On Jan. 18, George Clinton & Parliament Funkadelic bring their “Just For the Funk of It!” tour to the Music Box.

Cleveland native Michael Hampton began his music career as a teenage prodigy in Funkadelic, which led to an induction into ...

The funky, out-of-this-world music of George Clinton is headed to the Detroit Opera House. The concert, titled “Symphonic ...

There have been a lot of words to describe good funk music. Dirty. Gritty. Grimy. When done right, funk should make your face scrunch up, your head nod and your body move in ways even you might not ...

For those of a certain age, the words “funk music” bring to mind some of the great acts of the 20th century’s second half. James Brown. Sly and the Family Stone. Ohio Players. The Isley Brothers.

The foundations of funk were laid down in the mid-1960s, when James Brown began to emphasize the first beat of each measure in his stage-tested and frenzy-inducing R&B songs. Before the decade's end, ...

Hector Garcia grew up in Los Angeles, raised on the sounds of funk music. He memorized the hip slang and lyrics of funk legend George Clinton, founder of the Parliament-Funkadelic collective along ...

After 28 years of working for the same public relations agency, as well as dealing with three separate name changes, Donovan Roche decided it was time for a change for himself. When he joined The ...

Rock and Roll Hall of Famer Bootsy Collins has been a notable figure not just in Cincinnati but around the world for his work pioneering funk music. After the release of his latest album, "Album of ...

It was sometime in the latter part of the 1960s that R&B gave way to soul and, by extension, funk. It wasn't a scene so much at first as it was a grouping of like-minded artists taking their music to ...

It’s been more than three months since Mark Farner’s American Band played a concert, so he’s amped for the next show on his calendar, a June 26 stop at Jergel’s Rhythm Grille in Warrendale. “When we ...

Sly Stone, a onetime San Francisco DJ turned pop and funk music innovator, has died. He was 82. "It is with profound sadness that we announce the passing of our beloved dad, Sly Stone of Sly and the ...