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'Big Easy Express' Captures Mumford & Sons, Edward Sharpe on Railroad Revival Tour | ARTICLE

In the opening scene of Big Easy Express, Jade Castrinos, singer for folk troubadours Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros, is seen frolicking between train cars. The setting is last spring's Railroad Revival Tour, a multi-day...
June 25, 2012 10:00 AM ET
Wayne Coyne on Erykah Badu: 'I Knew She Was an Unpredictable Freak' | ARTICLE

The Flaming Lips and Heady Fwends, the experimental rock crew's collaborative album featuring everyone from Bon Iver and My Morning Jacket's Jim James to Ke$ha and Nick Cave, was first released to limited retailers as part...
June 22, 2012 1:20 PM ET
Flaming Lips Nearly Done With New Studio Album | ARTICLE

Wayne Coyne says the Flaming Lips are nearly finished recording their new studio album, a collection of brand-new material the Oklahoma psych rockers have been touching up at a studio in Buffalo, New York and hope...
June 21, 2012 5:00 PM ET
Snooki and JWoww Play 'Would You Rather?' | ARTICLE

Nicole "Snooki" Polizzi and Jenni "JWoww" Farley have only been famous for two-and-a-half years. But in the world of reality TV, that's practically a lifetime. Now, after six seasons of MTV's Jersey Shore, Snooki and JWoww are...
June 21, 2012 11:00 AM ET
Album Premiere: The Offspring Stretch Out on 'Days Go By' | ARTICLE

On their earliest recordings, the Offspring worried about varying genres within a single album. But now, as frontman Dexter Holland tells Rolling Stone, checking in by phone from Amsterdam, the Orange County punk rockers have no problem...
June 19, 2012 12:00 PM ET
'America's Got Talent' Recap: One Last Chance | ARTICLE

After what feels like several months of auditions (in reality it's been just over one), on Monday night we finally reached the last night of the audition process for America's Got Talent. Whereas all of the previous...
June 19, 2012 9:55 AM ET
Aerosmith Kick Off Global Warming Tour in Minneapolis | ARTICLE

It was an image that less than a year ago would have seemed implausible: Steven Tyler and Joe Perry, or the "toxic twins," as Tyler had dubbed himself and the longtime guitarist with whom he has had...
June 17, 2012 9:41 AM ET
'America's Got Talent' Recap: Got the World on a String | ARTICLE

We'd figured that after a month of auditions for America's Got Talent, we’d be on to the competition by now. But alas, the quest to find "talent" continues. Apparently judges Howard Stern, Sharon Osbourne, Howie Mandel, and...
June 13, 2012 9:40 AM ET
Smashing Pumpkins Throw 'Oceania' Party on Lake Michigan | ARTICLE

"If you get seasick, I want to know if it's the music," Billy Corgan deadpanned to a small group of friends, family and acquaintances gathered Tuesday evening aboard a yacht floating in Lake Michigan, just off the...
June 13, 2012 9:35 AM ET
Ariel Pink Explores the California Sound With 'Mature Themes' | ARTICLE

Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti acknowledge that they reached "a new place," commercially speaking, with their 2012 LP Before Today, but they also say that the recording sessions were miserable, bogged down by time constraints and artistic frustration....
June 12, 2012 1:00 PM ET
Steve Aoki and Lil Jon Bond Over Beats, Board Games | ARTICLE

Last Christmas, Steve Aoki was prepping for a family ski trip to Mammoth Mountain in California when the 34-year-old DJ got an unexpected call from his close friend, the rapper-producer Lil Jon. As it turned out, both...
June 6, 2012 5:30 PM ET
'America's Got Talent' Recap: The Revolution Continues | ARTICLE

With Monday night's teaser claiming Tuesday's episode of America's Got Talent would include the "most dangerous act ever performed on the show," tuning in was a no-brainer. Naturally we were excited to see what day two of...
June 6, 2012 9:55 AM ET
Album Premiere: SpaceGhostPurrp, 'Mysterious Phonk: Chronicles of SpaceGhostPurrp' | ARTICLE

SpaceGhostPurrp prefers to think of Mysterious Phonk: Chronicles of SpaceGhostPurrp – out on June 12th, but availalbe to stream exclusively on RollingStone.com below – as more of a thank you to his fans than a full-fledged debut LP. It's...
June 6, 2012 8:00 AM ET
Q&A: David Guetta on Leading EDM's American Takeover | ARTICLE

David Guetta insists on sharing his salad. It's a windy Memorial Day in Las Vegas, and the French DJ-producer is relaxing in his expansive suite at the Encore hotel. Below sits the posh Encore Beach Club pool,...
June 5, 2012 3:00 PM ET
'America's Got Talent' Recap: Go Big or Go Home | ARTICLE

And the auditions continue. As is the case with most reality-based talent competitions, the process of narrowing down the crop of contestants is a long, drawn-out process. But it's hardly surprising: auditions equal more episodes, which equals...
June 5, 2012 10:40 AM ET
Song Premiere: Harry Shearer's 'Celebrity Booze Endorser' feat. Fountains of Wayne | ARTICLE

Click to listen to Harry Shearer's 'Celebrity Booze Endorser feat. Fountains of Wayne' For his new album of satirical music, Harry Shearer took the...
June 4, 2012 8:00 AM ET
Donald Fagen's Dukes of September Ready Second Tour of R&B Covers | ARTICLE

In 2010, while touring with the supergroup the Dukes of September Rhythm Revue alongside Steely Dan's Donald Fagen and iconic blue-eyed soul man Boz Scaggs, singer Michael McDonald performed "Don't Mess Up a Good Thing," a...
May 31, 2012 12:15 PM ET
David Guetta, Skrillex and More Kick Off EDM High Season in Vegas | ARTICLE

In just over a week's time, thousands of dance-hungry revelers will descend upon Las Vegas' Motor Speedway for the Electric Daisy Carnival, one of the world's largest electronic dance music festivals. A host of star DJs –...
May 29, 2012 4:45 PM ET
'America's Got Talent' Recap: Hate Myself for Loving You | ARTICLE

Monday night's America's Got Talent, the first of two days of auditions in New York, broke an unspoken code of conduct for reality-based talent competitions: the obscenely bad acts were largely ignored. Was it a smart move...
May 23, 2012 10:30 AM ET
Reggie Watts: 'I Feel That I Need to Make Something More Substantial' | ARTICLE

It's soundcheck time at the Vic Theater in Chicago and Reggie Watts is making weird, gurgling noises into the microphone. Suddenly, he busts into the Motown hit "Papa Was a Rolling Stone" – a typically unorthodox moment...
May 22, 2012 4:45 PM ET