"In terms of impact and the kind of shift they created, there isn’t a greater American band," said Vernon Reid of Sly and the Family Stone.

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

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

Sly Stone, the multitalented musician whose psychedelia-laced funk enraptured Woodstock Nation in the late '60s and early '70s, has died. He was 82.

Sly Stone, the funk music pioneer and frontman of Sly and the Family Stone, has died at the age of 82, his manager, Arlene Hirschkowitz, confirmed to CBS News. Stone died peacefully after a prolonged ...

Melodie de Nelson’ on Big Stir Records is a pop anthology of Nelson Bragg’s 21st century recordings plus a new bouncy opening ...

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

The dystopian scene was a far cry from a Sly concert the year before: Woodstock in ‘69, where the band, operating at the peak ...

Sly Stone of Sly and the Family Stone died Monday (June 9) at age 82, and the music community is grieving the groundbreaking funk pioneer. Questlove, who directed the new documentary Sly Lives (aka ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Rock star Sylvester “Sly” Stone of Sly and the ...

Sly & The Family Stone's "Family Affair" saw a splintering band reach the highest heights of pop music one last time.

Sly Stone, leader of funk revolutionaries Sly and the Family Stone, dies at 82 Formed in 1966-67, Sly and the Family Stone was the first major group to include Black and white men and women, and ...