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The comic failings of a Kickstarter project that promised a “Netflix for vinyl.”
Michael Nelson Stereogum May 2015 10min Permalink
A profile of the late singer.
Claire Hoffman Rolling Stone Jul 2008 10min Permalink
The ups and downs of a beloved British pop band.
Amos Barshad Grantland May 2015 15min Permalink
Leonard Cohen’s 2 A.M. set at the disastrous Isle of Wight festival, 1970.
Liel Leibovitz Tablet Jan 2012 15min Permalink
The people behind San Francisco’s Summer of Love.
Sheila Weller Vanity Fair Jul 2012 25min Permalink
The spiritual union of Johnny Cash and Rick Rubin.
David Kamp Vanity Fair Oct 2004 40min Permalink
A profile of Chicago soul great Syl Johnson.
Peter Margasak Chicago Reader Nov 2010 15min Permalink
A profile of Cardi B.
Allison P. Davis New York Nov 2017 20min Permalink
The star on her unstoppable rise, repping gang life, and the peril of butt injections.
Caity Weaver GQ Apr 2018 25min Permalink
An oral history of Lilith Fair.
Jessica Hopper, Sasha Geffen, Jenn Pelly Vanity Fair Sep 2019 40min Permalink
A profile of Bill Withers at 76.
Andy Greene Rolling Stone Apr 2015 15min Permalink
On the road with Quarterbacks, a young band at the bottom of the music industry.
Amos Barshad The Fader Jan 2016 15min Permalink
She tore up a picture of the pope. Then her life came apart. These days, she just wants to make music.
Geoff Edgers Washington Post Mar 2020 15min Permalink
"And far from the ivory towers of music academia, mostly on his blog, Elgar’s Enigma Theme Unmasked, Bob Padgett has emerged as perhaps the most prolific and dogged of all Enigma seekers. His solution, which has caught the attention of classical music scholars, lies at the bottom of a rabbit hole of anagrams, cryptography, the poet Longfellow, the composer Mendelssohn, the Shroud of Turin, and Jesus, all of which he believes he found hiding in plain sight in the music".
Daniel Estrin New Republic Feb 2017 15min Permalink
The musicians of Mali find themselves in the middle of a civil war.
Joshua Hammer The Atavist May 2015 35min Permalink
A profile of of Courtney Love.
Eric Wilson New York Times Nov 2010 Permalink
How legends of the American music industry made millions off the work of Solomon Linda, a Zulu tribesman who wrote “The Lion Sleeps Tonight” and died a pauper.
Rian Malan Rolling Stone May 2000 45min Permalink
The memories of rock stars’ ex-lovers.
Alexandra Molotkow The Believer Jul 2014 25min Permalink
A profile of Lonny Breaux, post-fame.
Jeff Himmelman New York Times Magazine Feb 2012 25min Permalink
The meaning of the Eurovision Song Contest.
Anthony Lane New Yorker Jun 2010 30min Permalink
An instrument’s impact on a handful of Texans.
Hank Stuever Austin American-Statesman Nov 1997 35min Permalink
Inside the cluttered Los Angeles apartment of lo-fi auteur Ariel Pink.
On the importance of the jingle business.
Jessica Hopper Buzzfeed Nov 2013 15min Permalink
An oral history of Gucci Mane’s many rises and falls.
Benjamin Meadows-Ingram The Fader Oct 2015 55min Permalink
Looking for the ghosts of the Allman Brothers Band in Macon.
Amanda Petrusich Oxford American Jan 2016 20min Permalink