Funkadelic’s third album was a psychedelic blast of freewheeling protest music. As the LP turns 50, we look back at the music that fueled it — and that was inspired by it. By Christopher R. Weingarten ...
When the original Funkadelic lineup gathered to record its third album in 1970, it’s unlikely any of the members knew it would be their last release together. Regardless, mastermind George Clinton was ...
Funkadelic is the result of George Clinton flirting with psychedelic music, a style he describes as "loud R&B." (Getty Images) ...
Each Sunday, Pitchfork takes an in-depth look at a significant album from the past, and any record not in our archives is eligible. Today, we revisit a monument of psychedelic funk, a defining ...
The demented masterpiece of urban decay and psychedelic hijinks heralded by iconic bandleader George Clinton and his legendary funk collective recently turned 50. While faring relatively well on the U ...
The social justice movements of the 1960s were beginning to fall apart—the “peace and love” of Woodstock was giving way to harder drugs and corporate commodification, in effect curbing the hippie ...
They delved into it all from blues and R&B to hard rock, psychedelic rock and jazz-rock, culminating with back-to-back classics in 1971's Maggot Brain and 1972's formidable double album America Eats ...
They may be two of the most influential notes in funk-rock history: the soaring, plaintive start to guitarist Eddie Hazel's legendary solo in Funkadelic's "Maggot Brain." The song, an audacious, ...
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