Kiss fans got a big surprise in late 2025 when Peter Criss emerged from a long hibernation with a brand new studio album. Released just two weeks after he and his co-founding Kiss bandmates were ...

Nelson co-founded the Parliaments with George Clinton and was responsible for the name "Funkadelic" ...

Flea has led tributes to the Funkadelic bassist, who was one of the founding architects of funk’s most audacious musical ...

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 ...

William “Billy Bass” Nelson, the original bassist for George Clinton’s pioneering psychedelic funk crew Funkadelic, has passed away. According to Ultimate Classic Rock, Clinton’s Facebook page ...

George Clinton, while working as a barber, recruited him. Mr. Nelson went on to name the group and, with his bandmates, to be inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame.

The Rock & Roll Hall of Famer met future collaborator George Clinton as a teenager.

Billy Bass, the founding bassist for Parliament–Funkadelic whose real name was William Nelson, Jr., died on Saturday. The Facebook account for that group’s frontman, George Clinton, announced the news ...