Sly and the Family Stone

Funk Remembrance Soul 

Forever Fresh: Sly Stone Remembered

June 11, 2025June 11, 2025 Kara Tucker 0 Comments Beastie Boys, Cynthia Robinson, Graham Central Station, Greg Errico, Larry Graham, Lil Wayne, RIP, Sly and the Family Stone, Sly Stone, Sylvester Stewart, The Viscaynes

The funk/soul genius died this week at 82

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Funk Soul 

Early Sly & The Family Stone Performance Tapped for Release 

June 8, 2025June 9, 2025 Ron Hart 0 Comments 1967, High Moon Records, reissue, Sly and the Family Stone, Sly Stone, The First Family: Live at Winchester Cathedral 1967

Live at Winchester Cathedral 1967 out July 18

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Funk Soul 

Time for Livin’: Sly and the Family Stone’s Small Talk at 50

July 23, 2024July 23, 2024 Jeremy Shatan 3 Comments 1974, 50th anniversary, Funkadelic, Loose Booty, Sly and the Family Stone, Sly Stone, Small Talk, Time for Livin'

Saluting the most underrated album in the funk great’s catalog

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Funk jazz 

Vein Melter: Herbie Hancock’s Head Hunters at 50

October 25, 2023October 26, 2023 Todd Manning 0 Comments 1973, 2Pac, 50th anniversary, Bennie Maupin, Bill Summers, Chameleon, Columbia Records, Digable Planets, Harvey Mason, Head Hunters, Herbie Hancock, J. Dilla, Miles Davis, Nas, Paul Jackson, Sly and the Family Stone, Vein Melter, Watermelon Man

Reflecting on the groundbreaking jazz-funk odyssey from the visionary keyboardist

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Hard Rock Rock 

Pure and Simple: Joan Jett Turns 65

September 22, 2023September 23, 2023 Jim Sullivan 1 Comment 65th birthday, AC/DC, Blackheart Records, Cherie Currie, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Iggy Pop, J. Geils Band, Joan Jett, Joan Jett and the Blackhearts, Jonathan Richman, Kim Fowley, Paul Cook, Sly and the Family Stone, Steve Jones, The Beach Boys, The Kinks, The Modern Lovers, The Runaways, Tommy James and the Shondells, ZZ Top

Celebrating the career of an iconic rocker on her big birthday

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Funk Instrumental Soul 

War’s Lee Oskar Says Mahalo

September 18, 2023February 19, 2024 j. poet 0 Comments 2023, Dreams We Share, Greg Errico, Harmonica, Hawaii, Lee Oskar, She Said Mahalo, Sly and the Family Stone, war

Catching up with funk’s harmonica master

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Dead Rock 

The Rhythm Devil: Mickey Hart at 80

September 11, 2023 Jim Sullivan 1 Comment 80th birthday, Airto Moriera, Bill Kreutzmann, Bob Weir, Dead, Dead and Company, Europe '72, Flora Purim, Jerry Garcia, Mickey Hart, Phil Lesh, Sly and the Family Stone, The Dead, The Grateful Dead

Reflections on the Grateful Dead drummer’s Apocalypse Now era

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Funk Soul 

Keep On Dancin’: Sly and the Family Stone’s Fresh at 50

June 30, 2023June 30, 2023 Craig Peters 0 Comments 1973, 50th anniversary, Etta James, Fresh, Kermit Ruffin, Larry Graham, Miles Davis, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Sly and the Family Stone, Sly Stone, Victor Wooten

How the band’s sixth LP signified a new phase of funk

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Pop Remembrance Rock Soul 

Simply The Best: Remembering Tina Turner

May 25, 2023February 19, 2024 Jim Sullivan 1 Comment David Bowie, Foreign Affair, Ike and Tina Turner, Ike Turner, Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome, RIP, Rod Stewart, Sly and the Family Stone, The Acid Queen, The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, The Who, Tina Turner, Tommy

Looking back on the career of the Queen of Rock ‘n’ Roll

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Soul 

Spaced Cowboy: Sly Stone at 80

March 15, 2023March 15, 2023 Jim Sullivan 0 Comments 80th birthday, Cynthia Robinson, D'Angelo, Everyday People, Fresh, George Clinton, Joe Perry, Larry Graham, OutKast, Prince, Sly and the Family Stone, Sly Stone, Stand!, Woodstock

Honoring the unorthodox genius of a soul icon

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Funk jazz 

Pictures Are Dead, Man: Miles Davis’ On the Corner Turns 50

October 23, 2022October 24, 2023 Ted Miller 0 Comments 1972, 50th anniversary, Columbia Records, Funkadelic, Helen Butte, Kamasi Washington, Makaya, Miles Davis, On The Corner, Ornette Coleman, Sly and the Family Stone, Stankonia

Honoring an avant-funk masterpiece that’s still ahead of its time

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Folk Funk Rock Soul 

The Long Schlep From Queens to The Catskills

October 16, 2019October 17, 2019 Billy Sternberg 1 Comment Alive and Kicking, Canned Heat, Catskills rock, Concord Hotel, Fillmore East, Livingston Taylor, Sly and the Family Stone, The Grass Roots, Tommy James

A personal look back at the iconic Concord’s rock & roll nights of 1970

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