MCA bought Motown Records; The Who's bass player was chosen as the best; The Jackson 5 was at the top of the charts with "The ...

Grahame Lesh & Friends closed out the inaugural Hudson River Music Festival with a memorable take on a Grateful Dead-catalog ...

His publicist said that Stone died in Los Angeles surrounded by family after contending with chronic obstructive pulmonary ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Sly Stone, the revolutionary musician and dynamic showman whose Sly and the Family Stone transformed popular music in the 1960s and ’70s and beyond with such hits as “Everyday People,” ...

Leading Sly and the Family Stone, he helped redefine the landscape of pop, funk and rock in the late 1960s and early ’70s.

From early songs as rousing as their titles — “I Want To Take ... Grace Slick’s group before she joined the Jefferson Airplane. Along with an early mentor and champion, San Francisco deejay Tom “Big ...

Laugh” and “Just a Little” and the Great Society’s “Somebody to Love,” later a smash in a new version by vocalist Grace Slick’s subsequent band Jefferson Airplane. Now rechristened “Sly Stone,” he ...

Today in Music History for June 26: ...

After a run-in with police in New Orleans, The Grateful Dead used the incident as part of their hit song "Truckin'." ...

War, drugs, and racial tensions set the stage for the summer of 1967.

Never Plenty contains no information besides the band name and song titles, and certainly no lyric sheet. “I don’t share lyrics,” Max says. The band doesn’t explain its name either, preferring to keep ...