The music world mourns Sly Stone, funk pioneer and leader of Sly and the Family Stone, who died in Los Angeles at 82.

Stone had a capacity for summing up the zeitgeist of an America in social transition, from collective joy to racial harmony, ...

Tiring of making frothy pop, the late Brian Wilson threw away his Beach Boys’ template, assembled a battalion of top session ...

Ben Fong-Torres reflects on one his first Rolling Stone cover stories: Sly and the Family Stone in March 1970.

Saying farewell to Sly Stone, whose avant-funk vision changed the world and influenced generations of musicians ...

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

The legendary MC took the stage in front of a sold-out crowd at the iconic venue for a generation spanning run through his extensive catalog ...

The Rolling Stones are reportedly back in the studio and working on a new album, after rumours that they had scrapped plans ...

By Roy Trakin Sly Stone, who took audiences higher during ... The transformative masterpiece of race and song — a template for the later work of Kanye West and Kendrick Lamar, among others ...

Taylor won. How did this happen? “I’m trying to gather my thoughts into something coherent,” Taylor wrote in her bombshell public statement. “But right now my mind is just a slideshow. A flashback ...