The world lost a music icon on Monday, June 9, with the passing of Sly Stone, frontman of Sly and the Family Stone, at his home in Los Angeles. The 82-year-old musician, who showed an interest in ...

Sly Stone, musician and frontman of Sly and the Family Stone, died Monday at age 82 after battling lung disease. According to a statement posted by his family on social media, Stone had long ...

Sly & The Family Stone ’s earliest days as a live band are finally on the record via today’s release of The First Family: ...

Rickey Vincent is a music historian who's made a career out of studying funk and soul music – including the work of Sly Stone. Rickey teaches at UC Berkeley and he's also a DJ on KPFA up in the ...

As a Bay Area DJ, Sly Stone slipped Bob Dylan and the Beatles into R&B playlists, foreshadowing the genre-blurring of his own music. “He was always trying to mix up boundaries,” says Sheffield.

Feb. 1975 Sylvester “Sly Stone” Stewart is remembered worldwide as the front man of Sly and the Family Stone. Shown here, Sly Stone performing at the American Music Awards special in 1975.

Stone changed R&B, soul and rock music forever (while helping to invent funk along the way) with a pop sensibility that few artists have ever even dreamed of.

Sly Stone Sly Stone, the energetic frontman of Sly and the Family Stone, revolutionized late 1960s music culture through his exciting sound, which fused funk, rock, and soul. Stone had an ...

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.

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

Sly Stone Born Sylvester Stewart in 1943, he became "Sly" when a classmate misspelled his first name on the chalkboard. A gifted musician, by four he was singing on stage.

Sly Stone Born Sylvester Stewart in 1943, he became "Sly" when a classmate misspelled his first name on the chalkboard. A gifted musician, by four he was singing on stage.