Everybody Is a Star: How the Rock Club First Avenue Made Minneapolis the Center of Music in the ’80s
The fabled venue where the Replacements, Hüsker Dü, and Prince emerged.
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Upon This Rock
A visit to the Christian rock Cross-Over Festival in Lake of the Ozarks, Missouri.
The Winners History of Rock and Roll
As mainstream rock declines and disappears from the radio, an examination of seven bands who were amongst the biggest of their respective eras.
Kiss: The Pagan Beasties of Teenage Rock
On the road with the makeup-clad band.
Rock Magic
A conversation between Led Zeppelin’s Jimmy Page and William Burroughs.
How Selling Out Saved Indie Rock
On the importance of the jingle business.
The Fairy Godmother of Rock
A profile of Stevie Nicks.
The True Story of the Fake Zombies, the Strangest Con in Rock History
When the music was real, but the bands were fake.
Nashville's Son: The Life and Death of an Indie-Rock Prince
A portrait of Ben Todd, a DIY champion of the emerging music scene in Nashville.
A Conversation With a False Rock God
Jered Threatin tried to fake his way to fame and got caught red-handed. Or did he?
The Rock ’n’ Roll Casualty Who Became a War Hero
After being fired from both Nirvana and Soundgarden, Jason Everman joined the Special Forces.
Punk Rock Fight Club
Inside FSU, the hardcore brotherhood where the wrong t-shirt can get you killed.
Prisoners of Rock 'n' Roll
Badfinger’s ill-fated attempt at a comeback, as orchestrated by a Milwaukee con man.
Gregg Turkington on What He Learned From Punk Rock
The performer behind the anti-comedian Neil Hamburger on being comfortable getting booed.
The Ad-Rock Retirement Plan
The former Beastie Boy, 48, tries to figure out what’s next.
I'm Sammy Hagar, and I Learned to Cook Before I Learned to Rock
The former Van Halen front man has actually made more money from booze and food than from music.
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Orientalist Party Music
In the early 1960s, Middle Eastern guys in Brooklyn introduced America to Arabic rock-and-roll.
God & Worshipper: A Rock-and-Roll Love Story, of Sorts
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.
Rock, Paper, Scissors
How America used to vote.
How to be a Rock Critic & Here's How
Ah yes, you should also know that most of your colleagues are some of the biggest neurotics in the country, so you might as well get used right now to the way they're gonna be writing you five and ten page single spaced inflammatory letters reviling you for knocking some group that they have proved is the next Stones.
The Mother Courage of Rock
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.
The Longform Guide to Christian Rock
30 Rock Landed on Us
An essay on television and race.
Chris Rock in a Hard Place
On the road with the comic after a bitter divorce.
The Hard-Partying, Rock-Obsessed Nurse at the Center of a Massive Opioid Bust
Patients say the “Rock Doc” helped them like no one else could. Federal prosecutors say his “help” often amounted to dealing drugs for sex.
