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A profile of the piano prodigy.
Janet Malcolm New Yorker Aug 2016 30min Permalink
A profile of Spears at her nadir.
Vanessa Grigoriadis Rolling Stone Feb 2008 35min Permalink
The Inglewood rapper has survived the death, deportation, and displacement of his family and friends.
Jeff Weiss the LAnd magazine Feb 2019 20min Permalink
His rise to the top of the Billboard charts coincides with a list of criminal charges, including domestic battery by strangulation, false imprisonment, and aggravated battery of a pregnant woman.
Tarpley Hitt Miami New Times Jun 2018 25min Permalink
In the normal universe, "to be" is annihilated by "not to be." But for reasons that are still a mystery to even the deepest math of physics, a bit of matter in a billion or so is not obliterated, it has no antimatter partner. It becomes a drop of experience.
Charles Mudede The Stranger Sep 2019 15min Permalink
On the trail of the phantom women who changed American music and vanished without a trace.
John Jeremiah Sullivan New York Times Magazine Apr 2014 55min Permalink
Remembering Amy Winehouse.
Leslie Jamison Tin House Jul 2018 20min Permalink
On the late singer Judee Sill, the virtual cemetery site Find a Grave, and memorials in the age of the Twitter RIP.
Lindsay Zoladz Pitchfork Feb 2013 10min Permalink
“I’ll tell you what freedom is to me: no fear. I mean really, no fear!”
Adam Shatz New York Review of Books Mar 2016 15min Permalink
The story of a bizarre—and bizarrely effective—smear campaign.
Joshua Davis Wired Apr 2012 25min Permalink
The story of Deso Dogg, a German rapper-turned-ISIS propagandist who may or may not have been killed in an airstrike.
Amos Barshad The Fader Aug 2016 Permalink
After faking his entire career and becoming a viral sensation, the heavy metal singer shares his side of the story.
KJ Yossman Kerrang! Oct 2019 15min Permalink
On Patti Smith.
It was easy for lazy journalists to caricature her as a stringbean who looked like Keith Richards, emitted Dylanish word salads, and dropped names—a high-concept tribute act of some sort, very wet behind the ears. But then her first album, Horses, came out in November 1975, and silenced most of the scoffers.
Luc Sante New York Review of Books Feb 2012 15min Permalink
In Brooklyn’s Brownsville, being in a gang can mean as little as being born on a specific block. Ackquille Pollard spent his final free days as a viral rap sensation, before being jailed as the leader of a sect of Crips.
Scott Eden GQ May 2016 25min Permalink
In 1963, William Zantzinger was convicted of manslaughter in the death of Hattie Carroll and then immortalized – and somewhat defamed – by Bob Dylan. What’s he been up to since then?
Ian Frazier Mother Jones Nov 2004 15min Permalink
Skinny, sober, happily married, and seemingly full of radiant light, Gucci's become an improbably inspiring public figure, a beacon of serenity and gratitude for positivity-starved times.
Alex Pappademas GQ Sep 2018 10min Permalink
How a group of Queens high schoolers changed music forever while barely managing to remain on speaking terms.
Mikal Gilmore Rolling Stone May 2016 30min Permalink
The musician, producer and archivist is driven by one thing: a mission to spread the joy of Black music.
Jazmine Hughes The New York Times Magazine Oct 2021 30min Permalink
On the many lives and careers of Owsley Stanley (1935-2011), chemist, sound design innovator, and outback jeweler, whose name appears in the OED as a synonym for “a particularly pure form of LSD.”
Robert Greenfield Rolling Stone Jul 2007 30min Permalink
How a blind, destitute man became a world-class composer while living on the streets of New York.
Zachary Crockett Priceonomics Jan 2015 15min Permalink
He’s their hero, but he’s also their soulmate, the one person in the world who understands them. That’s why Stephen Wesley and the legions of fans like him can’t get enough of the Mountain Goats. And that burden is crushing Darnielle.
On the passionate relationship between fans and John Danielle of the Mountain Goats.
Stephen Rodrick New York Mar 2009 20min Permalink
How the singer became the target of the Federal Bureau of Narcotics’ early, racially-motivated war on drugs. </br></br>
Excerpted from Chasing the Scream: The First and Last Days of the War on Drugs.
Johann Hari Politico Magazine Jan 2015 20min Permalink
An interview with Steve Albini on art, commerce, and ethic.
Michael Friedman Psychology Today Jul 2015 25min Permalink
On the “queer roots” of Disco, House, and beyond.
Luis-Manuel Garcia Resident Advisor Jan 2014 1h Permalink
Mo Pinel spent a career reshaping the ball’s inner core to harness the power of physics. He revolutionized the sport—and spared no critics along the way.
Brendan I. Koerner Wired May 2021 25min Permalink