It’s been more than three months since Mark Farner’s American Band played a concert, so he’s amped for the next show on his calendar, a June 26 stop at Jergel’s Rhythm Grille in Warrendale. “When we ...

Discover 8 Larry Graham songs that highlight his legacy in funk and soul. From timeless ballads to groundbreaking bass-driven ...

Stone, an eccentric whose songs of uplift were tempered by darker themes of struggle and disillusionment, had a fall as steep ...

Not many bands can evolve over time while maintaining their unique style, but the Red Hot Chili Peppers have succeeded.

Rodney Brown, drummer on 1967's "Funky Broadway," a Dyke & the Blazers classic and one of the first hit songs to use the word ...

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,” “Stand!” and ...

Sly and the Family Stone frontman Sly Stone has died, his family said in a statement Monday. He was 82. His family said Stone ...

Sly Stone, the pioneering leader of the funk band bearing his name, Sly and the Family Stone, has died, according to his ...

Born on March 15, 1943, in Denton, Texas, Sylvester Stewart came from a family of devout Christians who took their beliefs ...

I’m pretty much from a metal situation, but at the same time I’m from the funk world too, because the guitarist Eddie Hazel from the band Funkadelic was my mentor. I moved to California from ...