he recorded his EP knowing full well what was going to happen …
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