Two of music’s powerful visionaries died this week. The songs they meticulously constructed offered an escape their makers ...

Following Sly Stone's passing, we explore how one of the funk icon's most enduring grooves turns minimal harmony into maximum ...

Junior Mance does an instrumental version that begins with an essential hip-hop breakbeat ... fighting the devil and then list a bunch of his own song titles? I can't pretend to understand Sly Stone's ...

July 2025’s new music releases include albums from the resurgent Styx, the reuniting Alice Cooper group and the remastered ...

Wilson, who died Wednesday at 82, was one of music’s true visionaries, if that’s the right word for a guy who dealt in the ...

Keith Richards, Mick Fleetwood and more are sharing tributes to Brian Wilson following the death of the legendary Beach Boys ...

Archivist Alec Palao talks about his time spent with the late legend, and how the rare live album The First Family: Live at ...

Saying farewell to Sly Stone, whose avant-funk vision changed the world and influenced generations of musicians ...

Sly And The Family Stone hit a major peak in the summer of 1969. "Hot Fun In The Summertime" caught the spirit of that era.

His songs, for generations of listeners, provided community, solace, and a sense of understanding.

(AP Photo/Lennox McLendon, File) Rock star Sylvester “Sly” Stone of Sly and the Family Stone appears in April 1972. (AP Photo, File) Musician Brian Wilson poses for a portrait at his home in Los ...