For nearly two decades, nonprofit Music Will has sought to connect teachers, students and musical opportunities. While the 501(c)(3) organization offers students musical instruments, their work goes ...

When recording the song “Album of the Year #1 Funkateer,” Bootsy Collins had a very specific vibe in mind. “I wanted to give the people what they wanted back in the Seventies: a sense of hope, joy, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Bootsy Collins defines funk as "making something out of nothing," a philosophy he's always lived. Growing up in Cincinnati in the ...

Bootsy Collins and his star-shaped Space Bass rocketed into the funk-soul universe, first with George Clinton’s Parliament-Funkadelic and later with his own Bootsy’s Rubber Band. He'll be on hand Aug.

Patrice Rushen and Hezekiah Walker will also be honored. By Paul Grein Johnny Gill, Bootsy Collins, Patrice Rushen and Hezekiah Walker will get their flowers at the ninth annual Black Music Honors.

The word “legend” gets overused, but make no mistake, Bootsy Collins is a legend. He cut his teeth playing bass for James Brown as a teenager. You know the bass riff on “Get Up (I Feel Like Being a) ...

Bootsy Collins remembers growing up in Cincinnati, then-home of R&B powerhouse King Records, and idolizing its biggest star, James Brown. “He really took us off the streets,” Collins said, remembering ...

If you were to find some mysterious, enticing doorway—maybe it shows itself along a path somewhere you’ve taken a million times before—would you open it and walk through? And if you did, as you ...

Bootsy Collins, like the rest of the Parliament-Funkadelic universe, has never been one for small, subtle gestures. So it’s not surprising that his first new album in five years, “Tha Funk… By ...

AS THE EIGHTIES began winding down, Bootsy Collins was in his element during nights on the town in Washington, D.C. Flashing his signature star-shaped shades, according to one report, he was chilling ...

In the ninth episode of UCR's Bold as Love Recalled and Celebrated video series, Bootsy Collins explains how Jimi Hendrix ushered in a "whole new era" for music. Released barely six months after the ...