Two of the greatest rock bands of all time are the subjects of new documentaries which take very different approaches into ...

BURBANK, Wash. - A music documentary exploring the 1969 Harlem Cultural Festival will be screened at the Burbank Library, ...

Questlove’s latest documentary explores the rise and fall of Sly Stone and the challenges of being a Black artist.

His latest triumph, "SLY LIVES! (aka The Burden of Black Genius)," reunites him with collaborator Questlove to explore not just the meteoric rise of Sly ...

For decades, Sly had been one of music’s great cautionary tales. In the late 1960s and early ’70s, Sly and his band, the ...

But one performance in the documentary about 1969's Harlem Cultural Festival was singularly captivating: that of multiracial ...

I didn’t think it was right to have it out there in the world like that, where it could appear suddenly and do him harm” ...

Ahmir "Questlove" Thompson says that telling Sly Stone's story with empathy was a way to open a conversation about Black ...

The musician and documentary filmmaker Questlove says that music Sly Stone created in the 1960s and 1970s laid the ... No. 1 songs that he didn’t intend on catching on. On the 1969 song ‘Stand!’ with ...

Midway through Black History Month, it’s worth noting the relative brevity of Black film history—the very first major-studio feature to be directed by an African-American didn’t come along until 1969, ...

In our latest top ten songs article, we salute Nine Inch Nail with ten of their greatest songs, which have influenced many newer artists who have echoed their style. If you are a Nine Inch Nail fan, ...

Out of all of the Bay Area’s musician geniuses, there may be none more mercurial than Sly Stone. Writer of such hits as “Everyday People” and “Dance to the Music,” his band Sly & the ...