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Funk rock

Index Funk rock

Funk rock is a fusion genre that mixes elements of funk and rock. [1]

146 relations: A Certain Ratio, AC/DC, Aerosmith, Alexander O'Neal, Alternative rock, Always on the Run, American Woman, Another One Bites the Dust, Apollonia 6, Baggy, Band of Gypsys, Bass guitar, Betty Davis, Black Merda, Blondie (band), Blood Sugar Sex Magik, Blur (band), Bootsy Collins, Britpop, Brownmark, Caravan to Midnight, Chic (band), Classic Rock (magazine), Come Taste the Band, Cosmic Slop, D'Angelo, Dance-punk, Dance-rock, David Bowie, David Coverdale, Deep Purple, Disco, Distortion (music), Drum, Drum kit, Drum machine, Eddie Hazel, Electric guitar, Experimental rock, Faith No More, Fame (David Bowie song), Fine Young Cannibals, First Rays of the New Rising Sun, Fishbone, Frank Zappa, Freaky Styley, Freedom (Jimi Hendrix song), Funk, Funk metal, Funkadelic, ..., Gary Wright, George Clinton (musician), Georgia (U.S. state), Glenn Hughes, Grand Funk Railroad, Happy People (Peace album), Hardcore Jollies, Heavy metal music, Hillel Slovak, Hip hop music, Hot Stuff (The Rolling Stones song), Howard Jones (English musician), I'm the Slime, Iggy Pop, In City Dreams, Incubus (band), INXS, James Brown, Jane's Addiction, Jimi Hendrix, Keyboard instrument, Kiss (band), Last Child, Lenny Kravitz, Let's Take It to the Stage, List of funk rock bands, Little Richard, Living Colour, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Maceo Parker, Maggot Brain, Mangue Bit, Mazarati, Minneapolis sound, Mother Love Bone, Mother's Finest, Mr. Bungle, Music genre, Neo soul, New wave music, One Nation Under a Groove, Over-Nite Sensation, P-Funk, Parliament (band), Parliament-Funkadelic, Peace (band), Pigbag, Play That Funky Music, Post-punk, Primus (band), Prince (musician), Psychedelic funk, Psychedelic music, Psychedelic rock, Punk rock, Queen (band), Rage Against the Machine, Rap rock, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Redbone (band), Republic of Loose, Rhythm and blues, Rick Derringer, Rick James, Ritchie Blackmore, Robin Trower, Rock music, Rustee Allen, Scritti Politti, Singing, Snoop Dogg, Standing on the Verge of Getting It On, Stevie Salas, Stormbringer (album), Synth-pop, T. M. Stevens, Talking Heads, Terence Trent D'Arby, The Bar-Kays, The Electric Spanking of War Babies, The Family (band), The Idiot (album), The Jimi Hendrix Experience, The Rolling Stones, The Time (band), The Uplift Mofo Party Plan, Things Can Only Get Better (Howard Jones song), Tom Tom Club, Tommy Bolin, Trapeze (band), United Kingdom, Untitled (How Does It Feel), Voodoo (D'Angelo album), War (band), Wild Cherry (band), Young Americans. Expand index (96 more) »

A Certain Ratio

A Certain Ratio are an English post-punk band formed in 1977 in Wythenshawe, Manchester.

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AC/DC

AC/DC are an Australian rock band, formed in Sydney in 1973 by brothers Malcolm and Angus Young.

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Aerosmith

Aerosmith is an American rock band.

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Alexander O'Neal

Alexander O'Neal (born November 15, 1953) is an American R&B singer, songwriter and arranger from Natchez, Mississippi.

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Alternative rock

Alternative rock (also called alternative music, alt-rock or simply alternative) is a style of rock music that emerged from the independent music underground of the 1980s and became widely popular in the 1990s.

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Always on the Run

"Always on the Run" is the first single released from Mama Said by Lenny Kravitz.

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American Woman

"American Woman" is a song released by the Canadian rock band the Guess Who in November 1969, from their sixth studio album of the same name.

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Another One Bites the Dust

"Another One Bites the Dust" is a 1980 song by British rock band Queen.

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Apollonia 6

Apollonia 6 was a 1980s American female singing trio created by Prince.

