Guardian Music — (Wrasse)Seu Jorge delights in the unexpected. As an actor he has appeared in City of God and The Life Aquatic, and as a singer-songwriter has mixed Brazilian samba with blues, rock and funk, and reworked Western pop favourites by everyone from David ... more info

Guardian Music — An RR a day helps you work, rest and playChocolate makes for a rich metaphor. It's sweet, it melts, it's velvety and smooth – it's the most sexual of sweet stuffs. Its colour, too, lends it resonance – though only in the hands of black artists. S... more info

Starpulse — Cash-strapped funk icon George Clinton is appealing to fans to help him raise $50,000 to preserve his recording studio in Florida. The Parliament-Funkadelic frontman, 70, is using online fundraisi... more info

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