In the fall of 1971, Sly and the Family Stone’s “There’s a Riot Goin’ On” landed like a quiet revolution. After two years of ...

Sly’s triumphs, peaked over 50 years ago, have long since been obscured by a widely documented hellscape of drugs, wild extravagances, label disputes, haphazard live appearances, the dissolution of ...

Rickey Vincent is a music historian who's made a career out of studying funk and soul music – including the work of Sly Stone. Rickey teaches at UC Berkeley and he's also a DJ on KPFA up in the ...