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 ...

LOS ANGELES — Sly Stone's hit-making era lasted all of six years — from the end of 1967 to the end of 1973 — but the music he made over ...

The influence of Sly & the Family Stone’s sound is so vast, it’s hard to measure. It’s in music from Miles Davis and Herbie Hancock, Talking Heads and Prince, and many more: Public Enemy ...

Funk, rock and soul maverick Sly Stone died at 82 on Monday (June 9). According to a statement from his family, the Rock and Roll Hall of Famer's passing came after "a prolonged battle with COPD ...

Sly Stone was more than a hitmaker—he was a prophet of rhythm, a master of contradiction, and a pioneer of what music could be when it ignored the rules. These seven songs prove that even beyond ...

5 great Sly and the Family Stone songs in honor of Sly Stone's death. Cory Woodroof. For The Win. One of the true pioneers of funk and soul music has sadly died.

Sample: Sly And The Family Stone — “Sing A Simple Song” The N.W.A kingpin needed a hard beat like this to shit-talk over. WC And The Maad Circle — “Out On A Furlough” (1991) ...

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

That’s because Sly and the Family Stone’s best songs sound as fresh as the day they were released, not to mention that his music has been sampled almost more than any other artist of the last ...

Sly and the Family Stone’s last great song, “If You Want Me to Stay,” has another of those in-the-bones bass lines and one of Sly’s rawest vocal performances (the way he sings “get this ...