Grunge shifted pop culture in the 1990s, but these funk rock bands were equally crucial to the rise of alternative music.

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The Gazette offers audio versions of articles using Instaread. Some words may be mispronounced. For a quarter century, a band of 5,000-year-old, bandage-wrapped undead have prowled America, with their ...

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Sly Stone, the frontman of the revolutionary band Sly and the Family Stone, has died following several health issues. He was 82. “It is with profound sadness that we announce the passing of our ...

Stone, a Grammy winner whose pioneering funk-rock group Sly and the Family Stone produced groundbreaking albums and singles has been battling COPD. Musician Sly Stone has died aged 82. He was a ...

‘90s Funk-Rock Icon Pays Tribute to Late Legends for ‘Changing My Life’ in Emotional Video originally appeared on Parade. Flea is among the musicians mourning the loss of Brian Wilson and Sly Stone, ...

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, has died, his family said ...

Considering the clanging, anxious alternative-rock attack that the trio White Denim applies to an R&B groove, it’s surprising to learn that the songs have their origins on acoustic guitar. “I spend a ...

Funk music pioneer Sly Stone has died "after a prolonged battle with COPD and other underlying health issues," his family said Monday. (Martial Trezzini / Keystone / Associated Press) Sly Stone, a ...

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 ...