Sly & the Family Stone
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Sheila E. Details New Political Covers LP With Ringo Starr, Fred Stone
Legendary percussionist made 'ICONIC,' a collection of music's great social anthems, out of mourning for Prince, anger after 2016 election
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Hear Sly and the Family Stone 'Dance to the Music' at 1968 Show
Roots guitarist Kirk Franklin says the track proves the group was "a force of nature"
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'Sons of Anarchy' Covers 'Everyday People,' 'Running Blues'
Biker drama taps into Sly and the Family Stone, offers up an original
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Higher!
A fusionist from the get-go, with an outsize, mixed-race-and-gender band, Sly Stone was less interested in genre blurring than in the hot glory of multiple styles played simultaneously. Check his 1964 solo jam "Scat Swim," a surf-pop instrumental with raw blues licks and jazzbo vocalese. It's a highlight of this four-CD box, the richest overview […]
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Sly and the Family Stone Dust Off 'What's That Got to Do With Me'
Funk group unveil old recording of Jim and Jean track
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Rob Sheffield's Coolest Summer Jams
Sweat to Rob's playlist of summer songs, from "Summertime Blues" to "Call Me Maybe"
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I'm Back! Family & Friends
A new Sly Stone album! Well, kinda. His first new release since 1982 is basically a Sly Plays Sly tribute album, in which the reclusive funk genius pairs up with classic-rock "friends" (Ray Manzarek, Ann Wilson) to rerecord his greatest hits. The results are spunky, if unnecessary: Why bother with Sly and Jeff Beck's remake […]
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Sly Stone Pleads Not Guilty to Cocaine Charge
Funk legend insists he did not own the drugs found in his clothing
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Woodstock Experience
If it had all been sun-shine and clockwork, with a tidy profit on the morning after, no one would have said another word. Instead, the Woodstock Music & Art Fair, held August 15th to 17th, 1969, near Bethel, New York — a refugee-camp experience officially declared a state disaster area on the second day — […]
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Different Strokes By Different Folks
It's been years since the last truly memorable tribute album; most listeners have become so jaded about them that it would take an extraordinary effort to pull one off. The people behind Different Strokes by Different Folks certainly made an effort: Various permutations of rappers, rockers and neo-soulsters were invited to rework the original Sly […]
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