The Grammy Award–winning bandleader for The Roots spoke with Fresh Air's Terry Gross about his film on the funk musician who led Sly & the Family Stone in the 1960s and '70s.

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WTVF) — February is Black History Month and the National Museum of African American Music has an invitation to share. It's called Sly Lives: The Burden of a Black Genius and tells ...

What is Black genius?” It’s a slightly sideways question that results in some blank looks, but the filmmaker’s point is this: ...

The Sly & the Family Stone leader is the subject of a new documentary directed by Questlove. Here’s what to know about his ...

An examination of the life and legacy of Sly & The Family Stone — the groundbreaking band led by the charismatic and enigmatic Sly Stone — captures the band’s rise, reign, and subsequent fadeout while ...

Midway through Black History Month, it’s worth noting the relative brevity of Black film history—the very first major-studio feature to be directed by an African-American didn’t come along until 1969, ...

Sly Lives! (aka The Burden of Black Genius)” examines the influential Sly and the Family Stone front man. It also probes a ...

Your TV GPS, a look at the week ahead in television, appears every Monday morning on BostonGlobe.com. Today’s column covers ...

Organizers for the international celebration of independent music outlets have shared the list of what's coming Record Store Day 2025.

Record playing has always been a ritualistic experience for Sting. “To take the record out of its sleeve and lovingly with two fingers, put it on the turntable, and then carefully put the stylus on ...

At the event, Gipson, along with co-organizer Nico Ledwith, will spin songs on both vinyl and CD that shaped funk music.

Manchester supergroup Oasis will be releasing a special remastered vinyl for Record Store Day. The band join the likes of Fred Again, Charli XCX, Gorillaz and Taylor Swift who are set to drop ...