Sly Stone, the visionary frontman of Sly and the Family Stone, died at age 82 on June 9, 2025, after a groundbreaking career that revolutionized popular music with its blend of funk, soul, rock, and ...

We used assistance from ChatGPT to comb through thousands of sources to determine the most universally beloved and culturally significant songs of all time.

Sly Stone, the iconic frontman of the band Sly and the Family Stone, and an influential figure in funk, soul and rock, has ...

The Beach Boys' co-founder transformed pop music into high art and became America's answer to The Beatles' Lennon and ...

Marvin Gaye’s cover of “I Heard It Through The Grapevine” peaked at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 for seven consecutive weeks. In addition to the Hot 100, it also peaked at No. 1 on the Billboard R&B ...

I first met Brian Wilson in early 1962 at a record shop in Culver City when the Beach Boys were doing an in store appearance to promote their record “Surfin’” on the Candix label. In 1965 I talked to ...

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. […] ...

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.