Very few acts delivered the kind of musical versatility of Sly And The Family Stone. With Sly Stone at the helm as the chief songwriter and musical maestro, the band could change up their approach ...

Sylvester Stewart aka Sly Stone passed away in June but his soulful funky music and desire for world unity resurrected Saturday night inside Bryant Park. Thousands packed the popular NYC space for a ...

The world lost a music icon on Monday, June 9, with the passing of Sly Stone, frontman of Sly and the Family Stone, at his home in Los Angeles. The 82-year-old musician, who showed an interest in ...

"Sly's innovative spirit foreshadowed much of what would come in hip-hop," Questlove writes in a new essay for Rolling Stone - Credit: Ron Pownall/Getty Images Sly Stone’s journey highlights the ...

To follow up his Oscar-winning Summer of Soul, Ahmir "Questlove" Thompson turned his focus on one of the landmark acts ...

Sometimes there are strange symmetries in death, as in life. 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 ...

There are few — if any — American rock bands that have had a more profound impact over time than Sly and the Family Stone. To start with, the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductees served up an impressive ...

Sly Stone, the influential but enigmatic funk-rock star whose soulful, socially conscious recordings altered the course of popular music before he abruptly retreated from the spotlight and became the ...

Sly Stone, the influential, eccentric and preternaturally rhythmic singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and producer whose run of hits in the late 1960s and early ’70s with his band the Family ...

Sometimes there are strange symmetries in death, as in life. 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 ...