The leader of hip-hop’s first great radical band talks to Sarfraz Manzoor about the ‘fight for peace and love by any means ...

A snippet of music history will hit the shelves on July 18 with the new Sly & The Family Stone album The First Family: Live ...

"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.

The Otis Redding cover appears on the upcoming LP The First Family, which contains the earliest known live recording of the ...

Sly & The Family Stone, photo courtesy of High Moon Records. On June 9, Sly Stone, the fearless innovator behind Sly & The ...

Just a week before Sly Stone‘s death last month, it was announced that the earliest known Sly and The Family Stone recording would be released as a live album titled The First Family: Live at ...

There was an odd symmetry to the near-simultaneous deaths of Sly Stone and Brian Wilson at age 82 last week. “Both of them poets of summer,” Rob Sheffield says in the new episode of Rolling ...

Famous for his hits with Sly and the Family Stone, the abundantly talented musician created infectious and enduring music in the 1960s and 1970s.

Archivist Alec Palao talks about his time spent with the late legend, and how the rare live album The First Family: Live at Winchester Cathedral 1967 came together ...

Stone’s band was multiracial. It was composed of both men and women. In his style, Sly Stone communicated that every individual contains multitudes. And all of them are worthy of the spotlight.

Sly Stone was a musical alchemist, combining soul, funk, and psychedelic rock with elements of gospel, jazz, and Latin music to create the new sound of the 1960s. With his prodigious Afro and ...