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Baggy

Baggy was a British dance-oriented rock music genre popular in the late 1980s and early 1990s.

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Band of Gypsys

Band of Gypsys is a live album by Jimi Hendrix and the first without his original group, the Jimi Hendrix Experience.

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Bass guitar

The bass guitar (also known as electric bass, or bass) is a stringed instrument similar in appearance and construction to an electric guitar, except with a longer neck and scale length, and four to six strings or courses.

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Betty Davis

Betty Davis (nee Mabry; born July 26, 1945) is an American funk and soul singer.

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Black Merda

Black Merda is an American rock band from Detroit, active from the mid-1960s to the early 1970s and reuniting in 2005.

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Blondie (band)

Blondie is an American rock band founded by singer Debbie Harry and guitarist Chris Stein.

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Blood Sugar Sex Magik

Blood Sugar Sex Magik is the fifth studio album by American rock band Red Hot Chili Peppers, released on September 24, 1991.

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Blur (band)

Blur are an English rock band, formed in London in 1988.

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Bootsy Collins

William Earl "Bootsy" Collins (born October 26, 1951) is an American musician and singer-songwriter.

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Britpop

Britpop is a UK based music and culture movement in the mid 1990s which emphasised "Britishness", and produced brighter, catchier alternative rock, partly in reaction to the popularity of the darker lyrical themes of the US-led grunge music, an alternative rock genre, and to the UK's own shoegazing music scene.

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Brownmark

Mark Brown (born March 8, 1962), better known by the stage name Brown Mark, also styled Brownmark and BrownMark, is an American musician, bassist and record producer.

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Caravan to Midnight

Caravan to Midnight is the sixth studio album by Robin Trower.

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Chic (band)

Chic, currently called Nile Rodgers & Chic, is an American band that was organized during 1976 by guitarist Nile Rodgers and bassist Bernard Edwards.

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Classic Rock (magazine)

Classic Rock is a British magazine dedicated to rock music, published by Future PLC, who are also responsible for its "sister" publications Metal Hammer and Prog magazine.

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Come Taste the Band

Come Taste The Band is the tenth studio album by the English rock band Deep Purple, originally released in October 1975.

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Cosmic Slop

Cosmic Slop is the fifth studio album by Funkadelic, released in July 1973 on Westbound Records.

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D'Angelo

Michael Eugene Archer (born February 11, 1974), better known by his stage name D'Angelo (pronounced di-Angelo), is an American singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and record producer.

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Dance-punk

Dance-punk (also known as disco-punk or funk-punk) is a music genre that emerged in the late 1970s, and is closely associated with the post-punk and new wave movements.

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Dance-rock

Dance-rock is a post-disco genre connected with pop rock and post-punk with fewer rhythm and blues influences, originated in the early 1980s, following the mainstream death of punk and disco.

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David Bowie

David Robert Jones (8 January 1947 – 10 January 2016), known professionally as David Bowie, was an English singer-songwriter and actor.

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David Coverdale

David Coverdale (born 22 September 1951) is an English rock singer best known for his work with Whitesnake, a hard rock band he founded in 1978.

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Deep Purple

Deep Purple are an English rock band formed in Hertford in 1968.

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Disco

Disco is a musical style that emerged in the mid 1960s and early 1970s from America's urban nightlife scene, where it originated in house parties and makeshift discothèques, reaching its peak popularity between the mid-1970s and early 1980s.

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Distortion (music)

Distortion and overdrive are forms of audio signal processing used to alter the sound of amplified electric musical instruments, usually by increasing their gain, producing a "fuzzy", "growling", or "gritty" tone.

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Drum

The drum is a member of the percussion group of musical instruments.

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Drum kit

A drum kit — also called a drum set, trap set, or simply drums — is a collection of drums and other percussion instruments, typically cymbals, which are set up on stands to be played by a single player, with drumsticks held in both hands, and the feet operating pedals that control the hi-hat cymbal and the beater for the bass drum.

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Drum machine

A drum machine is an electronic musical instrument that creates percussion.

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Eddie Hazel

Edward Earl Hazel (April 10, 1950 – December 23, 1992) was an American guitarist and singer in early funk music in the United States who played lead guitar with Parliament-Funkadelic.

