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

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 ...

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

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 ...

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

Questlove, director of the Sly Stone documentary Sly Lives, looks back at the late artist's genius and pain in a new essay ...

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.