By: Devin McKinney

The morose or blissful episodes of life as it is lived.

By: Katie Hennessey

An underrated, under-appreciated, undercover overachiever.

By: Devin McKinney

A convincingly defeatist song about the end of the world.

By: Mike Fleisch

Rita Hayworth meets David Bowie

By: Tom Nealon

Miley Cyrus is at once surface and symbol.

By: Tor Aarestad

“Like Martin Luther King, I will do my thing”

By: Lynn Peril

Sexy, funny, truly disturbing — and always riveting.

By: Adam McGovern

A consciously anonymous persona yet a conspicuously anomalous presence.

By: Tor Aarestad

Driven by a desire to create music that white bandleaders couldn’t play.

By: Lynn Peril

He fit emotive, supple stories into the short, rhythmic space that is a song.

By: Greg Rowland

He invites us to fail better with our every attempt to explore his sonic presence.

By: Lynn Peril

Even his suicide was spectacularly ill-timed.

By: Robert Wringham

She described her true self as an old woman chain-smoking on a front step.

By: HILOBROW

It’s like that, y’all. And you don’t stop.

By: Franklin Bruno

Franklin Bruno on hip hop’s dance crew The Lockers