ContactMusic — Cash-strapped funk icon George Clinton is appealing to fans to help him raise 50000 31250 to preserve his recording studio in Florida The Parliament-Funkadelic frontman 70 is using online fundraising website IndieGoGo to encourage devotees to cont... more info

ContactMusic — Funk star George Clinton and his band Parliament Funkadelic have been hit with a lawsuit after allegedly failing to stage a show in New York last year 11 According to club owners the group signed a contract to perform at La Boom in Queens last August... more info

KEXP Seattle — KEXP Documentaries bring you a musical subject in the time it takes to play just one song. This week it’s an episode on funk mastermind George Clinton and one band with two names: “Parliament” and “Funkadelic.” In 1956, George Clinton forme... more info

411 Mania — For unauthorized use of his "Funkadelic" trademark... more info

Perez Hilton — You don't mess with George! Yesterday, music icon George Clinton filed a lawsuit against ten separate European companies for "trademark infringement, copyright infringement, and fraud." According to the lawsuit, the ten companies "assumed 'unauthoriz... more info

Guardian Music — Our writers are picking their favourite albums. Here, Emma Warren bounces along to OutKastAquemini was the album that turned me into a raving OutKast fan, a position consolidated by subsequent albums Stankonia and Speakerboxxx/The Love Below. I consi... more info

Guardian Music — For the recording of Maggot Brain, George Clinton told guitarist Eddie Hazel to play 'like your momma had just died' – this extraordinary 10-minute solo was the resultLast week we refreshed the look of guardian.co.uk/music, and one of the first com... more info

CNN Showbiz — When George Clinton enters the room, I wonder if I should salute him with an "Atomic Dog" bark or hug him. more info

L.A. Times - Entertainment — Snoop Dogg, Drake, Lex Luger and B.o.B all took home top honors at BMI's Urban Awards in Hollywood on Friday.Snoop joins a list of past honorees that includes George Clinton, The Jacksons, James Brown, Isaac Hayes, Little Richard and Chuck Berry. more info

Guardian Music — From Public Enemy to P Diddy, a new documentary charts how rap became a global phenomenon out of anger, sex and blingIt's 1989 and I'm hangin' tough with my £11.99 skateboard from Argos and a bright yellow Sony Walkman in Stanmore, a leafy suburb of... more info