You can hear Sly Stone's influence in tracks by 2Pac, A Tribe Called Quest, and De La Soul --sampling classics like "Sing a ...

Long before the home studio became an industry norm, Stone, who died on June 9, 2025, turned the studio into both a sanctuary ...

F ifty-five summers ago, a riot broke out in Chicago’s Grant Park, where Sly and the Family Stone was booked to play a ...

Two of music’s powerful visionaries died this week. The songs they meticulously constructed offered an escape their makers ...

Saying farewell to Sly Stone, whose avant-funk vision changed the world and influenced generations of musicians ...

Sly Stone, the revolutionary musician and dynamic showman whose Sly and the Family Stone transformed popular music in the ...

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

But what they created in their primes served as inspiration for legions of artists to come.

Sly Stone, the pioneering leader of the funk band bearing his name, Sly and the Family Stone, has died, according to his ...

Sly Stone, a onetime SF deejay turned funk innovator and leader of Sly and the Family Stone, sang on and produced an album ...

Sly Stone, the legendary Sixties and Seventies funk singer, songwriter and producer of the band, Sly and the Family Stone, ...

The music pioneer succumbed after a prolonged battle with COPD and other underlying health issues, his family says.