Original Features

Spoiler: The audience member almost always deserved it.

The country was suddenly impacting the U.S. like never before.

They defied the odds by coming back into the spotlight after a career drought.

Looking back at key shows from the band's history, including the legendary Boston act's first concert.

The genre was on life support, but a few gems still emerged in the shadow of grunge.

They tend to have a few touchstones: nostalgia, longing, acoustic guitar picking and a deep melancholy.

For more than half a century, the superstar producer has made some of the weirdest records to hit the charts.

Musicians appropriate ideas from everywhere, sometimes to the point where a court of law calls it stealing.

Some are born out of tragedy, others by creative restlessness.

Some of them have been resolved, but others remain raw.