- Vernon Reid on Why Sly and the Family Stone Were the Greatest American Band Rolling Stone
- Sly Stone and the Sound of an America That Couldn’t Last The New York Times
- Sly Stone Didn’t Just Change Popular Music. He Changed It Twice. Slate Magazine
- ‘People were getting ready to tear up the hall’: Fan recalls Sly Stone’s late arrival to DC show WTOP
- Sly Stone, visionary funk frontman of the Family Stone, has died at age 82 NPR