Three days after celebrating his 75th birthday, Billy Bass Nelson, a bassist and guitarist for the groups Parliament and Funkadelic, died.

Billy Bass Nelson, who played with George Clinton and Parliament-Funkadelic for years, has died at 75, the band has announced ...

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On July 22, 2025, we lost the legendary Ozzy Osbourne, just 17 days after his farewell “Back to the Beginning” concert earlier that month. Despite the heartbreaking news last summer, 2025 featured ...

This was just the beginning of Welcome to the Neighborhood’s story. After playing together for a little over two years, Lesniewski and SeRine had to leave Bloomington. With Lesniewski becoming an EMT, ...

In the documentary One Nation Under a Groove, Bass recalls how the heavy psychedelic rock of Funkadelic crystalized at a show where they opened for Vanilla Fudge. When Funkadelic's gear was lost on ...

Keeping people safe is not a partisan slogan—it is a basic promise of government. And Democrats cannot dodge it. Because when we do, we don’t just lose politically. We concede the issue to Republicans ...

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