Music legend George Clinton, who continues to tour the world performing funk-filled concerts, will be honoured for his contribution to music this fall in New York. Performing rights organization Broadcast Music,...
Joe Simpson AKA 'Eldridge Gravy' does his thing Photo: Greg Roth / SMI By Greg Roth / SMI There is nothing like ice cream, hot dogs, soda and music on a Fourth of July weekend in the Emerald City. The sun did it's best to hide out from the diverse Crowd at Cal Anderson...
New Orleans native Troy Trombone Shorty Andrews is only 24, but his musical lifeline is a long one. Andrews grew up in the Treme, the storied New Orleans neighborhood where jazz was said to have been born and where generations of musicians have lived. Music has been...
TRENTON, N.J. — Garry Shider, the longtime musical director of Parliament-Funkadelic whose funky guitar work, songwriting skills and musical arrangements thrilled fans around the globe and earned him a spot in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, has died. He was 56....
UPPER MARLBORO, MD. — Legendary funk guitarist Garry Shider, whose work with Parliament-Funkadelic earned him a spot in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, has died. He was 56. Shider was known to millions of fans as "Starchild" or "Diaperman," the latter because of...
For those of you who don't know them (surely not that many now) Lance Ferguson and his merry cohorts,The Bamboos, are in Europe right now promoting their spanking new album "4". And rightly so, they are regarded as masters of deep funk and heavy soul. So let me...
Garry Shider, the funk-rock guitarist and singer whose spacey but soulful and rhythmically powerful playing provided one of the pillars of the influential Parliament-Funkadelic sound of the 1970s and propelled him into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, died on Wednesday...
Ed Zurga FILE - In this June 9, 2010 photo, former NBA basketballstar Manute Bol poses for a photograph at the Sunrise Sudan headquarters in Lenexa, Kan. Bol has died at a Virginia hospital, where he was being treated for severe kidney trouble and a painful skin...
This is a new FREE night organised by BluesMix, one of London's most acclaimed original Blues bands. Expect high quality Blues with a twist from l... Date: Sunday 20th June 2010 Venue: Proud Camden » Location: London Doors: 19:00 til 00:30 Event short url:...
TRENTON, N.J. - Garry Shider - the longtime musical director of Parliament-Funkadelic whose funky guitar work, songwriting skills, and musical arrangements thrilled fans around the globe and earned him a spot in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame - died Wednesday at his...
0 0 0 Legendary funk guitarist Garry Shider, whose work with Parliament-Funkadelic earned him a spot in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, has died. He was 56....