Bootsy Collins' 1976 album Stretchin' Out in Bootsy's Rubber Band has long been considered a funk masterpiece. But what becomes clear all these years later is the way in which the album transcends the ...

Recently reissued on CD for the first time since 1994 by reissue greats Get On Down, this little-known and barely-remembered album is a 1980 Bootsy Collins/P-Funk joint that deserves far better than ...

Bootsy's delight in funk's unexplored possibilities came to full realization via Dr. Funkenstein a.k.a George Clinton, whose Parliament/Funkadelic had taken the genre to the next exponent of ...

Last night at 2:17 AM, every child from Mrs. Gandy's class went missing.

R&B guitarist Phelps "Catfish" Collins, a veteran of James Brown's J.B.'s, Parliament-Funkadelic and his younger brother William "Bootsy" Collins' Rubber Band, died of cancer last Friday at his home ...

The guitarist could "put you in another world," the funk icon recalls in the ninth episode of UCR's ongoing video series celebrating the late legend's second album. 45 Years Ago: 'Aah...The Name Is ...

For some, it's the last real taste of innocence, and the first real taste of life.