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- Columns & Opinion, On Politics Dec 21, 2020
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Looking ahead
I think we can all agree the next year has got to be better.
- Music, Music Feature Feb 11, 2020
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Out of SPACE returns in June with George Clinton, Neko Case, Big Boi, and Drive-By Truckers
The outdoor concert series will announce its August shows later this month.
- Music, The Secret History of Chicago Music Sep 10, 2019
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Pedro Bell made art to embody Funkadelic’s revolutionary grooves
The underappreciated genius behind many of Funkadelic's most famous album covers died last month after nine years in a nursing and rehab center.
- Blogs, Bleader Jul 13, 2018
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George Clinton and more of the best things to do in Chicago this weekend
Chicago Shakespeare's Peter Pan and more goings-on 7/13-7/15
- Music, Concert Preview Jul 5, 2018
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Before retiring from the road, George Clinton brings the funk to Chicago one more time
- Arts & Culture, Art Feature May 9, 2018
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‘In Their Own Form’ takes a long look at Afrofuturism beyond Black Panther
The movement—really more a wide-ranging cultural and aesthetic philosophy—has roots deep in the 19th century.
- Blogs, Bleader May 2, 2018
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Guess who’s coming to play at Taste of Chicago this year?
The Flaming Lips, Black Star, and George Clinton are among the big names at the Grant Park festival in July.
- Blogs, Bleader Jul 17, 2017
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Forty years on, the Feelies still cast the same irresistible spell
Veteran New Jersey rock combo the Feelies manipulated time and space at the Pitchfork Music Festival on Saturday.
- Blogs, Bleader Mar 10, 2017
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The Pitchfork Music Festival announces its complete 2017 lineup
PJ Harvey, the Avalanches, George Clinton, and Priests (among dozens of others) join previously announced Pitchfork headliners LCD Soundsystem, A Tribe Called Quest, and Solange.
- Blogs, Bleader Sep 28, 2015
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Listen to a track featuring Flying Lotus, Thundercat, Shabazz Palaces, and George Clinton
The first single from supergroup Woke is today's 12 O'Clock Track.
- Blogs, Bleader Jun 16, 2015
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Here's all 15 minutes of Funkadelic's delirious and brilliant '(Not Just) Knee Deep'
George Clinton and Parliament Funkadelic play the Venue at Horseshoe Casino Saturday.
- Blogs, Bleader Mar 4, 2015
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What would Mayor Rahm do without Detroit?
Leave it to one of the mayor's Republican backers—Senator Mark Kirk—to use the Detroit analogy to try to scare white Chicagoans into voting for Rahm.
- Film, Movie Review Dec 11, 2013
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John Akomfrah's collage of the humanities
Black Cinema House revisits a radical chronicler of the African diaspora.
- Blogs, Bleader Jun 7, 2013
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12 O'Clock Track: It's Friday—let's listen to Funkadelic covering the Sonics!
A track from the band's 1973 album Cosmic Slop for the start of the weekend
- Blogs, Bleader Mar 18, 2013
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12 O'Clock Track: Funkadelic's torrid, guitar-hard "Alice in My Fantasies"
Today's 12 O'Clock Track is Funkadelic's "Alice in My Fantasies," from the album Standing on the Verge of Getting It On.
- Music, Music Sidebar Aug 28, 2012
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African Festival of the Arts 2012
George Clinton, Nona Hendryx, the Chosen Few DJs, and more
- Blogs, Bleader Mar 6, 2012
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The psych-funk genius of Eddie Hazel
The lone solo album by psych-funk guitar genius Eddie Hazel is back in print.
- Blogs, Bleader Nov 11, 2011
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Jake Austen, unsurprisingly, has more on Dancin' Man
Jake Austen shares Tito Jackson's Dancin' Man testimonial and a pic with George Clinton and crew.
- Music, Music Feature Nov 10, 2011
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Who is Dancin' Man?
Perry Kanlan has shared stages with James Brown and the Jackson Five, and he's a familiar face to generations of south-side clubgoers. How did he get there?
- Blogs, Bleader Jan 15, 2011
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Copyright Criminals
"Can you own a sound?" asks the sampling documentary "Copyright Criminals," screening Saturday 1/14 in the 3rd Annual Winter Block Party for Hip-Hop Arts at the Chicago Urban Art Society.
- Blogs, Bleader Jan 7, 2010
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Early Warnings Roundup
This week's Early Warnings include Alkaline Trio, Cursive, Vampire Weekend, Japandroids, George Clinton & Parliament Funkadelic, and Air.
- Blogs, Bleader Jun 12, 2009
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It's not about the bling
Sonali Aggarwal champions the music's activist potential in her documentary "Whatever Happened to Hip Hop?" screening Saturday in the Humboldt Park Art Fair Film Festival.
- Blogs, Bleader Aug 12, 2006
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Still ringing bells
Wax Poetics digs into Parliament/Funkadelic, including Chicago visual artist Pedro Bell
