Black Music Month, founded in 1979 by Dyana Williams, Kenny Gamble, and Ed Wright, continues to inspire in 2025. This year, we honor the legacy of Sly Stone and reflect on how African American ...

The music of Sly and the Family Stone took off like a rocket in the late 60’s and early 70’s. And little as it’s known, it all started right here in North Texas. Sly Stone Dies Aged 82 ...

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 ...

The dystopian scene was a far cry from a Sly concert the year before: Woodstock in ‘69, where the band, operating at the peak ...

Sly Stone, the visionary frontman of Sly and the Family Stone, died at age 82 on June 9, 2025, after a groundbreaking career that revolutionized popular music with its blend of funk, soul, rock ...

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.

The Family Stone was an integrated world — Black and white, men and women — and the music they created was a potent mixture of rock, soul and funk. It made you move, it made you think.

We lost two music luminaries this past week. Sly Stone and Brian Wilson died two days apart, both 82 years old, geniuses of vastly different musical persuasions whose periods of greatest ...

Sly Stone died last month at the age of 82. Sly founded and sang with the funk act Sly and the Family Stone, one of the biggest and most consequential funk bands in the history of modern music. If you ...

The Family Stone was an integrated world — Black and white, men and women — and the music they created was a potent mixture of rock, soul and funk. It made you move, it made you think.