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Electric guitar

An electric guitar is a guitar that uses one or more pickups to convert the vibration of its strings into electrical signals.

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Experimental rock

Experimental rock (or avant-rock) is a subgenre of rock music which pushes the boundaries of common composition and performance technique or which experiments with the basic elements of the genre.

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Faith No More

Faith No More (sometimes abbreviated as FNM) is an American rock band from San Francisco, California, formed in 1979.

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Fame (David Bowie song)

"Fame" is a song recorded by David Bowie, initially released in 1975.

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Fine Young Cannibals

Fine Young Cannibals were a British rock music band formed in Birmingham, England, in 1984, by bassist David Steele, guitarist Andy Cox (both formerly of The Beat),Fine Young Cannibals and Cherry are success stories; Chris Heim..

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First Rays of the New Rising Sun

First Rays of the New Rising Sun is a collection of songs recorded by American rock musician Jimi Hendrix, mostly intended for his planned fourth studio album.

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Fishbone

Fishbone is an American band formed in 1979 in Los Angeles, California, which plays a fusion of ska, punk rock, funk, heavy rock, and soul.

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Frank Zappa

Frank Vincent Zappa (December 21, 1940 – December 4, 1993) was an American musician, composer, activist and filmmaker.

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Freaky Styley

Freaky Styley is the second studio album by American rock band Red Hot Chili Peppers, released on August 16, 1985 on EMI Records.

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Freedom (Jimi Hendrix song)

"Freedom" is a song by Jimi Hendrix first released in 1971 on the album The Cry of Love.

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Funk

Funk is a music genre that originated in African American communities in the mid-1960s when African American musicians created a rhythmic, danceable new form of music through a mixture of soul music, jazz, and rhythm and blues (R&B).

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Funk metal

Funk metal (also known as thrash funk or punk-funk) is a subgenre of funk rock and alternative metal which infuses heavy metal music (often thrash metal) with elements of funk and punk rock.

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Funkadelic

Funkadelic was an American band that was most prominent during the 1970s.

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Gary Wright

Gary Malcolm Wright (born April 26, 1943) is an American singer, songwriter, musician and composer best known for his 1976 hit songs "Dream Weaver" and "Love Is Alive", and for his role in helping establish the synthesizer as a leading instrument in rock and pop music.

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George Clinton (musician)

George Edward Clinton (born July 22, 1941) is an American singer, songwriter, bandleader, and record producer.

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Georgia (U.S. state)

Georgia is a state in the Southeastern United States.

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Glenn Hughes

Glenn Hughes (born 21 August 1952) is an English rock bassist and vocalist, best known for playing bass and performing vocals for funk rock pioneers Trapeze, the Mk. III and IV line-ups of Deep Purple, as well as briefly fronting Black Sabbath in the mid-1980s.

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Grand Funk Railroad

Grand Funk Railroad, sometimes shortened as Grand Funk, is an American rock band popular during the 1970s, when they toured extensively and played to packed arenas worldwide.

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Happy People (Peace album)

Happy People is the second studio album by British indie rock band Peace, released on 9 February 2015.

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Hardcore Jollies

Hardcore Jollies is the ninth studio album by the funk band Funkadelic, released on October 29, 1976 by Warner Bros. Records, their first album to be issued on a major label.

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Heavy metal music

Heavy metal (or simply metal) is a genre of rock music that developed in the late 1960s and early 1970s, largely in the United Kingdom.

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Hillel Slovak

Hillel Slovak (הלל סלובק; April 13, 1962 – June 25, 1988) was an Israeli American musician best known as the original guitarist and founding member of the Los Angeles rock band Red Hot Chili Peppers.

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Hip hop music

Hip hop music, also called hip-hopMerriam-Webster Dictionary entry on hip-hop, retrieved from: A subculture especially of inner-city black youths who are typically devotees of rap music; the stylized rhythmic music that commonly accompanies rap; also rap together with this music.

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Hot Stuff (The Rolling Stones song)

"Hot Stuff" is a song by English rock and roll band The Rolling Stones off their 1976 album Black and Blue.

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Howard Jones (English musician)

John Howard Jones (born 23 February 1955) is a British singer, musician and songwriter.

