Original Features

"It always felt like destiny," Phil Lesh would say many years after the world's most famous jam band was born.

Both the band and Pete Townshend got off to a fast start, only to quickly stall out.

From Santana to the Stones and a whole bunch in between, the blues legend has worked with a number of famous faces.

The most essential records from rock's angry young men and women.

They knew how to pick: Six of their eight albums began with a hit single.

Johnny Cash's eldest daughter is also a four-time Grammy winner.

A child prodigy who turned into one of the most influential artists of his era.

Her attempt at being a singer in a group of equals predated David Bowie's Tin Machine by nearly a decade.

In the past 15 years the surviving group members have written and recorded a complete album's worth of new songs together.

There's some amazing talent that's no longer with us, but what a legacy they left behind.

It's time to stop drinking the haterade.

This was an opportunity to create a separate narrative – or to spectacularly fail.