While his talent shone brightly, Sly faced the pressure of living up to those expectations, creating a constant conflict ...

Saying farewell to Sly Stone, whose avant-funk vision changed the world and influenced generations of musicians ...

F ifty-five summers ago, a riot broke out in Chicago’s Grant Park, where Sly and the Family Stone was booked to play a ...

On the first night of her Las Vegas residency, Joan Jett kept it simple and showed that good rock ’n’ roll never goes out of ...

Funk pioneer Sly Stone, a onetime San Francisco DJ turned pop music innovator and leader of Sly and the Family Stone, has ...

Sly Stone died on Monday, June 9 at the age of 82, his family announced. The musician was best known as the leader of Sly and ...

With his diverse band and a jaw-dropping list of musical inspirations, Family Stone frontman changed the face of modern music ...

You can hear Sly Stone's influence in tracks by 2Pac, A Tribe Called Quest, and De La Soul --sampling classics like "Sing a ...

Sometimes death, as life, brings strange symmetries. Two music revolutionaries, Sly Stone and Brian Wilson, both died within ...

Two of music’s powerful visionaries died this week. The songs they meticulously constructed offered an escape their makers ...

Sly Stone, who created visionary psychedelic rock, soul and pop that helped integrate popular music and captured harsh social ...

Sly Stone, the pioneering leader of the funk band bearing his name, Sly and the Family Stone, has died, according to his ...