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

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.

An interview with Greil Marcus on the songs of Van Morrison and why people are afraid of imagined things.

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.

A profile of Lil Yachty.

Can one of the nation’s great musicians cut through the fog of a D.C. rush hour?

A Swiss chateau. A Broadway musical all about her. And absolutely nothing she has to do.

After faking his entire career and becoming a viral sensation, the heavy metal singer shares his side of the story.

The Brooklyn rapper, fresh out of prison on parole, talks about life on the inside and where he goes next.

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

For nearly 17 years, the truth about the murder of Mac Dre has been one of hip-hop’s great unsolved mysteries.

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

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

Departing Marrakech by car with a plan to record music for the Library of Congress.

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.

A law professor’s interpretation of the 2004 hit.

The rise of One Direction fanfiction that imagines the band members in relationships – with each other.

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

On the “queer roots” of Disco, House, and beyond.

A barely drinking-age Green Day profiled shortly after the release of Dookie.

A profile of Hank Williams III.

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?