It happened this past week ... we learned of the passing of two giants of popular music: Brian Wilson, of the Beach Boys; and Sly Stone, frontman of Sly and the Family Stone. Musician Sly Stone, of ...

There was an odd symmetry to the near-simultaneous deaths of Sly Stone and Brian Wilson at age 82 last week. "Both of them poets of summer," Rob Sheffield says in the new episode of Rolling Stone ...

June 2025 will be remembered for what it took away: two of American music's most visionary architects, Brian Wilson and Sly Stone. Wallace Stevens once wrote, "The pure products of America go crazy." ...

We throw out too easily words such as superstar, mythical, legendary. What requires super beyond star, already explosive and bright? What myths are told? How have they created legend? P.S: If you have ...

We lost two music luminaries this past week. Sly Stone and Brian Wilson died two days apart, both 82 years old, geniuses of vastly different musical persuasions whose periods of greatest flourishing ...

Soulive have returned with “Flowers at Your Feet,” the second single from their forthcoming album Flowers. After heralding their first full-length studio album in a decade and a half with “Baby ...

Once upon a time, being in a rock band meant, ipso facto, being in a cover band. There are still plenty of cover bands, of course, but the Beatles and especially punk helped move it from being the ...

(THE CONVERSATION) – 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 ...

It happened this past week ... we learned of the passing of two giants of popular music: Brian Wilson, of the Beach Boys; and Sly Stone, frontman of Sly and the Family Stone. Born Sylvester Stewart in ...