The business of being Pitbull.

A profile of Merle Haggard.

An ode to Roy Orbison.

A profile of Erykah Badu.

Spotify’s bid to remodel an industry.

A profile of Bruce Springsteen.

How Post Malone became pop’s king of heartbreak.

Wendy Carlos’s music of the spheres.

On Glenn Gould.

“I hate classical music: not the thing but the name. It traps a tenaciously living art in a theme park of the past. It cancels out the possibility that music in the spirit of Beethoven could still be created today.”

Music writer Mark Fisher (who died this week) on the decline of Michael Jackson.

The producer of Big Star’s Third and piano player on ‘Wild Horses’ recounts a life of music in Memphis.

On the road with Quarterbacks, a young band at the bottom of the music industry.

On a group of women whose lives were forever altered by the Leif Garrett episode of Behind the Music.

How both the drugs and the music have evolved together.

How a group of Queens high schoolers changed music forever while barely managing to remain on speaking terms.

The ’90s icon and Nine Inch Nails frontman talks about listening to music, his own and others, in 2017.

She tore up a picture of the pope. Then her life came apart. These days, she just wants to make music.

The musician, producer and archivist is driven by one thing: a mission to spread the joy of Black music.

How Warren Buffett’s public image has aided his success.

As a successful investor, he merely moved markets; but as the charismatic, reassuring, quotable prototype of the honest capitalist (a sort of J. P. Morgan with a moral sense), he's capable of influencing elections, galvanizing rock-concert-size crowds, and in general defining how we Americans feel about the system that underlies our wealth.

Linguistics and a Blink-182 song.

An interview with Joanna Newsom.

When the Rolling Stones played Altamont.

On Azealia Banks.