As a Bay Area DJ, Sly Stone slipped Bob Dylan and the Beatles into R&B playlists, foreshadowing the genre-blurring of his own ...

"Sunday Morning" looks back at the legacies of two musical giants – the beating hearts of Sly and the Family Stone and the ...

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

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

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 ...

But what they created in their primes served as inspiration for legions of artists to come.

It happened this past week ... we learned of the passing of two giants of popular music: Brian Wilson, of the Beach Boys; and Sly Stone, frontman of Sly and the Family Stone. Born Sylvester ...

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 ...

Sampledelia classics like Paul’s Boutique and It Takes a Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back would lose some of their freakiest grooves, which real heads know were transplanted from Sly deep cuts a ...