News

Melodie de Nelson’ on Big Stir Records is a pop anthology of Nelson Bragg’s 21st century recordings plus a new bouncy opening ...
The Otis Redding cover appears on the upcoming LP The First Family, which contains the earliest known live recording of the ...
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 Stone, the multitalented musician whose psychedelia-laced funk enraptured Woodstock Nation in the late '60s and early '70s, has died. He was 82.
Sly & The Family Stone, photo courtesy of High Moon Records. On June 9, Sly Stone, the fearless innovator behind Sly & The ...
We're joined by music historian and professor Rickey Vincent to talk about the legacy of Sly Stone. He talks to us about what made the funk icon so special and why there'll never be another like Sly ...
This week's episode of the Crunkadelic Funk Show was another edition of Unexpected Covers! Featured covers from Brittany Howard, Dolly Parton, The Robert Glasper Experiment, Aaliyah, D'Angelo, Jazmine ...
Sly Stone, the funk music pioneer and frontman of Sly and the Family Stone, has died at the age of 82, his manager, Arlene Hirschkowitz, confirmed to CBS News. Stone died peacefully after a prolonged ...
The dystopian scene was a far cry from a Sly concert the year before: Woodstock in ‘69, where the band, operating at the peak ...
Musician and Oscar-winning director Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson on his new film for Hulu, “SLY LIVES! (aka The Burden of Black Genius),” which details the rise and fall of the enigmatic Sly Stone.
Sly & The Family Stone's "Family Affair" saw a splintering band reach the highest heights of pop music one last time.
Sly and the Family Stone frontman Sly Stone has died, his family said in a statement Monday. He was 82. His family said Stone, whose real name was Sylvester Stewart, had chronic obstructive pulmonary ...