Rodney Brown, drummer on 1967’s “Funky Broadway,” a Dyke & the Blazers classic and one of the first hit songs to use a ...

Gov't Mule guitarist Warren Haynes took to social media to pay tribute to the groundbreaking musical legacy of the late Sly ...

Saying farewell to Sly Stone, whose avant-funk vision changed the world and influenced generations of musicians ...

Born March 15, 1943, in Denton, Texas, Stone helped pioneer the emerging psychedelic soul movement in the 1960s and ‘70s with ...

Sly Stone, the driving force behind Sly and the Family Stone, a multiracial American band whose boiling mix of rock, soul and ...

Funk pioneer Sly Stone, a onetime San Francisco DJ turned pop music innovator and leader of Sly and the Family Stone, has ...

Sylvester Stewart, known as Sly Stone, turned soul, rock and R&B into something kinetic, kaleidoscopic and irreversibly Black ...

Sly Stone, the visionary multi-instrumentalist, singer, and songwriter who led Sly and the Family Stone – in doing so helping ...

Sly Stone and his band synthesised disparate strands of American popular music, tracking the musical and social shifts as the 1960s wore into the 1970s.

The music pioneer succumbed after a prolonged battle with COPD and other underlying health issues, his family says.

Sly Stone, the influential but enigmatic funk-rock star whose soulful, socially conscious recordings altered the course of ...