Questlove directs Sly Lives! (aka The Burden of Black Genius), a doc about Sly Stone that finds wider import in what it meant ...

Continuing our salute to the legendary Sly Stone this week, for today’s Tuesday’s Gone, we’re turning the clock all the way ...

Questlove talks about his new movie 'Sly Lives!,' new music from D'Angelo, and much more in our new interview.

Sly and the Family Stone’s mix of Black and white musicians and women and men not only felt new but radical, particularly considering the social turmoil of the 1960s. The utopian inclusiveness of hit ...

Mornings come early, but the Morning Joe crew knows how to start the day right. Set to “Dance to the Music” by Sly and the ...

Sly Stone's daughter, Phunne Stone, recalled what it was like growing up with the funk artist in a new documentary titled "Sly Lives! (aka the Burden of Black Genius)." ...

Music historian and documentarian Questlove outlines subversive messages in Sly Stone and Michael Jackson hits you probably missed.

The film focuses on Sly Stone, a funk musician who headed up Sly & the Family Stone in the 1960s and 1970s. The group’s hits, including “Everyday People,” “Dance to the Music” and “Family Affair,” had ...

In “Sly Lives!” and “Becoming Led Zeppelin,” the divergent expectations faced by White and Black musical artists become apparent.

Sly Stone wasn’t interviewed for his own documentary, and the creators of the film have revealed why. During a Q&A following a screening of SLY LIVES! (aka The Burden of Black Genius), the ...

Credit: Lionel Hahn/Getty Images Questlove defends the “audacity” Maria Shriver showed — in an old interview that’s central to his film — by trying to get Sly Stone to acknowledge he ...

Stone’s legacy is different. In the late 1960s and early ’70s, the West Coast polymath synthesized acid rock and funk through his multiracial, mixed-gender group Sly and the Family Stone ...