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¡Tré! | ALBUM REVIEW

Green Day's three-album run this year began with the exhilarating, all-aboard-for-funtime blast of ¡Uno!, and now it ends with a symphonic long goodbye. ¡Tré! picks up where its predecessor, ¡Dos!, left off: with...
December 6, 2012 4:40 PM ET
Eric Burdon and the Greenhornes | ALBUM REVIEW

On this EP, former Animals singer Eric Burdon – who seemed to have disappeared until Bruce Springsteen invited him onstage at SXSW in March – teams with Cincinnati garage-rock trio the Greenhornes for 17 minutes of raw,...
November 23, 2012 10:00 AM ET
GRRR! | ALBUM REVIEW

As a 50th-anniversary souvenir, the Stones have assembled a three-disc, 50-track compilation that is the best and most comprehensive collection of the band's high points available. "Doom and Gloom," one of two new songs here,...
November 13, 2012 12:20 AM ET
4th Street Feeling | ALBUM REVIEW

This album's dramatic opening track, "Kansas City," finds Melissa Etheridge recalling a youthful journey to freedom fueled by "Lucky Charms and Tic Tacs and Mom's amphetamines" in her "old man's Delta 88." Such autobiographical musing deepens Etheridge's...
September 4, 2012 12:05 AM ET
The Singer | ALBUM REVIEW

A rare combination of angelic delicacy and extraordinary power, Art Garfunkel's voice has lent reverie and wonder to songs for nearly 50 years. This two-CD set, lovingly curated by Garfunkel himself, collects 34 examples of...
August 28, 2012 12:20 AM ET
Adam Yauch on His Spiritual Journey: 'I Don't Care If Somebody Makes Fun of Me' | ARTICLE

This story is from the May 28th, 1998 issue of Rolling Stone. Along with his group, the Beastie Boys, Adam Yauch, 33, has grown up in public. Since their days of dodging the local authorities in...
May 4, 2012 6:55 PM ET
Older Than My Old Man Now | ALBUM REVIEW

Loudon Wainwright III’s 22nd album extends the folk-rock autobiography that's made his body of work so impressive. It's a saga filled with Oedipal tension (his dad was a famed journalist, his son is Rufus Wainwright) and fraught...
April 17, 2012 2:20 PM ET
Nothing’s Gonna Change the Way You Feel About Me Now | ALBUM REVIEW

A horn section lends Justin Townes Earle's fourth LP a Memphis-soul feel, which is less a departure than a shift in emphasis. Thematically, he continues his chronicle of a life balanced (barely) on the edge. Love is...
March 27, 2012 12:30 AM ET
Whitney Houston Opens Up About Her Marriage, the Pressures of Fame and More | ARTICLE

This story is from the June 10, 1993 issue of Rolling Stone. You're expecting her to float delicately into the room, but Whitney Houston strides in with a purposeful air. She's dressed way down in purple stretch pants and...
February 12, 2012 12:35 AM ET
The Blackbird Diaries | ALBUM REVIEW

Recorded during a five-day sprint in Nashville, the Blackbird Diaries offers a rawer portrait of Dave Stewart - the producer, former Eurthymic and current member of Superheavy, with Mick Jagger - than you're likely ever to have heard. The...
September 14, 2011 2:02 PM ET
Black and White America | ALBUM REVIEW

From the title track, which references the insults endured by his interracial parents in the Sixties, to its colorblind blend of rock, soul and pop, Lenny Kravitz makes race the central theme of his ninth album. Despite big ideas, he deftly keeps the...
August 30, 2011 12:20 AM ET
Paul McCartney on 'Beatles 1,' Losing Linda and Being in New York on September 11th | ARTICLE

As Paul McCartney strolls along Manhattan's Sixth Avenue on a spectacular fall day, he leaves a trail of stunned people in his wake. Some just stop dead in their tracks and stare slack-jawed as he walks...
June 17, 2011 5:40 PM ET
Prince Reclaims His Crown | ARTICLE

"Hammering! That's the word. That's it!" Prince folds over in laughter and stamps his high-heel boots on the floor. Those heels, as it happens, are clear plastic, and lights twinkle within them. It's a perfect metaphor...
June 7, 2011 8:30 AM ET
Union Town (EP) | ALBUM REVIEW

Inspired by protests against Wisconsin governor Scott Walker's war on collective bargaining, Tom Morello recorded this bracing benefit EP. Veering from acoustic strumming to searing electric solos, and calling on comrades like the MC5's Wayne Kramer, Morello...
June 7, 2011 12:00 AM ET
Ukelele Songs | ALBUM REVIEW

The ukulele doesn't allow for the widest range of expression, which makes it a challenging foil for Eddie Vedder, who never met a feeling he couldn't drive through a wall. But this uke-suffused album stands up...
May 31, 2011 12:00 AM ET
Give Till It's Gone | ALBUM REVIEW

The 10th album from slide-guitar master and jam-band darling Ben Harper is his most searingly personal album, an expression, no doubt, of the recent implosion of his marriage to actress Laura Dern. Even the quietest moments on...
May 17, 2011 12:30 AM ET
The Complete Recordings | ALBUM REVIEW

This remastered two-disc collection brings an unprecedented level of clarity, intimacy and immediacy to immortal Thirties blues recordings that laid a blueprint for everyone from Eric Clapton to Jack White. No new songs have emerged....
May 17, 2011 12:15 AM ET
Pink Floyd Announce Massive Reissue Project | ARTICLE

Pink Floyd fans should be prepared for an exciting few months: The band announced yesterday that they are launching "Why Pink Floyd…?", a massive reissue campaign meant to deepen and expand the band's extraordinary musical legacy....
May 11, 2011 4:05 PM ET
George Harrison Gets Back: Rolling Stone's 1987 Cover Story | ARTICLE

"I didn't think it was that stupid," mutters a puzzled George Harrison during a halt in a video shoot, as a battery of eight Warner Bros. Records employees hastens to reassure him. The mood in...
February 25, 2011 2:45 PM ET
The Complete Elvis Presley Masters | ALBUM REVIEW

If ever a catalog required smart curating, Elvis Presley's does. There are good examples of that: The Complete 50's Masters, The Essential 60's Masters and The Essential 70's Masters each tell stories about different aspects of the...
October 26, 2010 12:00 AM ET