Every time you turn on the radio, you are hearing Sly Stone. That’s not literal. It’s not just a poetic exaggeration, either. Whether your bag is rock or rap or soul or pop, the artists you love ...

(WDHN)–Sly Stone, leader of the Sly and the Family Stone died today at the age of 82. The rock, funk, and soul music pioneer broke barriers when he formed the racially mixed- male and female band in ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. He shifted the dial on pop culture: Sly Stone (third from left) and the Family Stone in 1970 - Redferns Sly Stone has died, aged ...

It’s hard to imagine the course pop music might have taken in the psychedelic ’60s had Sylvester Stewart not emerged at that pivotal moment as the leader of Sly and the Family Stone, a racially ...

In the fall of 1971, Sly and the Family Stone’s “There’s a Riot Goin’ On” landed like a quiet revolution. After two years of silence following the band’s mainstream success, fans expected more ...

It was Sly Stone’s mission to alter the pathways in our brains. His vision was of soulful, transcendental music that could lead us into new dimensions — not just those colorful, kaleidoscopic ...

Questlove is remembering the late great, Sly Stone. In a lengthy and emotional Instagram post, the musician — who directed the documentary Sly Lives! (aka the Burden of Black Genius), about Stone’s ...

The influential musician, who died on Monday at 82, forged harmony — musical and otherwise — that he wasn’t able to hold together on his own. By Wesley Morris “Landscape” is just one of those words.

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. The ...

Few artists left so large an imprint on music history in so short a burst of activity as Sly Stone, who died Monday at 82. At his creative peak as the mastermind of Sly and the Family Stone, the ...

Sly Stone died last month at the age of 82. Sly founded and sang with the funk act Sly and the Family Stone, one of the biggest and most consequential funk bands in the history of modern music. If you ...

On July 15, 2025, Living Color‘s Vernon Reid will pay tribute to Sly Stone at City Winery in New York City with a wine and music pairing commemorating the music of Sly and the Family Stone. Sly & the ...