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I'm the Slime

"I'm the Slime" is a 1973 single by Frank Zappa and The Mothers from the album Over-Nite Sensation.

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Iggy Pop

James Newell Osterberg Jr. (born April 21, 1947), known professionally by his stage name Iggy Pop, and designated the "Godfather of Punk", is an American singer, songwriter, musician, producer and actor.

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In City Dreams

In City Dreams is guitarist and songwriter Robin Trower's fifth solo studio album.

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Incubus (band)

Incubus is an American rock band from Calabasas, California.

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INXS

INXS (a phonetic play on "in excess") were an Australian rock band, formed as The Farriss Brothers in 1977 in Sydney, New South Wales.

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James Brown

James Joseph Brown (May 3, 1933 – December 25, 2006) was an American singer, songwriter, dancer, musician, record producer and bandleader.

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Jane's Addiction

Jane's Addiction is an American rock band from Los Angeles, formed in 1985.

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Jimi Hendrix

James Marshall "Jimi" Hendrix (born Johnny Allen Hendrix; November 27, 1942 – September 18, 1970) was an American rock guitarist, singer, and songwriter.

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Keyboard instrument

A keyboard instrument is a musical instrument played using a keyboard, a row of levers which are pressed by the fingers.

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Kiss (band)

Kiss (often stylized as KISS) is an American rock band formed in New York City in January 1973 by Paul Stanley, Gene Simmons, Peter Criss, and Ace Frehley.

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Last Child

"Last Child" is a song by American rock band Aerosmith.

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Lenny Kravitz

Leonard Albert Kravitz (born May 26, 1964) is an American singer, songwriter, actor and record producer.

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Let's Take It to the Stage

Let's Take It to the Stage is the seventh album by American funk/soul/rock band Funkadelic.

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List of funk rock bands

The following is a list of funk rock bands.

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Little Richard

Richard Wayne Penniman (born December 5, 1932), known as Little Richard, is an American musician, songwriter, singer, and actor.

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Living Colour

Living Colour is an American rock band from New York City, formed in 1984.

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Lynyrd Skynyrd

Lynyrd Skynyrd, or informally shortened to Skynyrd, is an American rock band best known for having popularized the Southern rock genre during the 1970s.

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Maceo Parker

Maceo Parker (born February 14, 1943) is an American funk and soul jazz saxophonist, best known for his work with James Brown in the 1960s, as well as Parliament-Funkadelic in the 1970s.

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Maggot Brain

Maggot Brain is the third studio album by the American funk band Funkadelic.

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Mangue Bit

The mangue bit or manguebeat movement is a cultural movement created circa 1991 in the city of Recife in Northeast Brazil in reaction to the cultural and economical stagnation of the city.

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Mazarati

Mazarati was an American R&B band formed in the mid-1980s by former Prince and The Revolution bassist Brownmark.

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Minneapolis sound

The Minneapolis sound is a subgenre of funk rock with elements of synth-pop and new wave, that was pioneered by Prince in the late 1970s.

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Mother Love Bone

Mother Love Bone was an American rock band that formed in Seattle, Washington, in 1987.

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Mother's Finest

Mother's Finest is an American funk rock band founded in Atlanta, Georgia, by the vocal duo of Joyce "Baby Jean" Kennedy and Glenn "Doc" Murdock in 1970 when the pair met up with guitarist Gary "Moses Mo" Moore and bassist Jerry "Wyzard" Seay.

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Mr. Bungle

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Music genre

A music genre is a conventional category that identifies some pieces of music as belonging to a shared tradition or set of conventions.

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Neo soul

Neo soul is a genre of popular music.

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New wave music

New wave is a genre of rock music popular in the late 1970s and the 1980s with ties to mid-1970s punk rock.

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One Nation Under a Groove

One Nation Under a Groove is the tenth studio album by American funk and rock band Funkadelic, released on September 22, 1978 on Warner Bros. Records.

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Over-Nite Sensation

Over-Nite Sensation is a studio album by Frank Zappa and The Mothers of Invention.

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P-Funk

P-Funk (also spelled P Funk or P. Funk) is the repertoire and performers associated with George Clinton.

