Lionel Hahn/ Questlove defends the “audacity” Maria Shriver showed — in an old interview that’s central to his film — by trying to get Sly Stone to acknowledge he “blew it” in letting drugs derail his ...

(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 interviewees D’Angelo ...

Directors Stanley Nelson and Nicole London discuss their new documentary We Want the Funk! on Deadline's Doc Talk podcast.

Sly Stone and feel-good funk music seemingly go hand in hand, but there’s a darker message hiding behind his upbeat hits from the 1970s and ‘80s that music historian and famed Roots founder ...

P BS’s Independent Lens series tackles the history and cultural impact of funk music in its latest 90-minute documentary, We ...

Stacker ranked the best films of 2025 as of March 10 using data from Metacritic. Find out which movies critics are loving the ...

The Bay Area’s 2200 Studios, which opened in early 2025, recently unveiled Studio A, the facility’s flagship room, which ...

Artists, Poets, Drifters, Grifters, and Goddesses Peter Wolf is best known as the lead singer of the J. Geils Band.  Even ...

Festival-goers run in to find shady spots in Jackson Square after the gates open during the first day of French Quarter Festival in New Orleans, Thursday, April 10, 2025. (Photo by Sophia Germer, The ...

A new documentary examines the golden age of funk music, when large, often interracial bands lay down syncopated grooves that packed dance floors. John Blake says that today’s pop music, largely ...