Parliament’s Up For The Down Stroke and Chocolate City albums have been reissued by Urban Legends/UMe on vinyl. The albums were originally released in 1974 and 1975 and they marked the return of Bootsy Collins and the band’s tribute to Washington, D.C. in hopes for a Black president decades beforeContinue Reading
[youtube id=”3rutWVNjSuk”]George Clinton’s T.A.P.O.A.F.O.M linked him back with Bernie Worrell, Maceo Parker, Bootsy Collins, Junie Morrison and Fred Wesley after years of them not working together. The 1996 album was a lot of jamming in the vein of all three of his groups including Funkadelic and the P-Funk All-Stars. TheContinue Reading
Parliament’s Medicaid Fraud Dogg is their first album in 38 years. The last time they were heard from was the 1980 album Trombipulation. Their critique of the American medical system is happening in the midst of President Trump’s attack on Obamacare and the country’s open conflict around the politics ofContinue Reading
[youtube id=”0tWGU00u8uU”]George Clinton’s Parliament criticizes the medical industry in the video for “I’m Gon Make U O’ Sick Me.” Scarface, Mudbone Cooper, Clinton’s granddaughters Kandy Apple Redd and Nakid87 join him and band for the video that takes place mostly in a hospital. Clinton is the patient and Scarface isContinue Reading