Famous for his hits with Sly and the Family Stone, the abundantly talented musician created infectious and enduring music in the 1960s and 1970s.

Sly Stone turned solitude into sonic innovation, inspiring generations with home-studio funk and loop-based recording.

Sly Stone passed away on June 9, 2025, at his home in Granada Hills, Los Angeles. He was 82. According to his representatives ...

There are a host of images of Sly Stone in which his onstage style serves as a celebration of the freedom and power that were ...

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.

For decades, the music of Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson and his band, The Roots, has defied the conventions of hip-hop and soul ...

Originally launched in 2002, the Sly Cooper series was a sort of late-stage attempt at giving the PlayStation 2 yet another ...

Sly Stone, legendary funk pioneer and frontman of Sly and the Family Stone, passes away at 82 after battling COPD.

The stars of Paul Andrew Williams’ drama won a joint acting prize at Tribeca for their roles as an elderly woman and the ...

Sampling Sly was like a right of passage for many MCs in the late ’80s and early ’90s. I grew up learning about Sly’s music from the way my favorite rappers re-imagined his tunes. So, it’s only right ...

Stone, an eccentric whose songs of uplift were tempered by darker themes of struggle and disillusionment, had a fall as steep ...

Archivist Alec Palao talks about getting to know Sly Stone when they worked on archival releases including the new 'Live at Winchester Cathedral' ...