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

June 2025 will be remembered for what it took away: two of American music's most visionary architects, Brian Wilson and Sly Stone. Wallace Stevens once wrote, "The pure products of America go crazy." ...

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 ...

Did Sly Stone and Brian Wilson live lives of tragedy or triumph? It's hard to say now. One suspects it will become easier with the passage of time, when only the work remains.

Did Sly Stone and Brian Wilson live lives of tragedy or triumph? It's hard to say now. One suspects it will become easier with the passage of time, when only the work remains.

The twin passings of Sly Stone and Brian Wilson this week brought that into sharp relief.Both were musical geniuses who paid a high price for their gifts. They burned bright, with art they created at ...

FILE - Rock star Sylvester "Sly" Stone of Sly and the Family Stone appears in April 1972. (AP Photo, File) FILE - Musician Brian Wilson poses for a portrait at his home in Los Angeles on July 28 ...