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 and the Family Stone gave fans another memorable performance on August 17, 1969 when they took the stage at Woodstock, the legendary outdoor concert in Bethel, New York which featured some of ...

Where were you when you heard the news about Sly Stone's June 9 death from COPD and, according to his family, "other underlying health issues"? I was on my way to a doctor's appointment, and I ...

Sly and his band, the Family Stone, burst onto the national scene in 1968 with the hit single “Dance to the Music,” and through the rest of the 1960s reigned as the most thrilling act in ...

Sly Stone and Brian Wilson died two days apart, both 82 years old, geniuses of vastly different musical persuasions whose periods of greatest flourishing melded into one another.

Cynthia Robinson, a founding member for Sly and the Family Stone who played trumpet, has died after a battle with cancer. The musician’s Facebook page and Billboard confirmed the news Tuesday ...

Sly Stone from the group Sly and the Family Stone performs at the 48th Annual Grammy Awards on Feb. 8, 2006, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill) ...

In “Sly Lives!,” Questlove confronts the life and legacy of Sly Stone, investigates it, holds it up to the light, tears it apart, and puts it back together like the bravura mixmaster he is.

The Family Stone was an integrated world — Black and white, men and women — and the music they created was a potent mixture of rock, soul and funk. It made you move, it made you think.

Sly had top billing in Sly & the Family Stone, and he was the songwriter and producer. But, pointedly, he was not the band’s only lead singer. From the beginning, he chose to share the mic.