A week with DJ Avicii.

An interview with Cobain a few months after the release of In Utero.

The star on her unstoppable rise, repping gang life, and the peril of butt injections.

A profile of Spears at her nadir.

John Francis Anthony “Jaco” Pastorius III lay comatose in the intensive-care unit of a Fort Lauderdale hospital for nine days, unrecognized until he was spotted by the doctor who had delivered his children. Once he had been identified, local newspapers ran photographs to accompany stories headlined “DARK DAYS FOR A JAZZ GENIUS” and “JAZZ PERFORMER’S LIFE STRIKES A TRAGIC CHORD” and “THE LONG, SAD SLIDE OF A GIFTED MUSIClAN.” The various photographs seemed to be of different men.

How 88rising is making a place for Asians in hip-hop.

A jailhouse interview.

An interview with Solange.

A conversation between Eminem and Elton John.

The hard life and overlooked brilliance of Zane Campbell.

“Your dreams always have to be big. And mine were huge.”

Spotify’s bid to remodel an industry.

“Meir Kay is a bar mitzvah party motivator.”

On the Old Regular Baptists and the joyful sound.

Richard Hell after Lexington.

A profile of Cardi B.

Outkast’s Andre Benjamin at 42.

You gotta understand, I’ve only written one check in my life. When I was 17, they still had checkbooks, and my mom taught me how to write a check and do my balance. So I had one check on my balance, and then OutKast took off. I have not paid a bill since. People ask, What does it feel like? As humans, we want attention. We want to be validated. At the same time, it’s strange attention, and a lot of it. If you have an excess of anything, it becomes strange.

A profile of the (very emotional) pop singer.

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

On Joni Mitchell and canons.

T La Rock was one of the pioneers of hip-hop. But after an attack put him in a nursing home, he had to fight to recover his identity, starting with the fact that he’d ever been a rapper at all.

A thirty-year-old Tom Petty on the brink of Damn the Torpedoes.

“Love you when you hate us,” Rock proclaims with arms spread. “Welcome to the greatest fuckin’ show on Earth.”

From chart-topper to cautionary tale in three years.

A profile of the artist at the time of her fifth solo record.