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 ...

Boom laka laka laka! Boom laka laka laka!” It’s hard to believe that there was a time when such an utterance was unknown to ...

Questlove’s new documentary aims to dissect the forward-looking brilliance of Sly Stone and his band, but mostly it traces their downward arc.

The Elemental Music / Motown reissue series is almost complete. Goldmine continues to highlight these incredibly well-done ...

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 ...

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 SLY LIVES!, Questlove documents the genius of a funk trailblazer — and the pressure Sly felt as a Black artist. "Sly will ...

Yet today’s best music streaming services make the idea of building an MP3 collection look positively Stone Age. Each platform hands users the keys to a million-strong library of on-demand music, ...

Some, but not all, such patients have definite hypercalciuria. To determine whether stone formers might also have exaggerated responses to stimuli known to augment calcium excretion in normal ...