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“Being Justin Bieber means having an endless number of T-shirts to destroy.” A profile of the pop star just after his 18th birthday.
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“Being Justin Bieber means having an endless number of T-shirts to destroy.” A profile of the pop star just after his 18th birthday.
Drew Magary GQ May 2012 15min Permalink
An ode to the Bee Gees' strange, successful career.
Bob Stanley Paris Review Jul 2014 10min Permalink
“Life has a soundtrack. And certain music is a soundtrack to a certain type of identity or feeling. 50 Cent, the Game, and those kinds of guys—they made us feel like our lives were worth nothing, basically.”
Simone White BOMB Jul 2016 20min Permalink
When the music of Vivaldi and Mozart are used to repel the homeless from sidewalks and Burger Kings, does it still glorify the dignity of humanity?
Theodore Gioia LA Review of Books May 2018 10min Permalink
A profile of Beck on the eve of his new album and nearly 20 years after the release of “Loser.”
Dan P. Lee New York Dec 2012 15min Permalink
A profile of Suge Knight, 29 and the C.E.O. of Death Row Records, before the deaths of Tupac and Notorious B.I.G.
Lynn Hirschberg New York Times Magazine Jan 1996 35min Permalink
For nearly 17 years, the truth about the murder of Mac Dre has been one of hip-hop’s great unsolved mysteries.
Donny Morrison Passion of the Weiss May 2021 35min Permalink
A profile of RZA, hip-hop artist and kung fu film director.
Alex Pappademas GQ Nov 2012 15min Permalink
The selfie may have ended any hope of resurrecting New York’s nightlife.
Anthony Haden-Guest The Daily Beast Feb 2015 10min Permalink
The Beastie Boys on tour in Los Angeles shortly after the release of their debut album, Licensed to Ill.
Chuck Eddy Creem May 1987 15min Permalink
A profile of fashion designer Nudie Cohn, who made clothing for Elvis, Glen Campbell, Johnny Cash, and others.
Jason Diamond Tablet May 2012 Permalink
“You’re either with Korn and Limp Bizkit, or you’re against them.” The birth of nu-metal.
Steven Hyden AV Club Feb 2011 Permalink
A thirty-year-old Tom Petty on the brink of Damn the Torpedoes.
Mikal Gilmore Rolling Stone Feb 1980 15min Permalink
An interview with Cobain a few months after the release of In Utero.
David Fricke Rolling Stone Jan 1994 25min Permalink
The Venezuelan maestro of the Los Angeles Philharmonic conjures joy in difficult times.
Brian Phillips New York Times Magazine Nov 2018 20min Permalink
The producer behind nearly everything Drake does and the multiple sclerosis that has claimed significant portions of his brain.
Charles Holmes Rolling Stone Jun 2020 25min Permalink
“In the recent history of American music, there’s no figure parallel to Lehrer in his effortless ascent to fame, his trajectory into the heart of the culture — and then his quiet, amiable, inexplicable departure.”
Ben Smith, Anita Badejo Buzzfeed Apr 2014 20min Permalink
Reverse engineering the details of a murder that took place in St. Louis on Christmas Night in 1895 from over a century of popular song.
Paul Slade PlanetSlade 40min Permalink
How Atlanta-born Davido, the son of a wealthy Nigerian businessman, hopes to break the international market with his brand of Nigerian pop.
Rawiya Kameir The Fader Feb 2016 Permalink
Can one of the nation’s great musicians cut through the fog of a D.C. rush hour?
Gene Weingarten Washington Post Apr 2007 30min Permalink
A day in the life of Mount Eerie’s Phil Elverum, in the wake of the sudden death of his wife when their daughter was four months old.
Jayson Greene Pitchfork Mar 2017 20min Permalink
From 1968-1973, the three teenage Wiggin sisters, guided by a domineering father, played their strange music at New Hampshire ballrooms and recorded a single album. The Philosophy of the World LP goes for over $500 today, but the intervening decades have not been kind to the Wiggins.
Susan Orlean New Yorker Sep 1999 20min Permalink
Three years after profiling him, the author checks in with the Bieber experiment.
Vanessa Grigoriadis New York Jul 2014 20min Permalink
A law professor’s interpretation of the 2004 hit.
Caleb Mason Saint Louis School of Law Jan 2010 40min Permalink
Alfred Dellentash Jr. chartered the Rolling Stones in private jets while smuggling planeloads of Pablo Escobar’s drugs on the side.
Jeff Maysh Narratively Nov 2014 30min Permalink