Happy Memorial Day Weekend everyone! As usual on a Friday before a holiday, there aren’t a lot of new releases today and I ...

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VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. — Organizers have announced the lineup for a free funk music festival slated to take place at the Oceanfront in late August. The 2026 Virginia Beach Funk Fest Beach Party will run ...

It was supposed to be a shoo-in reelection for Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass. After becoming the first woman mayor for LA and the second Black person to hold the office, Bass was looking to serve the ...

Gabrielle Ulubay is a Music writer at Collider. She has previously been published in The New York Times, Bustle, HuffPost Personal, and other magazines, and wrote at Marie Claire for nearly three ...

LA-based duo deBasement continue evolving their boundary-pushing, hedonistic, and unpredictable brand of queer/trans electropop for the club. Imagine a lustful, confronting whisper emerging from the ...

Genres like “alternative rock” and “grunge” help organize music into neat categories. But the labels also flatten music scenes that are much more diverse than the names reveal. Grunge certainly ...

Billy "Bass" Nelson, the founding bassist of Funkadelic, passed away at the age of 75 in Plainfield. Nelson's distinctive bass playing was a cornerstone of Parliament-Funkadelic's early, ...

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 ...

George Clinton, while working as a barber, recruited him. Mr. Nelson went on to name the group and, with his bandmates, to be inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. By Clay Risen Billy Bass ...

Founding Parliament-Funkadelic bassist Billy Bass died of unspecified causes Saturday night, three days after his 75th birthday. P-Funk bandleader George Clinton's Facebook page had erroneously ...