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Parliament (band)

Parliament is a funk band formed in the late 1960s by George Clinton as part of his Parliament-Funkadelic collective.

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Parliament-Funkadelic

Parliament-Funkadelic (abbreviated as P-Funk) is an American funk music collective of rotating musicians headed by George Clinton, primarily consisting of the individual bands Parliament and Funkadelic, both active since the 1960s.

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Peace (band)

Peace are an English indie rock quartet, formed in Worcester.

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Pigbag

Pigbag were a British post-punk band, active from 1980 to 1983.

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Play That Funky Music

"Play That Funky Music" is a song written by Rob Parissi and recorded by the band Wild Cherry.

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Post-punk

Post-punk (originally called new musick) is a broad type of rock music that emerged from the punk movement of the 1970s, in which artists departed from the simplicity and traditionalism of punk rock to adopt a variety of avant-garde sensibilities.

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Primus (band)

Primus is an American rock band based in San Francisco, California, currently composed of bassist/vocalist Les Claypool, guitarist Larry "Ler" LaLonde and drummer Tim "Herb" Alexander.

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Prince (musician)

Prince Rogers Nelson (June 7, 1958 – April 21, 2016) was an American singer, songwriter, musician, record producer and filmmaker.

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Psychedelic funk

Psychedelic funk (or funkadelia) is a music genre that combines funk music with elements of psychedelic rock.

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Psychedelic music

Psychedelic music (sometimes psychedelia) covers a wide range of popular music styles and genres influenced by 1960s psychedelia, a subculture of people who used psychedelic drugs such as LSD, psilocybin mushrooms, mescaline and DMT to experience visual and auditory hallucinations, synesthesia and altered states of consciousness.

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Psychedelic rock

Psychedelic rock is a diverse style of rock music inspired, influenced, or representative of psychedelic culture, which is centred around perception-altering hallucinogenic drugs.

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Punk rock

Punk rock (or "punk") is a rock music genre that developed in the mid-1970s in the United States, United Kingdom, and Australia.

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Queen (band)

Queen are a British rock band that formed in London in 1970.

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Rage Against the Machine

Rage Against the Machine is an American rock band from Los Angeles, California.

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Rap rock

Rap rock is a fusion genre that fuses vocal and instrumental elements of hip hop with various forms of rock.

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Red Hot Chili Peppers

Red Hot Chili Peppers are an American funk rock band formed in Los Angeles in 1983.

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Redbone (band)

Redbone is a Native American rock group originating in the 1970s with brothers Pat and Lolly Vegas.

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Republic of Loose

Republic of Loose werehttps://twitter.com/MIKPYRO/status/499223935196889088 an Irish funk rock band from Dublin.

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Rhythm and blues

Rhythm and blues, commonly abbreviated as R&B, is a genre of popular music that originated in African American communities in the 1940s.

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Rick Derringer

Rick Derringer (born Ricky Dean Zehringer; August 5, 1947) is an American guitarist, vocalist, Grammy Award-winning producer and entertainer.

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Rick James

Rick James (born James Ambrose Johnson Jr. February 1, 1948August 6, 2004) was an American singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and producer.

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Ritchie Blackmore

Richard Hugh Blackmore (born 14 April 1945) is an English guitarist and songwriter.

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Robin Trower

Robin Leonard Trower (born 9 March 1945) is an English rock guitarist and vocalist who achieved success with Procol Harum during the 1960s, and then again as the bandleader of his own power trio known as Robin Trower.

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Rock music

Rock music is a broad genre of popular music that originated as "rock and roll" in the United States in the early 1950s, and developed into a range of different styles in the 1960s and later, particularly in the United Kingdom and in the United States.

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Rustee Allen

Rustee Allen (born March 13, 1953) is an American musician best known as the bass guitar player for the influential funk band Sly and the Family Stone from 1972 to 1975.

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Scritti Politti

Scritti Politti are a British band, originally formed in 1977 in Leeds, Yorkshire, England, by the Welsh singer-songwriter Green Gartside.

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Singing

Singing is the act of producing musical sounds with the voice and augments regular speech by the use of sustained tonality, rhythm, and a variety of vocal techniques.

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Snoop Dogg

Calvin Cordozar Broadus Jr. (born October 20, 1971), known professionally as Snoop Dogg, is an American rapper, singer, songwriter, record producer, television personality and actor.

