SAN FRANCISCO (CBS SF) -- One of most legendary British funk outfits of the 1970s that made a surprise return to activity several years ago plays its first San Francisco show in decades when Cymande ...

Originally ignored by fans in the U.K., the psychedelic funk band was later embraced by hip-hop groups like De La Soul and The Fugees. British funk band Cymande are finally getting their flowers When ...

Back in 2005, when the New Mastersounds made their first pilgrimage to the U.S., bandleader Eddie Roberts was still trying to get over the idea of a British band playing American funk to an American ...

Baby Bouncer; Can't Hold Me Down; Land Of Nod; Ode To Bobbie Gentry; Hole In The Bag; All I Want (Right Now); The Minx; Better Off Dead; La Cova; Nervous; Thermal Bad; Your Love Is Mine; Colorado Sun ...

When British four-piece The New Mastersounds were invited to play in America in 2004, it was like stumbling into a fairy tale, said guitarist Eddie Roberts. For years, they had performed funk music to ...

The first British band to command the stage at Harlem's famed Apollo Theater wasn't the Beatles or the Rolling Stones. It was Cymande. (SOUNDBITE OF SONG, "CHASING AN EMPTY DREAM") CYMANDE: (Singing) ...

George Clinton, the founding father of funk, is the creator of the bands Parliament and Funkadelic. We'll ask him three questions about another kind of parliament — namely, the British Parliament.

When Cymande released their self-titled debut album in 1972, their unique blend of calypso, reggae, funk and jazz struck a chord with American audiences. Back home in the U.K., the band was largely ...