Mark Ronson’s “Uptown Funk” may sound effortlessly fun, but its creation was anything but. Built on influences from the ...

AUGUSTA, Ga. (WRDW/WAGT) - The invasive Asian needle ant – possibly a deadly threat for those allergic to bug bites – is spreading quickly across Georgia and South Carolina. The stings ...

Washington (AFP) – Funk master and innovator Sly Stone, whose music drove a civil rights-inflected soul explosion in the 1960s, sparking influential albums but also a slide into drug addiction ...

The music was a blowout of frantic horns, rapid-fire guitar and locomotive rhythms, a melting pot of jazz, psychedelic rock, doo-wop, soul and the early grooves of funk. Sly’s time on top was ...

Sly Stone, the influential but enigmatic funk-rock star whose soulful, socially conscious recordings altered the course of popular music before he abruptly retreated from the spotlight and became ...

Sly Stone, the remarkable, eccentric frontman, singer, songwriter and producer of his family group, Sly & the Family Stone, died in Los Angeles on Monday, June 9. The musical icon had been battling ...

Sly and the Family Stone is considered rock’s first group to incorporate the sounds of funk, soul, R&B, rock and psychedelic music. “James Brown may have invented funk, but Sly Stone perfected ...