"In terms of impact and the kind of shift they created, there isn’t a greater American band," said Vernon Reid of Sly and the Family Stone.

Some cool folks are celebrating milestone birthdays in July, turning 30, 40, 50, 80 and Ringo Starr who just turned 85!

Post Malone took an unexpected fall from the stage during a recent stop on his current Big Ass Stadium Tour. The incident, ...

This Vintage Pop Stardom episode of the Greatest Pop Stars podcast focuses on Sly & the Family Stone's 1969, one of the all-time great pop star years.

A ll of Sly & The Family Stone ’s top 10 hits on the Billboard Hot 100 songs chart return to Billboard ’s rankings following the death of the group’s leader, Sly Stone, on June 9.

From Snoop Dogg to LL Cool J, these are some of the best Sly Stone samples in hip-hop history.

Sly Stone was such a trailblazer that I worried that focusing too much on his achievements might distract from the important message about mental health we aimed to highlight in the Sly Lives! doc.

At the center of it all was front man Sly Stone. Long before the home studio became an industry norm, Stone, who died on June 9, 2025, turned the studio into both a sanctuary and an instrument.

His songs, for generations of listeners, provided community, solace, and a sense of understanding. Sly Stone, 1969. If you want to see my aunt Pam stop what she’s doing and dance, play Sly and ...

Sly Stone and Brian Wilson were two genuine visionaries who gave us so much, suffered so much, and both retreated from the outside world for long stretches of time, burrowing inside themselves, as ...

With Sly Stone at the helm as the chief songwriter and musical maestro, the band could change up their approach from song to song without losing any of their commercial appeal.

That’s because Sly Stone created music without boundaries or regard for the constraints of genre. It was Black music, because Sly was Black, and that’s the only kind of music we can make.