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Sly & the Family Stone harnessed all of the disparate musical and social trends of the late '60s, creating a wild, brilliant fusion of soul, rock, R&B, psychedelia, and funk that broke boundaries down without a second thought.

Michael P. He's a one-man powerhouse, melding soul, funk, jazz, honkytonk and rock on many different instruments.

Sa-Ra Creative Partners are a tough bunch to classify. Their debut mixed equal elements of funk, R&B and hip-hop into a glitchy, danceable stew.

All are playing Saturday, July 25: Highly Kind would be the perfect name for a reggae band, but in fact this quartet from Gadsden, Ala.

Stories about Sly Stone usually start with the word "reclusive." Sly Stone sometimes takes the stage at Los Angeles clubs with daughter Novena and her group, BabyStone.

A Mother's Day Soul Jam will take place at The Whiting Saturday beginning at 8 p.m. The show will feature Lenny Williams, former lead vocalist for Tower of Power, who has made several hit recordings as a soloist including "Cause I Love You" and "So Very Hard To Go." Through the years, Williams has worked with several notable artists, like Sly ...

Ben Greenman, an editor at the New Yorker, set out to write a biography of Sly Stone and ended up with a serious novel about an entirely made up funk rock legend.

Ben Greenman's new novel, "Please Step Back," tells the story of Robert Franklin, a gifted black musician who rises from the Boston R&B scene to become a funk-rock superstar and an avatar of change.

Freaking '50s doo-wop and '70s soul straight outta Sly Stone, freestyle pioneer Aceyalone has made the hip-hop album of the year so far.

There are plenty of gritty, explicit songs about jealous, violence-prone lovers and horny-but-clueless boyfriends on the riveting debut album from Black Joe Lewis & the Honeybears , and its fierce, rich amalgam of primal blues, soul, R&B and funk feels simply incendiary.

New York concertgoers are a tough crowd and we hate shitty opening bands, which are almost unavoidable.

In last week's paper, I reviewed The KA1 4l 's new release Soul 4 Gold , a disc that blends a whole mishmash of funk, psychedelic and even stoner rock influences into a disc that, at various points throughout ...

Gifted with the ability to play many instruments, write, produce, arrange, perform, and radiate a million-watt charisma onstage, Sly and his multiracial, gender-diverse group the Family Stone have created a ...

" A wildly flamboyant funk diva with few equals even three decades after her debut , Betty Davis combined the gritty emotional realism of Tina Turner , the futurist fashion sense of David Bowie , and the ...

On Sunday, the seven-person all-star funk collective Lettuce comes to the Snow Barn at Mount Snow for the second concert in Mount Snow's Winter Concert Series.

Caption: Sly Stone George Clinton's birthday celebration at Zune Los Angeles, California .... Funk legends SLY STONE and GEORGE CLINTON wowed music fans at Los Angeles' tiny Little Temple Bar venue on Tuesday ...

From folk singers "Peter, Paul and Ben Vereen," to funk icon George Clinton with Sly Stone, to Latin American Idol Carlos Pena - and Adm.

New England is the soul of America. Massachusetts is the soul of New England. Worcester is the soul of Massachusetts, and without any doubt, the Valves are the soul of Worcester.

During a recent 10-minute conversation with Parliament-Funkadelic visionary George Clinton, the 67-year-old, freaky-styley-haired legend used the word "funk" 13 times.

RADIO 1 DJ Huw Stephens is lined up to launch the Indie Disco at The Rockhouse, Derby, on Friday.