A snippet of music history will hit the shelves on July 18 with the new Sly & The Family Stone album The First Family: Live ...

The Otis Redding cover appears on the upcoming LP The First Family, which contains the earliest known live recording of the ...

Sly & The Family Stone, photo courtesy of High Moon Records. On June 9, Sly Stone, the fearless innovator behind Sly & The ...

We're joined by music historian and professor Rickey Vincent to talk about the legacy of Sly Stone. He talks to us about what made the funk icon so special and why there'll never be another like Sly ...

The post Sly Stone, Pioneering Bandleader and Funk Virtuoso, Dead at 82 appeared first on Consequence. Sly Stone, the virtuosic performer and pioneering bandleader of Sly and the Family Stone, has ...

Revolutionary funk musician Sly Stone, whose Sly and the Family Stone redefined popular music in the late 1960s and early ‘70s, has passed away at age 82. Born Sylvester Stewart, Sly Stone had ...

I kept it going,” Mr. Stone wrote in his 2023 memoir, co-authored with music journalist Ben Greenman, “Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin),” the song title of another Sly and the Family ...

Today, millions of musicians record and splice tracks from their bedrooms, closets and garages. Half a century ago, the funk ...

Sly and the Family Stone frontman Sly Stone has died, his family said in a statement Monday. He was 82. His family said Stone, whose real name was Sylvester Stewart, had chronic obstructive pulmonary ...

Queen Latifah has hailed Sly Stone as a “genius.” The tribute comes as the music world mourns the loss of one of funk’s most influential pioneers, whose impact on modern music cannot be ...

With Sly & the Family Stone, Nile Rodgers said that the late Sly Stone “changed music.” Redferns. Another legendary producer, Jimmy Jam, recalled sampling Sly & the Family Stone’s 1970 chart ...

Sly Stone, whose band Sly and the Family Stone electrified Woodstock audiences and introduced a genre-fusing brand of psychedelic funk with hits such as “Family Affair” and “Everyday People ...