The music world was shocked on Oct. 14 by the death of D’Angelo, 51, the neo-soul innovator whose ambitious, meticulously ...

Sly Stone died last month at the age of 82. Sly founded and sang with the funk act Sly and the Family Stone, one of the biggest and most consequential funk bands in the history of modern music. If you ...

Died: Dec. 24, 2025 (short illness) Musician, guitarist and keyboardist for the Cure from 1990 to 2005 ...

The conversation is a year end reflection on loss, legacy, and Black music history. Host Davey D brings in Professor Rickey Vincent and broadcaster Gerry Dove to honor a long list of artists who ...

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 ...

The glossy silver foil finish inside and outside the covers of The First Family: Live at Winchester Cathedral 1967 to some degree belies the sound quality of the music inside. But the assiduous effort ...

Sylvester Stewart — known to most of the world as Sly Stone, who passed away at 82 on Monday — was one of the most important musicians not only of the rock-soul era — because his music combined both, ...

Every time you turn on the radio, you are hearing Sly Stone. That’s not literal. It’s not just a poetic exaggeration, either. Whether your bag is rock or rap or soul or pop, the artists you love ...

D'Angelo. Brian Wilson. Sly Stone. We lost these greats and so many more in 2025 — singers, producers, conductors and writers whose departures gave us a pang of loss, but whose art still lifts us up.