Joseph Patel on honoring Sly Stone in ‘Sly Lives!' The Oscar-winning producer shares how he and Questlove created a powerful ...

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 ...

Director Ahmir "Questlove" Thompson and Oscar-winning producer Joseph Patel discuss "Sly Lives!" Six New States Now Able to ...

Sly’s triumphs, peaked over 50 years ago, have long since been obscured by a widely documented hellscape of drugs, wild extravagances, label disputes, haphazard live appearances, the dissolution of ...

In the fall of 1971, Sly and the Family Stone’s “There’s a Riot Goin’ On” landed like a quiet revolution. After two years of silence following the band’s mainstream success, fans expected more ...

Rickey Vincent is a music historian who's made a career out of studying funk and soul music – including the work of Sly Stone. Rickey teaches at UC Berkeley and he's also a DJ on KPFA up in the ...