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Bono and the Edge Reboot 'Spider-Man' | ARTICLE
Wide-awake at 2 a.m., Bono is riding in an SUV to a Las Vegas hotel — but he doesn't need a casino to make a huge, risky bet. After the $65 million Spider-Man: Turn Off the...
June 13, 2011 12:25 PM ET -
Deep Inside the Unreal World of Lady Gaga | ARTICLE
In a dark, airless studio control room on the third floor of a downtown-Manhattan office building, Lady Gaga is clutching a toy unicorn...
June 9, 2011 1:45 PM ET -
Back in the USA: U2's Victory Lap | ARTICLE
After U2 clattered through a sped-up, revamped version of "Magnificent" at the kickoff of the final leg of their 360° Tour, Bono smiled and offered an apology to the Denver crowd: "It's in development, that...
June 8, 2011 8:30 AM ET -
Eddie Vedder on Pearl Jam's 20th and His New Ukulele-Powered LP | ARTICLE
"I don't want to jinx it," Eddie Vedder says from a Los Angeles studio, taking a break from recording Pearl Jam's 10th studio album, which is coming together faster than the band expected. "But it's on!"...
May 31, 2011 12:25 PM ET -
U2, Live From Outer Space: Launching the Biggest Tour of All Time | ARTICLE
An Irish spaceship has landed in a Chicago football stadium, and its pilot is standing under a starless sky, barking mad orders into a microphone. "Take the astronauts' voices out," says Bono, his brogue echoing...
April 11, 2011 4:37 PM ET -
My Morning Jacket Find Killer New Groove on 'Circuital' | ARTICLE
As My Morning Jacket prepared to record "Holdin' on to Black Metal," the wildest track on their new album, Circuital (out this spring), frontman Jim James set the scene for his bandmates: "'I want it...
March 3, 2011 7:40 AM ET -
Mastodon Unleash the Beast Within: Rolling Stone's 2009 Feature | ARTICLE
Brent Hinds, frontman and lead guitarist for Mastodon, has reached the inevitable point in the evening when his speech starts to slur. A few hours back, during a listening session for his Atlanta metal band's...
March 1, 2011 4:05 PM ET -
Jack White, the Decade's Dirty Bluesman | ARTICLE
At the turn of the century, Jack White was thinking hard about the blues. "A hundred years had passed since the beginning of it," White says, "and it was an illusion in my head at...
February 2, 2011 2:13 PM ET -
Animal Collective's Panda Bear Reinvents His Sound on New Album | ARTICLE
It’s hardly obvious at first listen, but Animal Collective's Noah Lennox, a.k.a. Panda Bear, intended his third fourth solo record to be “a guitar attack.” “I wanted to do something simple and powerful,” he...
January 31, 2011 8:55 AM ET -
Jimmy Fallon's Big Adventure | ARTICLE
'This is happening," Jimmy Fallon tells himself, as he begins to panic. "This is really happening." He's all of 20 minutes into a brand-new...
January 20, 2011 2:15 PM ET -
Jimmy Fallon's Big Adventure | ARTICLE
"This is happening," Jimmy Fallon tells himself, as he begins to panic. "This is really happening." He's all of 20 minutes into a brand-new gig as a talk-show host, which suddenly seems to be going about as...
January 5, 2011 9:50 AM ET -
Billy Corgan, Rock God Interrupted: Rolling Stone's 2010 Feature | ARTICLE
Unless you count what he's done to his career, Billy Corgan has never attempted suicide. Until recently, there were plenty of mornings when he'd wake up to a stark choice: "Go eat breakfast, or go...
January 3, 2011 4:12 PM ET -
How My Chemical Romance Jump-Started Rock's Sci-Fi Future | ARTICLE
There's something strange about Gerard Way up there in the spotlight, something new. It's not just that the My Chemical Romance frontman has...
December 23, 2010 11:20 AM ET -
Bruce Springsteen: 'Darkness' Revisited | ARTICLE
The titles came to him first. They were evocative, bold, full of B-movie swagger: "Racing in the Street," "Badlands," "Streets of Fire." The hard...
November 25, 2010 10:55 AM ET -
Rolling Stone' Goes Back to 'The '90s' | ARTICLE
This article is taken from Rolling Stone's new book The '90s: The Inside Stories From the Decade that Rocked (© 2010 by Collins Design, an Imprint of HarperCollins Publishers). Click here to order the book,...
October 29, 2010 4:26 PM ET -
Jesse Eisenberg and Aaron Sorkin on Mark Zuckerberg, Misfits and 'The Social Network' | ARTICLE
The Social Network may be a film about real people and real events, but its star, Jesse Eisenberg, and screenwriter, Aaron Sorkin (The West Wing) are the first to say that it can't be taken as gospel....
October 15, 2010 6:01 PM ET -
Kanye Rises Again on New LP | ARTICLE
There are two things Kanye West would like the world to know right now: He's got a new album coming out soon, and...
September 16, 2010 3:05 PM ET -
Cee Lo 'Definitely' Plans One More Gnarls Barkley Disc | ARTICLE
Mere months after Rolling Stone named Gnarls Barkley's "Crazy" one of Best Songs of the 2000s, the singing half of to duo, Atlanta rapper-gone-crooner Cee Lo Green, now finds himself in contention for the best track of...
September 3, 2010 2:29 PM ET -
Leonardo DiCaprio Faces His Demons | ARTICLE
Last night, Leonardo DiCaprio dreamed of monsters. One by one, they came at him – "these ferocious, intense creatures" – and one by one,...
August 5, 2010 3:40 PM ET -
Rockers Unite for Haiti Benefits | ARTICLE
Jay-Z rapped alongside side Bono, the Edge and Rihanna; Coldplay's Chris Martin moonlighted as Beyoncé's piano player;
February 18, 2010 12:20 PM ET
