Jewish remembrance is not a hobby; it is a command. Bread left unleavened so the story rises instead; a candle that arrests ...

Sylvester Stewart aka Sly Stone passed away in June but his soulful funky music and desire for world unity resurrected Saturday night inside Bryant Park. Thousands packed the popular NYC space for a ...

Jeremy Allen White embodies Bruce Springsteen in the music biopic "Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere" about the making of "Nebraska." ...

While screening the documentary “Sly Lives!,” producer Joseph Patel told Variety’s senior entertainment writer Angelique Jackson that the filmmakers were not sure if their subject, Sly Stone, would ...

When Sly Stone died in June at the age of 82, one of those mourning him at his funeral was in a unique position to appreciate the full extent of his musical gifts, as a brilliant talent himself – the ...

Director Questlove and producer Joseph Patel tell IndieWire about creating a balance between music nerdom and the life of Sly Stone in their documentary. So “Sly Lives!” is a few different things at ...

Sly & The Family Stone got the coveted call to be featured performers on The Ed Sullivan Show in December 1968. Following Sly’s invocation, “Don’t hate the Black, don’t hate the White / If you get bit ...

The public is invited to join a heartfelt homegoing celebration honoring the life and legacy of the legendary Sly Stone. The celebration takes place starting at 2pm on Saturday, August 2 at Shiloh ...

Of paradigm-shifting legends who’ve made recent transitions, the epitaph following the death of Sylvester Stewart/Sly Stone, is inarguably the most elusive and perplexing. One of the undisputed ...

Once upon a time, being in a rock band meant, ipso facto, being in a cover band. There are still plenty of cover bands, of course, but the Beatles and especially punk helped move it from being the ...