Artists, Poets, Drifters, Grifters, and Goddesses finds the rocker getting candid about his split with the J. Geils Band and ...

Following a stint at Motown in Detroit, George Clinton would found both Parliament and Funkadelic in New Jersey in 1968, working alongside artists like Sly and the Family Stone to push the ...

The J. Geils Band singer’s memoir recounts his years performing with musical royalty and partying with the world.

“I hate to say it,” the rhythm and blues singer D’Angelo ventures toward the end of Questlove’s new documentary “Sly Lives!” (streaming on Hulu), “but these White rock-and-rollers ...

Stone’s legacy is different. In the late 1960s and early ’70s, the West Coast polymath synthesized acid rock and funk through his multiracial, mixed-gender group Sly and the Family Stone ...

Led Zeppelin and Sly & the Family Stone, both in 1969. At left, Led Zeppelin: Jimmy Page and Robert plant (standing), John Paul Jones and John Bonham (seated). At right, Sly & the Family Stone ...

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 ...

O ut of all of the Bay Area’s musician geniuses, there may be none more mercurial than Sly Stone.Writer of such hits as “Everyday People” and “Dance to the Music,” his band Sly & the ...

Sly & the Family Stone's performance at Woodstock is regarded as the best of the best. Sly & the Family Stone — the iconic group of the 1960s, 1970s and beyond — performed at Palace Park in ...

UCR recently spoke with producer Joseph Patel, who also worked with Questlove on Summer of Soul, about Sly Lives! and why Stone's story matters. At the beginning of the film, Questlove ...

(a.k.a. The Burden of Black Genius)", about psychedelic-era shooting star Sly Stone, and "Ladies & Gentlemen ... 50 Years of SNL Music." ...