F ifty-five summers ago, a riot broke out in Chicago’s Grant Park, where Sly and the Family Stone was booked to play a ...

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Cultural historian and music journalist Chris Williams reflects on the social influence of musician Sly Stone. He speaks to ...

Sly Stone, who created visionary psychedelic rock, soul and pop that helped integrate popular music and captured harsh social ...

I’M BACK! From Norway, sorry I had to skip a column. A year older, rested and rarin’ to go and now it’s not t-Rump attacking just the arts, but now going after LA, CA, Newsom and Bass, Marines in the ...

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

Sometimes there are strange symmetries in death, as in life. The twin passings of Sly Stone and Brian Wilson this week brought that into sharp relief.