“Hick-hop” is thriving despite little to no help from the mainstream music industry. Inside a scene full of big dreams and complicated politics
Rolling Stone, January 24, 2018
Author: djpeisner
Rapsody’s Grammy Breakout
El Komander Made a Fortune Off Mexican Drug Ballads. Now He’s Selling Love Songs.
A U.S. record label that has reaped millions of dollars chronicling the drug war confronts a new era–and dozens of deaths.
Danny McBride: The Rolling Stone Interview
Daniel Johnston, Back on the Road, Hopes This Isn’t the End
Fleet Foxes: Getting Out to Get Back In
St. Paul & The Broken Bones’ Southern Soul Revival
How Paul Janeway went from speaking in tongues to fronting one of rock’s hottest live acts
Rolling Stone, November 18, 2016
Inside Hip-Hop’s New Activist Era
As the Black Lives Matter movement reaches a boiling point, artists face a difficult question: How should they respond?
David Peisner 