By: Jen Collins

“There’s nothing like living in a bottle.”

By: Brian Berger

He was country when country wasn’t cool.

By: Brian Berger

“Life is rhythm.”

By: Tucker Cummings

He is brilliant at blending comedy with sensuality.

By: Franklin Bruno

“Beware of Elvis.”

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.