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The Malibu home studio where Tom Petty worked featured a sign reading “Beware: Cranky Hippie.” Every time Shelters frontman Chase Simpson arrived there, however, that’s hardly the man he encountered. “He was that great, genuine, loving person that you saw onstage,” says Simpson, who grew up with Petty’s stepson, Dylan, …

In 2014, Amber Giles, who DJ’s as Mija, was performing at Bonnaroo when Skrillex joined her onstage for a back-to-back 6 a.m. set. The gig went viral and her audience nearly doubled overnight. “My career was prematurely launched,” Giles, now 25, tells Rolling Stone. “I didn’t have a plan.” Before …