The boundary-breaking, fashion-forward leader of Sly & the Family Stone, who has died at age 82, made an indelible impact on ...

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 influence of Sly & the Family Stone’s sound is so vast, it’s hard to measure. It’s in music from Miles Davis and Herbie Hancock, Talking Heads and Prince, and many more: Public Enemy ...

Sly Stone, the legendary bandleader of Sly and the Family Stone, has died at 82. These five songs show the power of his influence. ... the impact he had on music has never dulled.

Stone had a capacity for summing up the zeitgeist of an America in social transition, from collective joy to racial harmony, and from the search for transcendence to the broken idealism in which the ...

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

Sly Stone's biggest songs tell us everything about his impact on modern music and culture. By Dan Condon. Double J. Topic: Arts, Culture and Entertainment ...

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 ...

Questlove directed 2025’s Sly Lives!(aka the Burden of Black Genius), which reexamined Stone’s legacy and focused on how his influence continues to impact popular music today.It included ...

Funk pioneer Sly Stone, ... In the mid-'60s, just as the San Francisco music scene was exploding with global impact, Stone served both as a record producer and disc jockey at KSOL, ...