The June 2021 Relix issue features our Questlove cover story and much more! The Roots’ Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson offers a deep dive into his directorial debut, Summer of Soul, which won both the Grand Jury Prize and the Audience Award at the 2021 Sundance Film Festival for its riveting portrait of Sly & The Family Stone, Stevie Wonder, Nina Simone, Mahalia Jackson, B.B. King and many others at 1969’s Harlem Cultural Festival. This issue also contains additional articles and interviews with Al Jardine, Nancy Wilson, Chuck Leavell, Joe Russo, Marco Benevento, Lukas Nelson & Promise of the Real, Jenny Lewis, Pinegrove, Les Claypool, Cage Claypool, Robert Trujillo, Christian Scott aTunde Adjuah, Bonnie “Prince” Billy, Matt Sweeney, Darkside, Nicolás Jaar, Dave Harrington, Leftover Salmon, CHAI, Seth Walker, RJ Bee, Mike Dillon, Valerie June, John Mailander, John Andrews and The Yawns and more!
