Badfinger’s ill-fated attempt at a comeback, as orchestrated by a Milwaukee con man.

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

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

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

When the music was real, but the bands were fake.

The true story of a ring of thieves who stole millions of dollars’ worth of luxury watches—and the special agent who brought them down.

How a childhood of anger led the founder of 8chan to create one of the darkest corners of the internet.

“Miles Davis was a deeply competitive artist, and the idea that he was losing audiences to white rock musicians with inferior skills—and, worse, had to open for them at concerts—inspired him to beat them at their own game. But he did so very much on his own terms.”

His health failing and his business in tatters, the head of Death Row Records faces murder charges that could put him away for life.

A profile of the greatest checkers player of all time.

Two lawyers, a summer of unrest, and a bottle of Bud Light.

Stylistically speaking, in terms of clothing, they arrived in shirts and pants and shoes (there’s really no other way to say it). They had haircuts, but it didn’t really look it. While other bands were mumbling or over-enunciating their dreary positions or penny-candy philosophies, Pavement kind of screamed for a generation. But they did it in a way that was so deeply American that it was almost Scandinavian.

Playwright Will Eno profiles the band and their cult as they grow up and prepare for a reunion.

Four years after a disastrous MTV performance had led him to avoid the public, Rose was back on stage.

During the 90s, David Bazan was Christian indie-rock’s first big crossover star. Then he stopped believing.

The Tacoma Refugee Choir founder didn’t anticipate its impact on her—or her city.

Prince had grand plans for his autobiography, but only a few months to live.

Remembering jazz musician Ornette Coleman.

The aftereffects of youthful escapes into movie houses.

The mainstreaming of livestreaming.

Memories of “Hollywood’s most grinding bore,” Ronald Reagan.

Here’s what’s become of them.

A history of scandal and civil war within the first family of the Unification Church.

A cave in Russia, a long-lost tip of a pinkie bone, and the discovery of a new kind of human being.

On the rise of Indian Posse, the largest of Canada’s native gangs, and the fall of its leader.

The rise and fall of Mickey the Pope, the founder of a New York City marijuana delivery business.