June saw the loss of several influential figures in music, sports, and beyond. Brian Wilson was the creative force behind The ...

From Eddie Cochran’s “Summertime Blues” to Sly and the Family Stone’s “Hot Fun in the Summertime” to Harry Styles’ ...

Famous for his hits with Sly and the Family Stone, the abundantly talented musician created infectious and enduring music in the 1960s and 1970s.

James McMurtry reminds me, line by line, that music can still do more than decorate our playlists. It can hold our hands ...

Sly Stone turned solitude into sonic innovation, inspiring generations with home-studio funk and loop-based recording.

Playing as many as 150 gigs a year in 38 states and in more than nine different countries, the Lincoln-based Josh Hoyer & ...

Mick Ralphs, founding guitarist and a key songwriter for rock groups popular Bad Company and Mott the Hoople, has died at 81.

"It's been a blast," 84-year-old radio legend wrote in a message to fans, "but I have come to the decision that I need to hang up my top hat soon" ...

And long before sampling defined the sound of hip-hop, he was using tape and machine rhythms to deconstruct existing songs ... producer Sly and the Family Stone's early albums -- including "Dance to ...

Today, millions of musicians record and splice tracks from their bedrooms, closets and garages. Half a century ago, the funk ...

Carnie Wilson, the Beach Boys, John Cusack, John Stamos, Elizabeth Banks, and more paid tribute to Brian Wilson following the ...

Beach Boys songs have endured from turntables and transistor ... promising himself he would not only keep up with the British band, but top them. Sly Stone, leader of funk revolutionaries Sly and the ...