NTS aired an episode dedicated to the music of Sly Stone on 14 July 2025. Sly Stone has been played on NTS over 20 times, featured on 19 episodes and was first played on 9 December 2014.

Sly Stone (born Sylvester Stewart, 15 March 1943, in Denton, Texas; died 9 June, 2025) was an American musician, songwriter, and record producer, most famous for his role as frontman for Sly & the Family Stone, a band which played a critical role in the development of soul, funk and psychedelia in the 1960s and 1970s. Sly & the Family Stone was started in Vallejo, California and eventually had artists from around the San Francisco Bay Area.