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Features from your favorite artists! Including interviews, essays, long-form, short-form, and more.

Searching for a Perfectly Good Guitar

Searching for a Perfectly Good Guitar

The first time Pete Townshend smashed a guitar on stage, every guitarist not only cringed and got a little pissed off at Townshend for destroying an instrument that turned him into a great musician but also mourned the death of the music that would never more flow from that instrument.

Bluegrass Goes to College, But Should It?

Bluegrass Goes to College, But Should It?

My Hornsby Infatuation, Salute to Garcia, and Rhiannon Giddens’ Musical Freedom Rites

My Hornsby Infatuation, Salute to Garcia, and Rhiannon Giddens’ Musical Freedom Rites

They Blew Up the Chicken Man

They Blew Up the Chicken Man

"I've Always Been a Stubborn Motherfucker"

"I've Always Been a Stubborn Motherfucker"

Zeb Snyder: A Prodigy Making Good

Zeb Snyder: A Prodigy Making Good

Eric Andersen at McCabe's: A Bittersweet Reunion with Joni Mitchell

Eric Andersen at McCabe's: A Bittersweet Reunion with Joni Mitchell