June saw the death of a musician whose talent brought The Beach Boys from a local California band to hitmakers and ...

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

"Sunday Morning" looks back at the legacies of two musical giants – the beating hearts of Sly and the Family Stone and the Beach Boys.

Jose Valentino Ruiz, University of Florida (THE CONVERSATION) In the fall of 1971, Sly and the Family Stone ... Music scholar Will Fulton, in his study of Black studio innovation, notes how producers ...

The Family Stone was an integrated world — Black and white ... the ripples of his genius return through hip-hop samples, documentaries and his memoir. Still, none of that replaces the raw beauty of ...

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 ...

"From the moment his music reached me in the early 1970s, it became a part of my soul," 'Sly Lives!' director Questlove also shared on Instagram.

Stone wanted your ears and your eyes. His style paved the way for the fashion of musicians like Prince, Outkast and Beyonce.

There’s no better way to honor and remember this innovative legend than by watching Questlove’s 2025 Sly Stone documentary, Sly Lives! (Aka The Burden of Black Genius), which is now streaming ...

The dystopian scene was a far cry from a Sly concert the year before: Woodstock in ‘69, where the band, operating at the peak ...

As the leader of Sly and the Family Stone, Sly Stone changed the face of popular music in the late ’60s and early ’70s.

Funk pioneer Sly Stone, a onetime San Francisco DJ turned pop music innovator and leader of Sly and the Family Stone, has ...