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Fans of Sly and the Family Stone, be the first in America to experience Spotify! Spotify is currently available in the U.S. by invitation only, but you are one of the lucky few to get access. All you need to do to create your free Spotify account is follow this VIP invitation link from Legacy Recordings.

Once you’ve created your free Spotify account, you can listen to your favorite artists and add them to your personal playlists. We hope you enjoy!

Spotify is the award-winning music platform that gives you on-demand access to over 15 million tracks in high-quality audio, wherever you go. Whether you’re searching for the hottest new releases or hits from the past, your favorite tracks are just a click away. If you’d like to learn more, come this way.

Happy Birthday to Sly Stone, who turns 68 years old today! In honor of Sly’s birthday, Pop Market and Archive 1887 are offering a special VIP deal on this limited edition Sly Stone t-shirt. For the VIP discount price of $57.99 $25.99, you’ll get:

• Limited Edition
• Exclusive Offering
• Iconic Art

This high-quality Sly Stone t-shirt is a wearable piece of history which embodies the vibe and spirit of the time. Act fast, supplies are limited!

Today only, the Woodstock Experience bundle featuring Sly & The Family Stone is being offered at the exclusive price of $79.99 $49.99 at PopMarket.com! Experience Woodstock with 5 of the festivals biggest artists – Santana, Janis Joplin, Sly & The Family Stone, Jefferson Airplane and Johnny Winter!

This exclusive bundle features:

• All 5 individually Numbered, Limited Edition Packages
• Each Artist’s Complete Woodstock Performance
• Plus Each Artist’s Classic 1969 Studio Album
• 10 CDs, 5 Commemorative Posters
• Many unreleased tracks and rare photos

These Limited Edition sets come in a collectible, individually numbered slipcase, with two LP-replica mini-jackets and inner sleeves PLUS a 16″ x 20″ artist-specific poster.

Act fast, supplies are limited!

Happy Holidays! Use the promo code ICONSLY4 anytime between now and Tuesday Dec. 21, 2010 at midnight EST to get 25% off all Sly & The Family Stone products at ICON Collectibles. This special offer includes:

• 5 Sly & The Family Stone Fine Art Prints
• 3 Canvas Album Art Covers
• 1 “Stand” 19″ x 19″ Album Art Cover Reproduction

Hurry, supplies are limited! Visit ICON Collectibles today!

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.

This summer celebrates the 40th Anniversary or what Rolling Stone called “the most famous event in rock history”, of the original Woodstock Music & Art Fair. In the summer of 1969, 500,000 people and 32 musical performances came together in Bethel, New York, for an event that sufused our culture, politically and socially, as much as musically.

During that summer, five of those acts, Janis Joplin, Jefferson Airplane, Johnny Winter, Santana, and Sly & the Family Stone, had also recorded albums for Sony Music Entertainment labels, and for the first time next Tuesday, the Woodstock Experience series combines those albums along with the music from their festival performance.

Sly & The Family Stone: The Woodstock Experience (2CD) by Sly & The Family Stone (visit: http://slystonemusic.com)
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Johnny Winter:The Woodstock Experience (2CD) by Johnny Winter
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Janis Joplin:The Woodstock Experience (2 CD) by Janis Joplin
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Jefferson Airplane: The Woodstock Experience by Jefferson Airplane
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Santana: The Woodstock Experience (2 CD) by Santana
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The Woodstock Experience (Limited Edition Box Set)
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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. Additionally, the seven titles will be available as a numbered, limited-edition box set.

A WHOLE NEW THING (released late-1967), with “Trip To Your Heart,” “Run, Run, Run,” five bonus tracks including mono single versions of the B-sides “Let Me Hear It From You” and “Underdog,” plus a previously unreleased instrumental track; with original liner notes by San Francisco-Oakland DJ John Hardy and new liner notes by Bud Scoppa

DANCE TO THE MUSIC (1968), with the Top 10 title hit, six bonus tracks including mono single versions of “Dance To the Music” and “Higher,” and three previously unreleased tracks (including Otis Redding’s “Can’t Turn You Loose”); with original liner notes by Sly and New York DJ Al Gee, and new liner notes by Greg Tate

LIFE (1968), with the title tune single b/w “M’Lady,” four bonus tracks including a mono single version of “Dynamite!” and three previously unreleased tracks; with original liner notes by New York DJ Rosko, and new liner notes by Ben Edmonds

STAND! (1969), breakthrough album with the string of hits “Every­day People,” “Sing A Simple Song,” “Stand!” and “I Want To Take You Higher,” five bonus tracks including three mono single versions and two previously unreleased tracks; with new liner notes by England’s Barney Hoskyns

THERE’S A RIOT GOIN’ ON (1971), landmark #1 album with “Family Affair,” “Runnin’ Away,” and “(You Caught Me) Smilin’,” four bonus tracks including one mono single version and three previously unreleased instrumental tracks; with new liner notes by the San Francisco Chronicle’s Joel Selvin

FRESH (1973), with “If You Want Me To Stay,” “Frisky,” “If It Were Left Up To Me,” and “Que Sera, Sera” (the only cover in Sly’s entire original album catalog), five bonus tracks – all alternate mixes of unreleased album masters; with new liner notes by Touré

SMALL TALK (1974), the group’s final Epic album, with “Time For Livin’” and “Loose Booty,” four previously unreleased bonus tracks including three alternate versions; with original liner notes by Steve Lake of Melody Maker, and new liners by Alex Stimmel