- Vernon Reid on Why Sly and the Family Stone Were the Greatest American Band Rolling Stone
- How the Bay Area Shaped Sly Stone The New York Times
- Column | Sly Stone channeled multitudes; they were all gloriously American The Washington Post
- Sly Stone Didn’t Just Change Popular Music. He Changed It Twice. Slate Magazine
- Sly Stone, visionary funk frontman of the Family Stone, has died at age 82 NPR