I assumed that our new amphitheater would serve as the same magnet for diverse peoples as our annual Richmond Folk Festival, ...

Black Music Month, founded in 1979 by Dyana Williams, Kenny Gamble, and Ed Wright, continues to inspire in 2025. This year, ...

Questlove, director of the Sly Stone documentary Sly Lives, looks back at the late artist's genius and pain in a new essay ...

The legendary producer worshiped Sly Stone long before he became friends with the funk pioneer, who passed away at 82 on Monday.

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

Sly & the Family Stone's second Billboard Hot 100 No. 1 started to take a very different tone from its first, but with ...

Two of music’s powerful visionaries died this week. The songs they meticulously constructed offered an escape their makers ...

Woodstock is often remembered as a rock concert celebrating peace, love and music. But one of the best parts of the original ...

With the death of Sly Stone, Living Colour guitarist Vernon Reid goes deep on the greatness and enduring influence of Stone and his band.

Sometimes the simplest songs convey the deepest truths, as seen in the first of the late Sly Stone and his Family Stone's ...

Sly Stone, the leader of Sly and the Family Stone, died Monday at age 82. The pioneering group was best known for popular ...

Sly Stone, the revolutionary musician and dynamic showman whose Sly and the Family Stone transformed popular music in the 1960s and ’70s and beyond with such hits as “Everyday People,” “Stand!” and ...