On characteristically short notice, Prince invited me here to report what we intend to be his seventh Rolling Stone cover ...

Poetry combined with hip-hop, classical and pop music has young poets competing for prizes from $100 to $1,000 at this year’s ...

A Tribe Called Quest’s People’s Instinctive Travels and the Paths of Rhythm begins with a shimmer — a soft static that sounds like the surf breaking in slow motion. At first it’s low. Then it gets ...

Directors Stanley Nelson and Nicole London join the latest episode of Deadline’s Doc Talk podcast to explore the music and its key innovators including James Brown, George Clinton and Sly Stone.

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‘Sly & The Family Stone,’ seen here in 1968 are the subject of a documentary directed by Questlove. Michael Ochs Archives/Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images A new calendar year means a new set ...

The scammer gained the employees’ trust over time, convincing them they were someone they weren’t,” Baltimore City Comptroller Bill Henry told the AFRO. Sign up for our Daily eBlast to get ...

Their contemporaries, like James Brown, Sly Stone, and Funkadelic, were looking to them for clues on where the genre was going. Their notable songs include “Cissy Strut”, “Look-Ka Py Py ...

There’s something that, as Sly and the Family Stone sings, ‘takes you higher.’ ’’ Funk music also took us higher back then because of a quality that’s missing today from popular music ...