Obituary: Sly Stone, funk-rock star who changed the direction of African-American music

Icon of black power and arguably the most influential talent in popular music

‘Burn them all out’: The prejudice bubbling under Ireland’s thin veneer of normality

Radio: Newstalk and RTÉ cover unrest in Ballymena and Los Angeles

Sly Stone, pioneering funk and soul musician, dies aged 82

American songwriter lit up generations of dance floors with his group Sly and the Family Stone

Sly Stone: ‘Life is a record. But where do you drop the needle?’

Funk legend’s memoir excels on music but endless accounts of drug busts get tedious

‘It’s been a wild ride’: funk legend Sly Stone announces memoir

Book will cover Stone's rise to fame, his contribution to funk music and his battle with drugs

Remembering Jimi Hendrix 50 years on: the guitar god and the Irish connection

Dave Tiger Taylor, whose band who toured with Hendrix, remembers his ‘magic’

The Waterboys – Good Luck, Seeker: Mike Scott refuses to rest on former glories

The Waterboys cover both familiar and new ground on their fourteenth studio album

Prince live in Ireland: ‘We gotta go – I got too many hits’

Cork in 1990; Dublin in 2002; and again in 2011, after that no-show in 2008, Prince showed his live game was every note as sharp and groundbreaking as his studio work

Curtis Harding: Soul Power | Album Review

Silk Rhodes: Silk Rhodes

Press play: 20 unmissable online gigs

Want to see James Brown, The Rolling Stones, David Bowie and other megastars in concert for free? Head to YouTube for a trove of live music films

Our Love: Caribou’s Dan Snaith on the new album

The last Caribou record “Swim” put Dan Snaith and friends on top of the festival billing. The new album “Our Love”, he tells Jim Carroll is about reflecting his life now, including playtime with his three year old daughter

No more pagans or goat-slaughtering, the rock festival has become oh so sedate

Glastonbury now carries about as much menace as the Henley Regatta