This article highlights the transition from R&B to funk, showcasing 25 essential albums that feature both iconic and ...

Earth, Wind & Fire wrapped up their three-night stand at the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles on Friday, July 4. It wasn’t only ...

Playing as many as 150 gigs a year in 38 states and in more than nine different countries, the Lincoln-based Josh Hoyer & Soul Colossal epitomizes what it means to be a real working band.

With multiple chart-topping hits like 'Butter', 'Dynamite', 'Boy with Luv', and 'On' under their belts, sold-out tours around the world, and paving the way for ...

The band’s breakthrough came in 1968, when the title track to their second album, Dance To The Music, cracked the Top 10. A year later, Sly and the Family Stone performed at Woodstock before dawn.

Sly Stone, the American musician who lit up generations of dancefloors with his gloriously funky and often socially conscious songwriting, has died aged 82. “After a prolonged battle with COPD ...

American soul funk group, Sly And The Family Stone, September 1970. Left to right: Larry Graham, Jerry Martini, Gregg Errico, Sly Stone, Freddie Stone and Cynthia Robinson.

June 9 (UPI) -- Sly Stone, the legendary Sixties and Seventies funk singer, songwriter and producer of the band, Sly and the Family Stone, died Monday at the age of 82.

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Sly Stone, one of the most influential and groundbreaking musicians of the late Sixties and early Seventies who smashed the boundaries of rock, pop, funk, and soul, died today. He was 82.

Sly Stone, the singular and visionary artist whose electrifying blend of funk, soul, rock, and gospel reshaped popular music and challenged societal norms with his groundbreaking band, Sly and the ...

The band played gospel music, seemingly a far cry from the funk and psychedelia he would later become known for, but Sly and the Family Stone would become known for its blending of music styles.