News and Blog

VH1 The Leak Previews Sly & The Family Stone Woodstock Experience

JUNE 25, 2009, 12:18 pm

VH1 and Rhapsody are giving you the opportunity to hear Sly & The Family Stone Woodstock Experience before you can buy it through The Leak. Simply to go VH1 The Leak to preview this great album. And look for all five Woodstock Experience releases on Tuesday, June 30.

Rare Sly Stone Interview on Memorial Day 2009 on KCRW

JUNE 1, 2009, 4:03 pm

Sly Stone was interviewed on KCRW over memorial weekend by Chris Douridas. Very RARE for Sly to do an interview. This is his life and career in his own words! Take a listen... very cool.

Sly Stone box set coming this fall.

John Legend Covers "Dance To The Music"

APRIL 10, 2009, 3:31 pm
John Legend's live concert album from his SRO 2007 world tour features a cover of Sly & The Family Stone's "Dance To The Music". A CD/DVD package of the album is also available exclusively from Target.

Exclusive Sly & The Family Stone Portrait from Icon Collectibles

APRIL 10, 2009, 3:25 pm
ICON-Collectibles, a unique website powered by Sony Music which offers music fans from all over the world an opportunity to bid on extraordinary music memorabilia including museum quality fine art photographs of your favorite artists, is happy to make available six limited edition professionally printed photographs from the historic Sony Music photo archives. Each print is individually created using premium fiber-based paper and includes a Certificate of Authenticity.  Choice of three sizes.  Framing is optional.

Sly Stone in Vanity Fair

APRIL 10, 2009, 3:20 pm
Sly Stone gives his first interview in decades in Vanity Fair. Check out this article here.

Sly The Family Stone Stone Greatest Hits

APRIL 10, 2009, 3:17 pm
The final entry into Legacy's 40th Anniversary Campaign restoring the original Epic releases (1967-1974) culiminates this July with the release of Sly & The Family Stone's Greatest Hits. This all time best selling album contains “HOT FUN IN THE SUMMERTIME” “THANK YOU (FALETTINME BE MICE ELF AGIN” gathers all 10 tracks that made the Pop and R&B singles charts from 1968-70 and also includes 2 album cuts.

Greatest Hits follows up the spring 2007 release of limited edition digipak studio albums and "The Collection" studio albums box set.

Sly & The Family Stone Stone Catalog Re-released!

APRIL 10, 2009, 3:16 pm
For the first (and last!) time, newly remastered, numbered expanded editions will be issued of all seven albums – with multiple (four to seven) bonus tracks on each CD (a total of 33 bonus tracks, 21 of them unreleased) and brand new liner notes written by some of today’s top music journalists. The seven albums were manufactured in a strict limited edition run of custom digipaks, and they will not be re-pressed when they sell out.

Sly & The Family Stone Featured on The Legacy Podcast

APRIL 10, 2009, 3:14 pm
The Legacy Podcast episode #14 features music of Sly & The Family Stone. To listen, visit legacyrecordings.com/coolstuff and subscribe to The Legacy Podcast.

Sly & The Family Stone Re-Issues Featured in the LA Times

APRIL 10, 2009, 3:09 pm
Stone is at work but he keeps it on the sly..."Living among the cool, sweet sloping vineyards here, Sly Stone is at least as secluded now as he was for three decades in the warm, celebrity-dotted Hollywood Hills.

Sly and The Family Stone Celebrate their 40th Anniversary Signing to Epic Records

APRIL 10, 2009, 3:04 pm
“…you also hear Prophet Sly’s seminal formulas for the next forty years of Great Black Pop – meaty, big and bouncy slabs of musical science that would be applied by everybody from psychedelic Temptations producer Norman Whitfield and Isaac Hayes to Philadelphia International, Earth, Wind & Fire, P-Funk, Miles Davis, Prince, Steely Dan, De La Soul, A Tribe Called Quest, Pharcyde, OutKast and the Roots.”