Sundance: Questlove On ‘Sly Lives!’ Secret Heart, His Park City Return, ‘SNL’ Music Film, New Roots Album & Self-Sabotage. Dominic Patten. Fri, January 24, 2025 at 12:24 AM UTC.

Sly Lives!, Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson’s documentary on the good life and hard times of a frontman and Family man that opened the Sundance Film Festival, wants to connect some dots for you.

Like so many rock docs, Sly Lives! is both a tribute and a cautionary tale. It’d be impossible for it not to be. Stone’s meteoric rise eventually led to a long, slow comedown, as the rocker ...

Questlove on Sly Stone: ‘His Artistry Came With a Burden’ Questlove, director of the Sly Stone documentary Sly Lives , looks back at the late artist's genius and pain in a new essay By Ahmir ...

Questlove Set Out to Answer One Question With the Documentary ‘Sly Lives!’: What Is Black Genius? The drummer-producer and documentarian explains why that theme was central to his film on the ...

‘Sly Lives!,’ the original documentary about legendary musician Sly Stone directed by Roots founder and Oscar-winning filmmaker Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson, will premiere Thursday, Feb. 13 ...

Sly Lives! (AKA The Burden of Black Genius) has two things going on, the first being a celebration of a genius singer-songwriter-producer who never really made it into the pantheon of greats ...

The husband and wife superstars were both nominees in the outstanding variety special (live) category, while other high ...

Musician and Oscar-winning director Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson on his new film for Hulu, “SLY LIVES! (aka The Burden of Black Genius),” which details the rise and fall of the enigmatic Sly Stone.

A snippet of music history will hit the shelves on July 18 with the new Sly & The Family Stone album The First Family: Live ...

Severance' got the most nominations this year, followed by 'The Penguin,' 'The Studio,' 'The White Lotus,' and 'The Last of ...