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

In the late 1960s and early ’70s, Sly and his band, the Family Stone, effectively ruled over American popular music, but by the middle part of the 1970s, Sly had descended into a nightmarish ...

Sly & The Family Stone were a great utopian experiment in pop music. This was a band born out of the cultural chaos of the late-’60s that reflected that chaos back on the world and turned it ...

According to a press release, the doc "examines the life and legacy of Sly & The Family Stone, the groundbreaking band led by the charismatic and enigmatic Sly Stone." The project will also ...

Ostensibly it covers the career of Sly Stone, the prodigious musician who, during the late '60s and '70s, generated some of ...

In this Slate Plus episode, Anna talks about the trailblazing psychedelic funk band Sly and the Family Stone with Joseph Patel, producer for the new documentary Sly Lives! (aka The Burden of Black ...

At right, Sly & the Family Stone: L-R (back): Larry Graham ... industry in the 45 years since drummer John Bonham died and the band called it quits. What is maybe most valuable about Becoming ...

The neo-soul singer and nine other band members were involved in a fatal car accident, leading to her death on March 1.

The documentary traces Sly Stone's career, from popular DJ in the San Francisco Bay Area to frontman for a groundbreaking interracial band. Record producer and musician Questlove directed the film ...

But it also shows the band to be as blithely charming and shrewd as real people - the thing missing from Stone’s depiction in Questlove’s documentary. If the Family Stone were to tell the ...