Of paradigm-shifting legends who’ve made recent transitions, the epitaph following the death of Sylvester Stewart/Sly Stone, is inarguably the most elusive and perplexing. One of the undisputed ...

Sylvester Stewart — known to most of the world as Sly Stone, who passed away at 82 on Monday — was one of the most important musicians not only of the rock-soul era — because his music combined both, ...

In the years since the apex of Sly & The Family Stone, his records have been sampled over 800 times, with everyone from A Tribe Called Quest to Kendrick Lamar wielding fragments of his imagination.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Sly and the Family Stone performing at the Winchester Cathedral, 1967: Cynthia Robinson, Jerry Martini, Freddie Stone, and Larry ...

Each week, SPIN digs into the catalogs of great artists and highlights songs you might not know for our Deep Cut Friday ...

Original Sly and the Family Stone founding members Jerry Martini and Greg Errico, along with Sly Stone and Cynthia Robinson’s daughter, Phunne Stone, kicked off the Everyday People tour in Las Vegas ...

Producer Michael Nash wanted to do something special to celebrate the 10th anniversary of Sound Summit, his annual rock festival on Mount Tamalpais. His idea was to use top Bay Area musicians to pay ...

At this point, the band had not yet signed with Epic Records. The release of their debut album A Whole New Thing was just-over seven months away. "Dance to the Music" would – in its second wind, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. While screening the documentary “Sly Lives!,” producer Joseph Patel told Variety’s senior entertainment writer Angelique Jackson ...