The First Family marks the earliest live recording of Sly & the Family Stone, which formed in San Francisco in 1966. The show ...

Like the DJ he is, Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson is highly adept at keeping a lot of things spinning.

The fear didn’t come from outside, from the dark or from some monster in the closet. It came from within. From the air. From ...

This track is arguably the ultimate Sly Stone anthem—a funky, bass-driven declaration of personal freedom, identity, and ...

How’s this for a hot 45? In 1969, Sly and the Family Stone released the song “Stand ... the corner of the sofa,” Patel observed. “There’s a sweetness to him, but there’s also ...

After Elvis Presley, Bob Dylan, John Lennon, and Paul McCartney, a late-1960s American magazine boldly predicted that Sly Stone (born Sylvester Stewart ... who created the iconic cover of There’s A ...

was released before Marvin Gaye’s “What’s Going On,” Sly and the Family Stone’s “There’s a Riot Goin’ On,” or Stevie Wonder’s “Innvervisions,” which are thought of as the ...

In the late 1960s and early ’70s, the West Coast polymath synthesized acid rock and funk through his multiracial, mixed-gender group Sly and the Family Stone ... “There’s a Riot Goin ...

It highlights the legacy of the enigmatic Sly Stone and features musical luminaries like Andre 3000, D'Angelo, and members of Sly and the Family Stone ... cover of 'There's a Riot Going on ...

Led Zeppelin and Sly & the Family Stone, both in 1969 ... The long-fall section—the film’s final third—may have a familiar shape, but there’s a lot here that even a longtime Sly fan ...