Sly and the Family Stone’s “Everyday People” debuts at No. 7 on Billboard’s R&B Digital Song Sales chart, thanks to renewed ...

During a Q&A following a screening of the documentary 'SLY LIVES! (aka The Burden of Black Genius)', the producer explained why he and director Questlove decided it wouldn’t be “empathetic” to ...

For decades, Sly had been one of music’s great cautionary tales. In the late 1960s and early ’70s, Sly and his band, the Family Stone, effectively ruled over American popular music, but by the middle ...

As promised last week, this week's look at the hits of the 1970s that did not reach top-10 status will concentrate solely on ...

Show business is never short of tragic tales, but few come as poignant as the fall of Sylvester Stewart, aka Sly Stone ... salting the well-played greatest hits with rarities, unheard demos ...

In “Sly Lives!” and “Becoming Led Zeppelin,” the divergent expectations faced by White and Black musical artists become ...

that Sly & the Family Stone and Led Zeppelin —±are the two greatest rock bands of all time. (Prince might have, for example.) Both are the subject of strong new documentaries; each film deals ...

"This is a movie about Sly Stone," he tells UCR, "but it's also about the burden that comes with success for Black artists in America." 50 Years Ago: Sly and Family Stone Splinter on 'Family ...