The old dog can learn new tricks, but are the tricks worth learning?

Shake the Gate’s stylistic experiments are most successful when Clinton finds a way to make the borrowed sounds his own.

Proves Funkadelic’s central thesis: bow to the groove, not the trends.

After its cancellation in 1989, By Way of the Drum’s cult reputation grew in proportion to its inaccessibility.

Funkadelic is dead, long live Funkadelic. And still there’s no decent dick in Detroit.

Trombipulation is a well-played and frequently interesting funk record that might be a rare-groove classic if it were made by any other band.

By the end of the 1970s, George Clinton’s P-Funk empire was crumbling.

Gloryhallastoopid, which concludes the Parliament mythos, imparts the same bittersweet feeling as when anything wraps up and acquires a body count in the process.

This is the conclusion of the Funkadelic that sounded this good, looked this good and were this committed to a musical and political cause.

Motor Booty Affair was not the last triumph of the P-Funk collective.