Some cool folks are celebrating milestone birthdays in July, turning 30, 40, 50, 80 and Ringo Starr who just turned 85!

Take a break “under the stars” this week in Connecticut with a ballet in Danbury and Hartford, a jazz tribute to R&B star Charles Neville in Simsbury, three bands who had chart hits in the 2000s in ...

A snippet of music history will hit the shelves on July 18 with the new Sly & The Family Stone album The First Family: Live ...

Sly & The Family Stone, photo courtesy of High Moon Records. On June 9, Sly Stone, the fearless innovator behind Sly & The ...

The Otis Redding cover appears on the upcoming LP The First Family, which contains the earliest known live recording of the ...

Post Malone took an unexpected fall from the stage during a recent stop on his current Big Ass Stadium Tour. The incident, ...

Sly and the Family Stone did however, break major ground by being a multi-racial, multi-gendered group where many of the players played multiple different instruments.

Sly and the Family Stone (1968) Stone and his band achieved artistic success and wild popularity in the late 1960s and early 1970s with songs such as “Everyday People,” “Hot Fun in the ...

A graduate-level course in pop, hosted by Ron Boogiemonster Gerber since 1992, originating from KFAI/Minneapolis, Friday nights 10 to midnight.

Jazz musician Sly and the Family Stone's bio, concert & touring information, albums, reviews, videos, photos and more.

TLDR: Sly Stone turned isolation into innovation, creating a sound that shaped generations of music-makers and helped redefine American funk, soul, and rock.

Villages-News.com's Tony Violanti looks back on the legacies of music pioneers Sly Stone and Brian Wilson.