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The legendary producer worshiped Sly Stone long before he became friends with the funk pioneer, who passed away at 82 on Monday.
You Can’t Understand Black Music Without Sly Stone His songs, for generations of listeners, provided community, solace, and a sense of understanding.
Queens of the Stone Age drop the electric guitars and showcase an unappreciated side of their music in a stunningly unique setting with their new concert movie Alive in the Catacombs. Band leader ...
Sly Stone fused joyful visions of the country with a deep understanding of its worst ills.
Brian Wilson and Sly Stone were musical innovators whose public reputations diverged drastically toward the end of their careers.
Brian Wilson and Sly Stone were two pop music giants whose contributions can’t be overstated.
The founding member of the legendary funk and soul band Sly and the Family Stone passed away on June 9 at age 82.
Hanif Abdurraqib remembers the performer Sly Stone, the lead singer of Sly and the Family Stone, who died at eighty-two.
This Questlove documentary on Hulu proves that the spirit of Sly Stone will never die.
Music Sly Stone Was a Whole New Thing He didn’t just change the music of the 1960s and ’70s. He gave us the way it still sounds today.
Sly Stone and his band synthesised disparate strands of American popular music, tracking the musical and social shifts as the 1960s wore into the 1970s.
Stone changed R&B, soul and rock music forever (while helping to invent funk along the way) with a pop sensibility that few artists have ever even dreamed of.