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

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

James Hetfield and Metallica will perform on Saturday at NRG Stadium. Shows from Pierce the Veil, Wu-Tang Clan, Shakira and Heart are also on tap this week.

He’ll be remembered as an artist who changed the way people make and listen to music, and who did that twice. Sly was born ...

Sly Stone’s hit-making era lasted all of six years — from the end of 1967 to the end of 1973 — but the music he made over ...

People" to "Dance to the Music," these are Sly & the Family Stone's best songs and greatest hits, a tribute to the legacy of ...

But if the group released so many incredible songs, why do we remember them now mostly for the personal troubles of bandleader, composer and multi-instrumentalist Sly Stone? That question ...

When the band eventually split up and Sly Stone needed more money later on, he started trying to write again, but his songs simply didn’t have the same impact as some of his earlier classics. Little ...

After Elvis Presley, Bob Dylan, John Lennon, and Paul McCartney, a late-1960s American magazine boldly predicted that Sly Stone (born ... brought about by Stone. “The whole model was unknown, whether ...

The story of Sly Stone ... the Family Stone and on the influential music. The latter is broken down by Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis, who deconstruct as best they can, a couple Sly songs and tell ...

Notably, the gospel-infused “Higher” evolved into a core component of Sly and the Family Stone’s live shows. Although the ingenuity of converting a church call-and-response into a single is clear, the ...