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?
Making ‘Lemonade’: Inside Beyonce’s Collaborative Masterpiece
Dave Cobb: Wrangling Rough Country Beasts Toward Nashville
The Curious Decline of Paul Mooney
Kiss and Break Up: Inside the Feud Between Lil Wayne and Birman
For years, the superstar rapper and his mentor formed one of hip-hop’s most inseparable teams. Then it all went terribly wrong.
The Oral History of the “Bohemian Rhapsody” Scene in Wayne’s World
The Mostly True Adventures of Standup Comedy’s Legendary Frat House
One grand old house overlooking the Sunset Strip played host to a generation of comics — including Sam Kinison, Andrew Dice Clay, and Robin Williams — launching dozens of careers and about as many drug problems. The crash pad of a comedy revolution, remembered, kinda, by the people who survived it.
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.
David Peisner 