Melodie de Nelson’ on Big Stir Records is a pop anthology of Nelson Bragg’s 21st century recordings plus a new bouncy opening ...

We lost several noteworthy singers recently such as Brian Wilson, Sly Stone, Roberta Flack and Rick Derringer. Ironically, these singers were around the same age. Also, we lost Peter Yarrow of the ...

Ahead of a gig at the Hollywood Bowl on Sunday, the 80-year-old singer and songwriter looks back at some of his signature ...

June saw the loss of several influential figures in music, sports, and beyond. Brian Wilson was the creative force behind The ...

In Memoriam June 2025: Brian Wilson, Sly Stone, Mick Ralphs, more originally appeared on Goldmine. June 2025’s music losses include Brian Wilson, Sly Stone, Mott the Hoople/Bad Company’s Mick Ralphs, ...

From Eddie Cochran’s “Summertime Blues” to Sly and the Family Stone’s “Hot Fun in the Summertime” to Harry Styles’ ...

Summer began 84 million years ago, when the earth’s axis tilted twelve degrees. Before that, there were no seasons. We don’t ...

Famous for his hits with Sly and the Family Stone, the abundantly talented musician created infectious and enduring music in the 1960s and 1970s.

There was an odd symmetry to the near-simultaneous deaths of Sly Stone and Brian Wilson at age 82 last week. “Both of them poets of summer,” Rob Sheffield says in the new episode of Rolling ...

There was an odd symmetry to the near-simultaneous deaths of Sly Stone and Brian Wilson at age 82 last week. “Both of them poets of summer,” Rob Sheffield says in the new episode of Rolling ...

Indeed, Brian Wilson was the Beach Boys ... Of course, there was another America even then—as the recent death of another visionary, Sly Stone, serves to remind us. (Stone was also 82, make of that ...

"Sunday Morning" looks back at the legacies of two musical giants – the beating hearts of Sly and the Family Stone and the Beach Boys.