Synopsis: “SLY LIVES! (aka The Burden of Black Genius)” examines the life and legacy of Sly & The Family Stone, the ...

Sly Stone passed away on June 9, 2025, at his home in Granada Hills, Los Angeles. He was 82. According to his representatives ...

One to One: John & Yoko focuses primarily on John Lennon’s life from 1971 to 1973, when he and Yoko Ono moved to New York ...

For decades, the music of Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson and his band, The Roots, has defied the conventions of hip-hop and soul by recording songs that echo a long-lost time. As a music documentary ...

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Filmed over seven years, the documentary showcases the lives of Black and Latino ... with the storied legacy of Dior. Questlove's second documentary offers an intimate exploration of the life and ...

Sly Stone, legendary funk pioneer and frontman of Sly and the Family Stone, passes away at 82 after battling COPD.

In Memoriam Questlove on Sly Stone: ‘His Artistry Came With a Burden’ Questlove, director of the Sly Stone documentary Sly Lives, looks back at the late artist's genius and pain in a new essay ...

Sly & The Family Stone's "Family Affair" saw a splintering band reach the highest heights of pop music one last time.

Watch the trailer for Questlove's acclaimed documentary SLY LIVES! (aka The Burden of Black Genius) Where Brown’s leadership of his group was overt, exemplified by his staccato musical directions in ...

Stone's skills came in creating a musical world that others only dreamed of at the time. The Family Stone was an integrated world — Black and white, men and women — and the music they created was a ...

As pointed out in endless histories of rock and roll, hip-hop, pop, and country (including Questlove’s Sly Stone documentary Sly Lives! [aka The Burden of Black Genius]), when Stone started ...