Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Sly Stone, frontman of the group Sly and the Family Stone, performs in concert at Olympia Hall in Paris on July 23, 2007. Stone, ...

How to make old styles sound fresh? Dallas' Silver Skylarks give a master class on the topic on The Number One Set and Sound, a debut album fusing '60s soul, '70s funk and '90s hip-hop into one ...

Sly Stone — who easily ranks among the most important and influential Bay Area musicians of all time — died Monday in Los Angeles. He was 82. The Woodstock veteran, who had reportedly been in poor ...

Michael Sumler, who was the iconic stylist, promoter and choreographer for the group Kool & the Gang, died Sunday in a car crash in Georgia, the Los Angeles Times reported. He was 71. 11Alive, a news ...

The foundations of funk were laid down in the mid-1960s, when James Brown began to emphasize the first beat of each measure in his stage-tested and frenzy-inducing R&B songs. Before the decade’s end, ...

Musicians Nathan Link and Alex Emslie of the band Radio Veloso joined host Jessica Wills to chat about their music and the release of their first full album earlier this year “And Other Subjects.” ...

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. Stone, whose hits included ...