A U.S. record label that has reaped millions of dollars chronicling the drug war confronts a new era–and dozens of deaths.
El Komander Made a Fortune Off Mexican Drug Ballads. Now He’s Selling Love Songs.
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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
Making ‘Lemonade’: Inside Beyonce’s Collaborative Masterpiece
Dave Cobb: Wrangling Rough Country Beasts Toward Nashville
Revolutionary on the Run
In 2011, at age 23, Ramy Essam, Egypt’s “singer for the revolution” was lionized for helping to overthrow a dictator. Four years later, a brutal military crackdown has all but destroyed the country’s youthful protest movement while its hero bides his time in a faraway country, trying to keep the fight — and himself — alive.
The Oral History of In Living Color
In The Studio: Mastodon
The Wait Is Almost Over
Tomorrow, the greatest book in the history of the printed word will finally be available for purchase by the general public. If you are only going to buy one book this year about an alcoholic, self-abusive, vegan, pyromaniac ex-circus clown with a talent for vomiting on command and stapling his scrotum to his leg, make sure this is the one:
Tunisian Revolutionary Rap
My burgeoning radio career continues. I recently returned from ten days in Tunisia, researching a story on Tunisian rap and its role in the revolution there. (Look for the story in Spin in the coming months.) While I was there, I spoke to my new best friend Marco Werman from PRI’s “The World” about the subject. This post also marks the debut of my considerable, uh, talents as a photographer. The photos below the link were snapped by me with my trusty camera-phone.
PRI’s “The World,” May 18, 2011
- Lak3y in Bizerte
David Peisner 