Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Funk music pioneer Sly Stone has died "after a prolonged battle with COPD and other underlying health issues," his family said ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Sly Stone, the frontman of the revolutionary band Sly and the Family Stone, has died following several health issues. He was 82.

Grand Funk Railroad extends their summer tour, but it’s bittersweet as they bid farewell to lead singer Max Carl.

Chart-Topping “King of Funk Rock” Returns with a High-Energy Party Anthem on MTS Records. LEWISTON, ID – Acclaimed funk rock powerhouse Billy Ray Rock, widely known as the “King of Funk Rock,” is set ...

An eight-piece funk band consisting of 5,000-year-old Egyptian Mummies isn't a hard sell for most music fans looking a spooky thrill at any time of the year. To offer said band up in October is the ...

Northampton-based funk sextet Fat Bradley’s new self-titled five-song extended play (EP) recording is an acid jazz fusion of instrumental kaleidoscopic funky rock that grooves along with frantic ...

Sly Stone was a musical alchemist, combining soul, funk, and psychedelic rock with elements of gospel, jazz, and Latin music to create the new sound of the 1960s. With his prodigious Afro and platform ...

Sly Stone, a Grammy winner whose pioneering funk-rock group Sly and the Family Stone produced groundbreaking albums and singles — three of which topped the Billboard Hot 100 — and was the subject of ...

In 1975, David Bowie moved away from his glam rock persona with the song “Fame.” The funk rock classic from Bowie’s ninth studio album, Young Americans, hit No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 on September ...

Sly Stone, the frontman of the revolutionary band Sly and the Family Stone, has died following several health issues. He was 82. “It is with profound sadness that we announce the passing of our ...