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

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Bootsy Collins on 4/14/91 in Chicago,Il. . Parliament's 1975 concept album Mothership Connection is among the best of a dozen or ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Mothership will officially land at the Detroit Opera House on Saturday, Jan. 31, when funk god and godfather of modern hip hop ...

DETROIT — “I was strung out on Bach, and Beethoven was my thing. I dug jazz, I dug rock, anything with a swing” — or so goes Funkadelic's 1978 groove “Cholly (Funk Getting Ready to Roll!).” Now ...

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Musician George Clinton arrives at the 1st Annual Black Music Action Coalition’s Music in Action Awards held at the 1 Hotel West Hollywood on September 23, 2021 in West Hollywood. (Photo by Xavier ...

For nearly 50 years, George Clinton has taken his brand of groundbreaking funk basically wherever a Mothership can fly. An opera house was a new twist, however. Symphonic PFunk: Celebrating the Music ...

It can be annoying when artists announce their retirement only to backtrack — we’re looking at you, LCD Soundsystem — but in the case of George Clinton, we’ll forgive him. Dr. Funkenstein announced a ...

Beautiful weather and a diverse roster of artists — from authors to rockers, professors to P-Funk — drew crowds of thousands to the three-day Word of South festival, sprawled across 10 stages at ...