Sly and the Family Stone rip through a rendition of Otis Redding’s “I Can’t Turn You Loose” in the latest offering from the upcoming album, The First Family: Live at Winchester Cathedral 1967. During ...

NEW YORK — Sly Stone, the influential but enigmatic funk-rock star whose soulful, socially conscious recordings altered the course of popular music before he abruptly retreated from the spotlight and ...

Once upon a time, being in a rock band meant, ipso facto, being in a cover band. There are still plenty of cover bands, of course, but the Beatles and especially punk helped move it from being the ...

Of paradigm-shifting legends who’ve made recent transitions, the epitaph following the death of Sylvester Stewart/Sly Stone, is inarguably the most elusive and perplexing. One of the undisputed ...

Sly Stone of Sly and the Family Stone died Monday (June 9) at age 82, and the music community is grieving the groundbreaking funk pioneer. Questlove, who directed the new documentary Sly Lives (aka ...

NEW YORK — 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,” ...

As the pioneering frontman of the legendary group Sly & The Family Stone, Sly Stone, who died Monday (June 9) at age 82, blazed a trail that merged funk and R&B with tastes of rock and soul for an ...

NEW YORK (AP) — 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,” ...