New Orleans singer-songwriter and War Bunnies vocalist Sabrina Stone celebrates her birthday with a singer-songwriter night ...

Every time you turn on the radio, you are hearing Sly Stone. That’s not literal. It’s not just a poetic exaggeration, either. Whether your bag is rock or rap or soul or pop, the artists you love ...

One of the key figures in American music in the late ’60s got his professional start in the Bay Area. These are some of the spots that were crucial to his career. By Marc Tracy Several cities played ...

In the fall of 1971, Sly and the Family Stone’s “There’s a Riot Goin’ On” landed like a quiet revolution. After two years of silence following the band’s mainstream success, fans expected more ...

The influential musician, who died on Monday at 82, forged harmony — musical and otherwise — that he wasn’t able to hold together on his own. By Wesley Morris “Landscape” is just one of those words.

Before Bob Dylan released “Like A Rolling Stone” in 1965, he was the golden boy of folk music. He was seemingly pigeonholeed into the genre, and exterior forces consistently prevented him from ...

Not even in a world this big, bad, beautiful, wonderful, horrible, overstimulated and hyperbolic can we begin to overstate the importance of Sly Stone. His death on Monday at 82 feels too enormous, ...

He shifted the dial on pop culture: Sly Stone (third from left) and the Family Stone in 1970 - Redferns Sly Stone has died, aged 82. You could say that the music world has lost a giant talent, were it ...

Few artists left so large an imprint on music history in so short a burst of activity as Sly Stone, who died Monday at 82. At his creative peak as the mastermind of Sly and the Family Stone, the ...

The 29-year-old has scored two Academy Award nominations, but just earned his first nom for music's biggest night.