No one disputes that they are hugely influential icons virtually alone among past-60 boomer heroes who can still rock. But have they created enough memorable music in the past 25 years to still merit ...

It’s hard to imagine the course pop music might have taken in the psychedelic ’60s had Sylvester Stewart not emerged at that pivotal moment as the leader of Sly and the Family Stone, a racially ...

The '80s were somehow the best and worst of times for the Rolling Stones. At the beginning of the decade, the band was still riding the commercial high of 1978's Some Girls. There were massive, ...

The Rolling Stones are known for plenty of incredible songs, but nothing quite beats the instrumental introduction to the 1969 hit song “Gimme Shelter”. It’s one of the most instantly recognizable ...

Funk, rock and soul maverick Sly Stone died at 82 on Monday (June 9). According to a statement from his family, the Rock and Roll Hall of Famer’s passing came after “a prolonged battle with COPD and ...

The Rolling Stones have been around a long time. Long enough, certainly, for their catalog to amass a collection of cover versions from artists spanning genres and generations. The great thing about ...

Sylvester Stewart — known to most of the world as Sly Stone, who passed away at 82 on Monday — was one of the most important musicians not only of the rock-soul era — because his music combined both, ...

The Rolling Stones’ music catalog is as diverse and colorful as a wild pasture in spring. They pull from every genre of music and leave no stone unturned. Consequently, they have blues songs, gospel ...