On the road with the band:

Axl Rose is carrying on like an Apache. He stormed into his home state for a concert and compared the fans there to prisoners at Auschwitz. He showed up two hours late for a New York show and launched into a tirade against his record company and various other institutions, including this magazine. He steamrolled into St. Louis, and before he left town, a riot had broken out. During an encore in Salt Lake City, he got ticked off because the Mormons weren't rocking and said, "I'll get out of here before I put anybody else to sleep." Then he did.

A field report from Electric Daisy Carnival, a three-night bacchanal in the Las Vegas desert attended by “100,000 wasted hedonists scantily dressed in furry underwear.”

The 22-year-old rapper on escaping North Long Beach and his desire to be a “regular” guy.

The writer recalls collaborating on an abandoned musical with David Bowie featuring aliens, (fake) lost Bob Dylan songs, and a mariachi band.

A 16-year-old journalist goes on tour with a band on top. The article that inspired Almost Famous.

On the producer Timbaland, then best known for collaborations with Missy Elliott, Aaliyah, and Ginuwine.

How a 63-year-old country singer went from a Nashville homeless shelter to #1 on the Swedish charts in under a year.

Mamoru Samuragochi’s story turned out to be too good to be true.

When Bob Dylan met Allen Ginsberg; a chapter from Sean Wilentz’s forthcoming Bob Dylan in America.

Music editor Yaroslav Pastukhov drew young journalists and artists into a transnational cocaine-smuggling ring.

The performer behind the anti-comedian Neil Hamburger on being comfortable getting booed.

What will it take to get the world’s choral musicians back together again?

Meet Me @ the Altar want to be household names—and that’s not a crazy notion.

“Befriending a rock star isn’t necessarily as cool as you’d think—particularly when tragedy happens.”

Dr. Hook & the Medicine Show’s thrilling, scary, inept performance on German television.

After being fired from both Nirvana and Soundgarden, Jason Everman joined the Special Forces.

An essay on Beyoncé and her fans.

On the seminal songwriter, who died four years ago today, in his final days before succumbing to dipsomania.

Trevell Coleman wasn’t sure whether he’d killed a man. But after 17 years, he needed to find out.

Kylee Kimbrough lost her childhood, lost her sobriety, lost her living situation, and finally even lost her son. Then she found the drums.

Noah Lennox—better known as Panda Bear—has lived in Lisbon for a decade. How has the Portuguese capital shaped his life and work?

Scenes from Madonna’s first major tour and an author struggling to explain the 26-year-old’s massive, surging appeal.

“By the time we got to Woodstock 99 …” In a grim finale, the nineties get their Altamont.