Besides being a musical genius, the late Sly Stone was a fashion icon. His wardrobe consisted of “a psychedelic stew of ...

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

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

Sly & the Family Stone's second Billboard Hot 100 No. 1 started to take a very different tone from its first, but with equally powerful and funky results.

In the wake of Sly Stone’s death at age 82, Living Colour guitarist Vernon Reid made the case for why Sly and the Family Stone deserve a place at the top of the canon of American bands. Here it ...

The concert took place on Easter morning, March 26, 1967, towards the end of Sly and the Family Stone's residency at the Bay Area music venue Winchester Cathedral (they served as the house band ...

Sly Stone, the revolutionary musician and dynamic showman whose Sly and the Family Stone transformed popular music in the 1960s and ’70s and beyond with such hits as “Everyday People ...

Their next album was supposed to be called The Incredible and Unpredictable Sly & the Family Stone — a sideways reference to Stone’s habit of blowing off gigs. He finally released his masterpiece, ...

When Sly & the Family Stone returned in late 1971, it was with “Family Affair,” an R&B gem that was at once of a piece with the celebratory pop-soul anthems the group had made his name with ...

Sly Stone, an electrifying musician, songwriter and showman whose Sly and the Family Stone transformed popular music in the 1960s and ’70s, has died. He was 82. July 15, 2025 ...