June 9 (Reuters) - Sly Stone, the driving force behind Sly and the Family Stone, a multiracial American band whose boiling mix of rock, soul and psychedelia embodied 1960s idealism and helped ...

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 ...

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 ...

Film was a hotbed for funk music during the early part of the 1970s, with soundtracks forming a significant part of the genre’s popularitys. Isaac Hayes began his career at Stax in the ’60s as a ...

Why has funk music endured for more than 60 years? Though not scientifically proven, the deep grooves that are the genre's backbone have an irresistibly dance-able quality that can be found in ...

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.” ...