An interview with Cobain a few months after the release of In Utero.

The Venezuelan maestro of the Los Angeles Philharmonic conjures joy in difficult times.

The producer behind nearly everything Drake does and the multiple sclerosis that has claimed significant portions of his brain.

The singer-songwriter tries to hold down an uncertain moment.

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.

A tour with the Stones, an appearance on The Munsters, and a song about “how Boston is a shit hole.”

Alfred Dellentash Jr. chartered the Rolling Stones in private jets while smuggling planeloads of Pablo Escobar’s drugs on the side.

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.”

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.

A profile of Beck on the eve of his new album and nearly 20 years after the release of “Loser.”

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

The story of Deso Dogg, a German rapper-turned-ISIS propagandist who may or may not have been killed in an airstrike.

Rae Sremmurd, who held the #1 spot for the last 3 weeks for their song Black Beatles, on the precipice of fame.

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

In the Winter of 1964, the Fab Four rocket to superstardom in just six weeks.

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

Searching for Puddles the Clown, whose cover of Lorde’s “Royals” made him an Internet star.

A review/interview/profile:

Let's settle on the bald facts: Eminem has secured his place in the rap pantheon.

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

An excerpt from a new oral history of MTV.

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

An interview with Jimmy Page on nostalgia, Robert Plant, and why he would only publish an autobiography after he dies.

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

An ode to Juiceboxxx, a 27-year-old rapper from Milwaukee no one’s ever heard of.