Parliament’s “Mothership Connection,” released 50 years ago this month, was a rococo musical milestone that bridged funk’s hammering, rhythmic pulse and the emerging hip-hop movement in New York and ...

This is FRESH AIR. George Clinton is the leader of two groundbreaking funk bands, Parliament and Funkadelic. As the writer, producer and performer behind numerous hits, Clinton helped define the sound ...

Long before today’s superstars brought spectacle to the stage, offering performance art as opposed to simply a performance, an incredible thing happened: A Black man descended upon a stage from a ...

Fifty years ago, the world got funkier when Parliament landed with their fourth album, Mothership Connection. "They were world-building before the term 'world-building' became, like, a buzzword," ...