June is Black Music Month, and on June 19, or Juneteenth, we recognize the liberation of enslaved people in America. But complete liberation goes far beyond the shackles of slavery. […] ...

Stone, born Sylvester Stewart, had been in poor health in recent years. His publicist Carleen Donovan said Stone died in Los ...

Steve McQueen is the product of two pop geniuses pulling in different directions and reveals a brilliant road seldom ...

Sly Stone has died, aged 82. You could say that the music world has lost a giant talent, were it not for the sad truth that ...

In a 1978 interview with Nick Kent, James Brown — himself hardly unacquainted with personal dysfunction — said of Stone, with obvious sadness, “he messed up so bad!”. In the five intervening years, ...

Revolutionary funk musician Sly Stone, whose Sly and the Family Stone redefined popular music in the late 1960s and early ...

The lack of modern protest music is a phenomenon decades in the making, but now the silence is louder than ever.

A revolutionary musician and dynamic showman, Sly Stone fronted Sly and the Family Stone, which transformed popular music in ...