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One of the most colorful artists in music history returns with his first new album since 1982. Here Sly Stone revisits some of his biggest hits with a little help from some rock and roll royalty. Some of the special guests on the album include Heart's Ann Wilson, Ray Manzarek from the Doors, Jeff Beck, and Bootsy Collins.

After more than fifteen years, the Roots continue to reinvent themselves and remain one of music's most enduring and forward-thinking groups. Their eleventh album features the single When the People Cheer.

If indeed 'you blows who you is,' as Louis Armstrong once famously said, then Stephen Bruner's bass is a mainline to the soul of a man whose DNA was transcribed from the stars onto staff paper. His Flying Lotus-produced debut, The Golden Age of Apocalypse, offers both stone-cold skill and uncanny astrality, picking up where the pair left off on 2010's Cosmogramma and further distilling the jazz current running through that landmark Lotus release.