F ifty-five summers ago, a riot broke out in Chicago’s Grant Park, where Sly and the Family Stone was booked to play a ...

Sly & The Family Stone's "Family Affair" saw a splintering band reach the highest heights of pop music one last time.

Sometimes there are strange symmetries in death, as in life. The twin passings of Sly Stone and Brian Wilson this week brought that into sharp relief.

Legendary Funk Pioneer Sly Stone Dies at 82 By Stacy M. Brown Black Press USA Senior National Correspondent Sylvester “Sly” ...

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F or Father’s Day weekend, the movies will serve you absolutely nothing for your fathers. Maybe The Life of Chuck, but what an emotionally devastating film to celebrate with — ...

Today, millions of musicians record and splice tracks from their bedrooms, closets and garages. Half a century ago, the funk pioneer revolutionized home recording.

Questlove and Black Thought are working together on a new narrative and immersive film focusing on “Hip-Hop’s soul.” ...

Sly Stone, the revolutionary musician and dynamic showman whose Sly and the Family Stone transformed popular music in the ...

There are almost no corners of the music world that Beach Boys co-founder Brian Wilson didn’t touch, so since news broke ...

Singer Brian Wilson died at the age of 82. Wilson was a co-founder of the Beach Boys and was widely credited with inventing pop music as the chief songwriter of the group.