News Features
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Beyoncé grabbed the ring, My Morning Jacket swung for the bleachers, Lil Wayne cracked up and Coldplay ruled the world
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TV on the Radio partied as the world collapsed, Dylan hit the vaults, Lil Wayne topped hip-hop and Metallica thundered back
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COVER Brad Pitt: The Rolling Stone Interview
The actor on fame, life with six kids and how playing an old man made him grow up
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COVER Britney Returns
A year after her very public meltdown, Britney is back to work and out of trouble. But what has the comeback cost her?
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Behind the Britney Story: A Conversation With Writer Jenny Eliscu
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COVER The Hot List
From a futuristic pop star to Ambien tripping, the 70 hottest bands, actors, drugs, movies of '08 and beyond
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Hot Actor: Q&A; With "Twilight" Star Robert Pattinson
"There's only so much adoration you can take"
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COVER The Top 12 DVDs of 2008
Pop in these 12 Blu-ray beauties, which also look good on standard DVD (I said good, not ridiculous good), and get yourself rocked
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Hot Sci-Fi Beyonce: A Q&A; With Janelle Monae
Atlanta soul singer with an Elvis pompadour and props from Prince and Diddy talks evil cyborgs and her hair machine
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Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Preps Satellite Museum in New York
Annex focuses on Big Apple rock, from CBGB's urinal to Bruce's Chevy
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Elvis Costello Talks Music on Cable
Police, Elton, many more stop by Costello's new Sundance Channel Show
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Hot Scene: The Return to Laurel Canyon
The former L.A. home base of Joni Mitchell and Jackson Browne is now a hub to a new wave of hippie rockers
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The Fall Out Boy singer on his first bong hit and fighting off stage fright
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Research Shows: Troubled Times Call for Sober Songs
A new study compares the music we like to the era in which we live
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Ticket Battle Shakes Music Biz
Ticketmaster, Live Nation vie to fill power vacuum left by labels
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COVER The 100 Greatest Singers of All Time
Our blue-ribbon panel of 179 experts ranks music's finest vocalists
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COVER What Makes a Great Singer?
By Jonathan Lethem
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Zeppelin Members Seek New Singer
Remaining three plan possible album and tour without Robert Plant
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The Deep Shallowness of Marc Jacobs
With his famously manic-obsessive personality (drugs! drama!) and gift for mixing high fashion with low culture, Marc Jacobs built a global style empire. Now he has embarked on his most ambitious redesign yet: himself
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Rock Albums Lead Fall Season, But Record Biz Still Struggles
Big discs from G n' R, AC/DC, Killers. Plus: Walmart to shrink shelf space
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Neil Young Opens Up the Vaults With Crazy Horse Disc, Box Set
Plus: Hits-packed tour rolls on; classic solo concert gets released
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The teenage star on her music idols, dealing with hecklers and jamming with Def Leppard
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Hail to the Chiefs: Buzz Band Returns
The Kaiser Chiefs craft intense, hooky disc with a little help from Mark Ronson and Lily Allen
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Smashing Pumpkins: The Essential Album Guide
Twenty years of rock from alternative nation's most anthemic outcasts.
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Noel Gallagher: "You Have To See Us in a League With the Rolling Stones"
On the eve of Oasis' tour with Ryan Adams, the songwriter talks drugs, violence and the secret to his success
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Satellite Radio Listeners Rankled By XM-Sirius Merger
Subscribers cry foul over dropped stations as programmers streamline the new service
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"Our Fans Were More Metal Than We Were"
Rob Zombie looks back on White Zombie, the old weird MTV and his new box set
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Inside the Rockers Studio: Elvis Costello's "Spectacle"
On the set of the rocker's new TV show with the Police, Jenny Lewis and more
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The most expensive memorabilia in music, from Kurt Cobain's sweaters to B. B. King's guitar