The outsized legacy of the emo rapper who always said he would die young.

How one of the world’s top conductors became ensnared in a WWI-era scandal.

During the 90s, David Bazan was Christian indie-rock’s first big crossover star. Then he stopped believing.

From chart-topper to cautionary tale in three years.

A profile of the artist at the time of her fifth solo record.

"If I had been a straight-A student my whole life and had rapped about Jesus coming back to save us all, I wouldn’t get no media. The motherfuckers wouldn’t give a fuck about me. But since I’m telling the truth, and been through what I’m stressing and know what I’m talking about, I’m a threat."

“When I first received this Nobel Prize for Literature, I got to wondering exactly how my songs related to literature. I wanted to reflect on it and see where the connection was. I’m going to try to articulate that to you. And most likely it will go in a roundabout way, but I hope what I say will be worthwhile and purposeful.”

Watching the jazz singer in New York.

The creators of This is Spinal Tap, the most influential mockumentary ever made, have been paid almost nothing. Now they are suing for $400 million.

A profile of the Atlanta star and creator, who also released a hit album in 2016 and is set to star in the next Star Wars.

How Atlanta-born Davido, the son of a wealthy Nigerian businessman, hopes to break the international market with his brand of Nigerian pop.

A sociologist embeds with a gang in Chicago.

A profile of Hank Williams III.

A girls' camp nature walk takes an unusual, grotesque turn.

An oral history of Aaliyah.

How Irv Teibel pioneered the capturing and repackaging of nature’s acoustics.

“It is a story that seems almost impossible to believe: a group of female convicts, few of whom had ever played a musical instrument or taken voice lessons, forming a country and western band and becoming, at least in Texas, the Dixie Chicks of their day.”

At 76, Atlanta’s Beverly “Guitar” Watkins still lives for the blues.

When James Brown died on Christmas Day 2006, he left behind a fortune worth tens, maybe hundreds, of millions of dollars. The problem is, he also left behind fourteen children, sixteen grandchildren, eight mothers of his children, several mistresses, thirty lawyers, a former manager, an aging dancer, a longtime valet, and a sister who’s really not a sister but calls herself the Godsister of Soul anyway.

‘‘That’s something I don’t think I could ever do,’’ she said. ‘‘Send my only girl to another random country to live with people she’d just met. It had to be God that paralyzed Monica Fenty’s emotions so that she’d say, ‘Yes, go.’ To this day, I don’t know how that happened. But thank God it did.’’

Attending a meeting of the Continental Drift Club in Berlin.

Tracking down the very best in Grateful Dead concert concessions.

The former Van Halen front man has actually made more money from booze and food than from music.

Inside the cutthroat world of competitive bagpiping.

On the life and death of The Voice contestant Anthony Riley.