Despite being brought together by Island Records' Chris Blackwell to record one Grace Jones record, Compass Point All-Stars wound up becoming Bahamian folklore.

Paul Cornish is no stranger to the piano. He has been playing since he was a teenager and performed with the likes of HAIM and Kanye West. Now he has stepped off the sidelines and into the spotlight ...

Like The Mighty Rootsmen, a new self-titled album from the Kingston Lions was produced by Ralph Sall and contains old (circa 2008) recordings. This CD features luminous Jamaican session musicians and ...

Robbie Brewer, a short-track racecar driver, died over the weekend after suffering a medical emergency while competing in a race. Brewer’s vehicle smashed head-on into a wall at Bowman Gray Stadium in ...

It happened this past week ... we learned of the passing of two giants of popular music: Brian Wilson, of the Beach Boys; and Sly Stone, frontman of Sly and the Family Stone. Born Sylvester Stewart in ...

The glossy silver foil finish inside and outside the covers of The First Family: Live at Winchester Cathedral 1967 to some degree belies the sound quality of the music inside. But the assiduous effort ...

Once upon a time, being in a rock band meant, ipso facto, being in a cover band. There are still plenty of cover bands, of course, but the Beatles and especially punk helped move it from being the ...

Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Musically, Brian Wilson and Sly Stone seemingly had little in common. Wilson was the dominant ...

June 13 (UPI) --In the fall of 1971, Sly and the Family Stone's "There's a Riot Goin' On" landed like a quiet revolution. After two years of silence following the band's mainstream success, fans ...

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,” ...

Brian Wilson, the musical mastermind behind the Beach Boys, died at the age of 82, his family announced Wednesday. Earlier this week came news of the passing of Sly Stone, 82, whose startling ...

For a roughly half a decade spanning the late 1960s and early 1970s, Sly Stone, who died on Monday at age 82, commandeered the direction of popular music in a way that few artists had before him and ...