"In terms of impact and the kind of shift they created, there isn’t a greater American band," said Vernon Reid of Sly and the Family Stone.

One thing that Americans across the political spectrum could agree on is that Joey Chestnut is the greatest hot dog eater of all time. Chestnut won his 17th Yellow Mustard ...

Recorded at 15 different studios over a 10-year period at a cost exceeding $13 million Chinese Democracy is the most expensive rock album ever made, which just goes to show that money can’t buy you ...

Members of Yes, King Crimson, Gentle Giant, and later-generation musicians are among 30 artists who choose their favourite performances to mark a decade since the bass powerhouse’s death ...

Sly & The Family Sone was one of the first self-contained, multi-gender, interracial, genre-fluid bands to ever top the ...

The Otis Redding cover appears on the upcoming LP The First Family, which contains the earliest known live recording of the ...

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

There was an odd symmetry to the near-simultaneous deaths of Sly Stone and Brian Wilson at age 82 last week. “Both of them poets of summer,” Rob Sheffield says in the new episode of Rolling ...

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 ...

Between 1968 and 1973 Sly Stone, who has died aged 82, changed the direction of African-American popular music not once but twice. Initially promoting a utopian vision of racial and sexual unity ...

There was an odd symmetry to the near-simultaneous deaths of Sly Stone and Brian Wilson at age 82 last week. “Both of them poets of summer,” Rob Sheffield says in the new episode of Rolling ...