Billy Bass, the founding bassist for Parliament – Funkadelic whose real name was William Nelson, Jr., died on Saturday. The Facebook account for that group’s frontman, George Clinton, announced the ...

George Clinton, while working as a barber, recruited him. Mr. Nelson went on to name the group and, with his bandmates, to be ...

Lamar led the nominations that evening with nine, and he and SZA emerged triumphant that night in the record of the year ...

The rapper-singer delivered quite the theatrical mash-up of his hit songs “Thought I Was Dead,” “Like Him” and “Sugar On My ...

Buena Vista Social Club, the Havana-set Broadway musical inspired by the 1997 album, added another laurel to its long credits: a Grammy Award.

At the 2026 Grammys, Tyler, the Creator performed Chromakopia's "Thought I Was Dead" and Don't Tap the Glass' "Sugar on my ...

A video recently posted to TikTok shows Florida teen Anna Kepner dancing on a cruise ship days before she was found dead aboard it.

Sly Dunbar, the legendary Jamaican drummer who played on countless hits with his longtime partner Robbie Shakespeare, has ...

strong>Chris Benchetler, the art-world’s favorite pro skier and the ski-world’s favorite Deadhead, is back with Mountains of the Moon. His new film, which he calls his “opus”, shows how the Grateful ...

Like any classic rock band, the Grateful Dead had no shortage of well-loved songs making up their decades-long discography, including such fabled hits as "Truckin'", "Ripple", "Touch of Grey" and so ...

One of Bob Weir's best songs -- for any of his musical concerns -- was "The Music Never Stopped" from the Grateful Dead's Blues for Allah album. But back in 2009, Weir -- who died this weekend at the ...

This story was featured in The Must Read, a newsletter in which our editors recommend one can’t-miss story every weekday. Sign up here to get it in your inbox. The instrumental theme of “Playing in ...