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Standing on the Verge of Getting It On

Standing on the Verge of Getting It On is the sixth studio album by Funkadelic, released on Westbound Records, released in April 1974.

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Stevie Salas

Stevie Salas is a Native American guitarist, author, television host, music director, record producer, film composer, and Advisor of Contemporary Music at The Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian.

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Stormbringer (album)

Stormbringer is the ninth studio album by the English hard rock band Deep Purple, released in November 1974.

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Synth-pop

Synth-pop (short for synthesizer pop; also called techno-pop) is a subgenre of new wave music that first became prominent in the late 1970s and features the synthesizer as the dominant musical instrument.

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T. M. Stevens

Thomas Michael "T.M." Stevens (born July 28, 1951) is an American bass guitarist from New York City.

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Talking Heads

Talking Heads was an American rock band formed in 1975 in New York City and active until 1991.

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Terence Trent D'Arby

Sananda Francesco Maitreya (born Terence Trent Howard, March 15, 1962), better known by his former stage name Terence Trent D'Arby, is an American singer and songwriter who came to fame with his debut studio album, Introducing the Hardline According to Terence Trent D'Arby, released in July 1987, which included the singles "If You Let Me Stay", "Wishing Well", "Dance Little Sister" and "Sign Your Name".

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The Bar-Kays

The Bar-Kays are an American soul, R&B, and funk group formed in 1966.

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The Electric Spanking of War Babies

The Electric Spanking of War Babies is the 13th studio album by the American funk band Funkadelic, released in April 1981 on Warner Bros. Records.

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The Family (band)

The Family was a band formed by Prince, and one of the first signed to Prince's record label, Paisley Park Records.

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The Idiot (album)

The Idiot is the debut solo album by American rock singer Iggy Pop.

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The Jimi Hendrix Experience

The Jimi Hendrix Experience was an American-English rock band that formed in Westminster, London, in September 1966.

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The Rolling Stones

The Rolling Stones are an English rock band formed in London, England, in 1962.

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The Time (band)

The Time, also known as Morris Day and the Time and The Original 7ven, is an American musical group that was formed in Minneapolis in 1981.

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The Uplift Mofo Party Plan

The Uplift Mofo Party Plan is the third studio album by American rock band Red Hot Chili Peppers, released on September 29, 1987 by EMI Records.

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Things Can Only Get Better (Howard Jones song)

"Things Can Only Get Better" was released as the first single from Howard Jones' 1985 album Dream Into Action, reaching #6 in the UK Singles Chart and #5 in the United States on the Billboard Hot 100 chart.

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Tom Tom Club

Tom Tom Club is an American new wave band founded in 1981 by husband-and-wife team Tina Weymouth and Chris Frantz, both also known for being members of Talking Heads.

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Tommy Bolin

Thomas Richard Bolin (August 1, 1951 – December 4, 1976) was an American guitarist and songwriter who played with Zephyr (from 1969 to 1971), James Gang (from 1973 through 1974), and Deep Purple (from 1975 to 1976), in addition to maintaining a notable career as a solo artist and session musician.

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Trapeze (band)

Trapeze were an English rock band from Cannock, Staffordshire.

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United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain,Usage is mixed with some organisations, including the and preferring to use Britain as shorthand for Great Britain is a sovereign country in western Europe.

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Untitled (How Does It Feel)

"Untitled (How Does It Feel)" is a song by American recording artist D'Angelo, released January 1, 2000 on Virgin Records in the United States.

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Voodoo (D'Angelo album)

Voodoo is the second studio album by American neo soul singer and multi-instrumentalist D'Angelo.

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War (band)

War (originally called Eric Burdon and War) is an American funk band from Long Beach, California, known for several hit songs (including "Spill the Wine", "The World Is a Ghetto", "The Cisco Kid", "Why Can't We Be Friends?", "Low Rider", and "Summer").

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Wild Cherry (band)

Wild Cherry was an American funk rock band best known for their song "Play That Funky Music".

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Young Americans

Young Americans is the ninth studio album by the English musician David Bowie, released on 7 March 1975 by RCA Records.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Funk_rock

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