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

BLACK ENTERPRISE acknowledges these musicians, who are no longer with us but have transformed the musical sic culture for Black Music Month ...

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

Famous for his hits with Sly and the Family Stone, the abundantly talented musician created infectious and enduring music in the 1960s and 1970s.

A feature documentary, Sly Lives! (aka The Burden of Black Genius), directed by the musician Questlove, was released in 2024. [ Roddy Doyle's review of Sly Stone's autobiography ] ...

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 ...

"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 ...

In Questlove’s excellent February doc, Sly Lives! (aka The Burden of Black Genius), D’Angelo — funk alchemist whose balance of talent and evasiveness takes after Stone — stresses the ...

Founded in 1966-67, Sly and the Family Stone was the first major group to include Black and white men and women, and well embodied a time when anything seemed possible — riots and assassinations ...