Blink-182’s Mark Hoppus got cancer—and then accidentally shared his diagnosis with the public over social media. Turns out getting sick renewed his faith, healed his old friendships, and reminded him what makes life worth living.
Learning to love music—and to hate it, too.
A lifetime of brutal injuries and misfortune robbed the world-renowned pianist João Carlos Martins of the ability to play his instrument. And then along came an eccentric designer and his bionic gloves.
The musician, producer and archivist is driven by one thing: a mission to spread the joy of Black music.
“You have to ask for food. You have to ask to go use the bathroom. … [Kelly] is a master at mind control. … He is a puppet master.”
“Befriending a rock star isn’t necessarily as cool as you’d think—particularly when tragedy happens.”
The singer-songwriter tries to hold down an uncertain moment.
During the brief moment when the pandemic was receding and we could be together again, all we wanted to do was move our bodies.
Meet Me @ the Altar want to be household names—and that’s not a crazy notion.
On peaches.
A profile of the singer-songwriter.
How the pop star’s father and a team of lawyers seized control of her life—and have held on to it for thirteen years.
The veteran music publicist and radio host is also the indefatigable voice behind the most viral prompt questions on Twitter.
Trying to make sense of a fragmented, disparate musical tradition.
The mainstream narrative is that a pop star ripped up a photo of the pope on “Saturday Night Live” and derailed her life. What if the opposite were true?
Jimmy Carter pardoned Peter Yarrow for what he did to a 14-year-old girl in a D.C. hotel room in 1969. But the Peter, Paul and Mary star is accused of sexually assaulting others, too.
For nearly 17 years, the truth about the murder of Mac Dre has been one of hip-hop’s great unsolved mysteries.
“And while maybe you don’t care if Justin Bieber ever does make his way back to a kind of normalcy, perhaps you can admit there is at least something admirable, in the abstract, about someone finding a way to survive, and even to become kind, when all they’ve been taught since a young age, by millions of adoring people, is that there is no need for them to be kind at all. And if that doesn’t move you, then maybe you can at least find sociological interest in the process that Bieber is about to recount here, which is how you turn into someone you don’t want to be, and what you do about it once you decide you want to be someone else. Someone better, even.”
What will it take to get the world’s choral musicians back together again?
Musicians are in peril, at the mercy of giant monopolies that profit off their work.
The search for Guns N’ Roses’ elusive guitarist.
A trip to Kingston, Jamaica to track down Bunny Wailer, a reggae legend now living “in his own private Zion.”
The Brooklyn rapper, fresh out of prison on parole, talks about life on the inside and where he goes next.
Why did I ever believe a teen girl could hold all the power?
On Black nonchalance.
Gold and diamond grills. Stilettos you can’t walk in. Grandly arching fingernails, lovingly adorned. Such flouting of functionality is an obvious fuck-you to the days of scrutinized teeth at auctions and picking cotton on plantations.
