JamBase — Electric Forest continued on Friday with a collaboration-filled day featuring The String Cheese Incident, Dumpstaphunk, STS9, GRiZ, Soul Rebels, Papadosio and more. more info

Guardian Music — Bernie Worrell was a crucial part of Parliament’s Mothership – and then he went on to help Talking Heads change gearIf Bernie Worrell – whose genius sent the Parliament/Funkadelic mothership rocketing into hyperspace, and helped ... more info

Reuters — NEW YORK (Reuters) - Bernie Worrell, the keyboardist and founding member of Parliament-Funkadelic known as the "Wizard of Woo," died on Friday at the age of 72, according to his website. more info

JamBase — Georgia rockers Widespread Panic went the old school route on the first night of this year's Red Rocks run on Friday. more info

Guardian Music — Worrell, who announced in early 2016 that he had lung cancer, influenced funk, rock and hip-hop artistsBernie Worrell, the ingenious “Wizard of Woo” whose amazing array of keyboard sounds and textures helped define the Parliament-Funkadel... more info

AllHipHop — R.I.P. TO THE LEGEND..BERNIE WORRELL! more info

New York Times — Mr. Worrell created indelible signatures on Parliament and Funkadelic songs while showing that synthetic sounds could be earthy and untamed. more info

USA Today Music — Bernie Worrell, who revolutionized keyboard playing in popular music, died Friday from the effects of lung cancer, his wife, Judie Worrell, announced on Facebook. He was 72.             more info

Detroit Free Press — Bernie Worrell, who announced in early 2016 that he had stage-four lung cancer, died Friday at home in Washington state             more info

NME — Worrell was diagnosed with stage-four lung cancer in January of this year more info