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

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

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 endless possibility of sound.

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 Sylvester Stewart in Denton, Texas, in 1943 and grew up in Vallejo, ...

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 that half-decade helped map the future. The singer, songwriter, producer and ...

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 ...

This collection, Everyday People: The Essential Sly And The Family Stone, celebrates one of the authors of modern funk. Stone led a pioneering fusion of soul, rock, psychedelia and gospel. Here are ...

Ostensibly it covers the career of Sly Stone, the prodigious musician who, during the late '60s and '70s, generated some of the most beloved songs of all time with ... are intriguing but not essential ...

“I hate to say it,” the rhythm and blues singer D’Angelo ventures toward the end of Questlove’s new documentary “Sly Lives!” (streaming on Hulu), “but these White rock-and-rollers ...

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 ...