Sly & The Family Stone got the coveted call to be featured performers on The Ed Sullivan Show in December 1968. Following Sly’s invocation, “Don’t ...

The Oscar-winning producer shares how he and Questlove created a powerful tribute capturing the funk icon's genius and legacy before his passing.

Director Ahmir "Questlove" Thompson and Oscar-winning producer Joseph Patel discuss "Sly Lives!" Six New States Now Able to ...

The drummer and record producer discusses his documentary on Sly Stewart of Sly and the Family Stone, exploring the rise, ...

Sly & The Family Sone was one of the first self-contained, multi-gender, interracial, genre-fluid bands to ever top the charts, a progenitor of “funk” whose flamboyant streetwear set a new standard ...

Sly and the Family Stone performing at the Winchester Cathedral. 1967. (L to R) Cynthia Robinson, Jerry Martini, Freddie Stone, Larry Graham. courtesy of Cynthia Robinson ...

We're joined by music historian and professor Rickey Vincent to talk about the legacy of Sly Stone. He talks to us about what made the funk icon so special and why there'll never be another like ...

Sly Stone, a musician and songwriter best known for his work with Sly and the Family Stone, died June 9 at age 82. The cause of his death was chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, as well as ...

Mick Ralphs, founding guitarist and a key songwriter for rock groups popular Bad Company and Mott the Hoople, has died at 81.

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.

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 ...