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

Sly & The Family Stone, photo courtesy of High Moon Records. On June 9, Sly Stone, the fearless innovator behind Sly & The ...

Just a week before Sly Stone‘s death last month, it was announced that the earliest known Sly and The Family Stone recording would be released as a live album titled The First Family: Live at ...

The Sundance Film Festival takes over the snow-covered community of Park City in Utah for 11 days. With a major focus on diversifying event and film programming, festival attendees got a chance to ...

June saw the death of a musician whose talent brought The Beach Boys from a local California band to hitmakers and ...

Synopsis: “SLY LIVES! (aka The Burden of Black Genius)” examines the life and legacy of Sly & The Family Stone, the ...

For decades, the music of Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson and his band, The Roots, has defied the conventions of hip-hop and soul by recording songs that echo a long-lost time. As a music documentary ...

Sample: Sly And The Family Stone — “ Trip To Your Heart ” Don’t call it a comeback: Hip-hop’s first solo superstar reclaims his rap dominance. Beastie Boys — “Shadrach” (1989) ...

Sly Stone was a musical alchemist, combining soul, funk, and psychedelic rock with elements of gospel, jazz, and Latin music to create the new sound of the 1960s. With his prodigious Afro and ...

In the fall of 1971, Sly and the Family Stone’s “There’s a Riot Goin’ On” landed like a quiet revolution. After two years of silence following the band’s ...

In the Summer of Soul doc, when Sly and the Family Stone walk out on the Harlem Cultural Festival stage in their San Francisco street clothes, with a white drummer, and a Black woman playing trumpet, ...

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