In his new documentary Sly Lives! (aka The Burden of Black Genius), Questlove delves into the genius and torments of Sly Stone — and uses that story as window into many other artists’ lives, including ...

The great rock-funk-soul band Sly and the Family Stone didn’t just make hits in the 1960s and ‘70s, they made “culture-changing hits,” in the words of no less a figure than record mogul Clive Davis.

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 ...

For the holiday weekend, we're revisiting our recent interview with Questlove. His documentary, SLY LIVES! (aka The Burden of Black Genius), examines Sly Stone's enormous impact on music — and the ...

The filmmaker also talks about how he painstakingly captured half a century of ‘Saturday Night Live’ singing performances in directing his new doc. By Ethan Millman Music Editor If there’s a word that ...

Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson is well on his way to becoming an EGOT winner. He already has an Oscar for Best Documentary for Summer of Soul, and he has six Grammys. Now he is hoping to grab an Emmy for ...

“Sly Lives! (aka The Burden of Black Genius)” road tests a theory that its director, Ahmir Questlove Thompson, has had for a while, and that’s articulated in the Hulu documentary by Dream Hampton: ...