TLDR: Sly Stone turned isolation into innovation, creating a sound that shaped generations of music-makers and helped ...

Following Sly Stone’s passing, Sly and the Family Stone return to Billboard’s R&B Digital Song Sales chart with five tracks, ...

July 2025’s new music releases include albums from the resurgent Styx, the reuniting Alice Cooper group and the remastered ...

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 ...

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

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

Sly and the Family Stone released 10 studio albums between 1967 and 1982, with many songs injected with passionate social consciousness and others existing as blissful foot-stompers. The first No. 1 ...

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He’ll be remembered as an artist who changed the way people make and listen to music, and who did that twice. Sly was born ...

A timeline of Sly Stone’s career in 10 essential songs. Sly Stone, center, performs with Freddie Stone, left, and Larry Graham of Sly and the Family Stone in 1969. (CBS via Getty Images) ...