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Ben Hoffman: The Most Anxious Man on TV | ARTICLE

"I don't have stage fright, I have life fright," says comedian Ben Hoffman over coffee in Los Angeles; except he is not drinking coffee today because, he says, "My idiot parents got me an espresso machine for...
March 14, 2013 3:05 PM ET
Vampire Weekend on Their Adventurous New Album | ARTICLE

There's a whisper of relief in Ezra Koenig's voice as the singer-guitarist says that Vampire Weekend's third album is almost complete after more than 20 months of writing and recording. "Sometimes we thought maybe we were done,"...
January 16, 2013 8:00 AM ET
Hot Scene: The Return to Laurel Canyon | ARTICLE

Dive into Laurel Canyon — click above for a tour of the home of Cali rock by the Entrance Band The winding steps that climb from Laurel Canyon Boulevard to Jonathan Wilson's hillside house might as well be...
August 28, 2012 3:06 PM ET
Paramore's Hayley Williams on Guns, Girl Groups and Great Bands | ARTICLE

In RS1047, contributing editor Jenny Eliscu spoke to Paramore frontwoman Hayley Williams about lyrical inspiration, Williams' evolving taste ('NSync to New Found Glory) and how to properly soundtrack a make-out session. Here are some outtakes from...
August 28, 2012 3:06 PM ET
Amy Winehouse: 1983 - 2011 | ARTICLE

This story is from the August 18th, 2011 issue of Rolling Stone. Sitting in a popular Miami diner with rain pouring down outside, Amy Winehouse and her new husband, Blake Fielder-Civil, had plenty of reasons to celebrate. "Rehab"...
July 23, 2012 11:50 AM ET
Mumford and Sons, Magnetic Zeroes to Play Free Show in Austin | ARTICLE

Nearly a year after embarking on a unique week-long tour via railroad from San Francisco to New Orleans, Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeroes, Mumford and Sons and Old Crow Medicine Show will celebrate the premiere screening...
March 7, 2012 2:55 PM ET
Leslie Feist's California Dream | ARTICLE

Wrapped in a hotel bathrobe and sipping red wine, Leslie Feist brandishes a tiger finger puppet and makes it say, "Hi, I am...
October 13, 2011 2:55 PM ET
Amy Winehouse's Death: A Troubled Star Gone Too Soon | ARTICLE

Amy Winehouse, the Grammy-winning British retro-soul singer whose remarkable musical achievements were often overshadowed by her tumultuous personal life, was found dead at her home in the Camden section of London on July 23rd. Though police were...
July 24, 2011 7:55 PM ET
The Diva and Her Demons: Rolling Stone's 2007 Amy Winehouse Cover Story | ARTICLE

Alongside the world's tallest free-standing tower, one of the world's tiniest pop stars is crouched next to a garbage pail, collecting a pile of eyeliner pencils and mascara tubes between her hands. While Amy Winehouse wanders...
July 23, 2011 2:36 PM ET
Band to Watch: Little Dragon Charms With Dreamy Electro-Pop | ARTICLE

Click here to listen to Little Dragon's "Ritual Union" and "Nightlight" Who: Swedish electro-soul foursome led by Japanese-Swedish singer Yukimi Nagano, whose effortlessly slinky R&B...
June 28, 2011 5:40 PM ET
Bakesale (Reissue) | ALBUM REVIEW

By the time Sebadoh released their fifth album in 1994, Lou Barlow was a low-fi hero – a man who buried his melodies under...
June 21, 2011 12:00 AM ET
"Paranoid Android" | SONG REVIEW

Weezer don't flex their art-rock muscles often, so it's understandable they'd want to cover Radiohead's gloom anthem. At the end of their note-perfect rendition — recorded as a Web-only lark — someone says,...
June 13, 2011 7:35 AM ET
Arabia Mountain | ALBUM REVIEW

You know that mixture of giddiness and dread you get right after you drop acid? On their sixth studio LP, these notoriously hard-partying psych rockers musically approximate the feeling. "Going on a future quest, surf the...
June 7, 2011 12:15 AM ET
Mumford & Sons Play High-Spirited Show in Marfa, Texas | ARTICLE

The Railroad Revival Tour – a six-date jaunt on a string of vintage Amtrak cars traveling from Oakland, California to New Orleans – pulled into the 2,000-person town of Marfa, Texas on Sunday for an outdoor gig...
April 26, 2011 11:35 AM ET
Britney Spears Pleases Herself: Rolling Stone's 2002 Cover Story | ARTICLE

Do you mind if I put on my pajamas?" Britney Spears asks, heading toward the bedroom of her suite at Manhattan's Trump Plaza. It's four o'clock in the afternoon, and her plans for the remainder of the...
March 29, 2011 1:00 PM ET
Britney Spears Returns: Rolling Stone's 2008 Cover Story | ARTICLE

There's an understanding among those who know Britney well: When she's blond, she's happy. When she's brunette, she's sad. When she's pink, she's crazy. Her hair was back to glowing and golden this fall, when...
March 22, 2011 12:19 PM ET
Britney Spears Breaks Just Like a Little Girl: Rolling Stone's 2001 Cover Story | ARTICLE

If there were such a thing as "new-house smell." Britney Spears' Hollywood Hills home would reek of it. At the top of a steep driveway, evidence of recent construction — two-by-fours, bits of concrete —...
March 21, 2011 5:18 PM ET
The Wild, the Stupid, the 'Jersey Shore' Shuffle: Rolling Stone's 2010 Feature | ARTICLE

In the parking lot of a Chili's in Edison, New Jersey, a small crowd is congregating, staring through the windows at Nicole "Snooki" Polizzi. The 22-year-old Jersey Shore star lives in Poughkeepsie, New York, but...
February 22, 2011 3:00 PM ET
Underneath the Pine | ALBUM REVIEW

Last year, the debut from Toro y Moi (real name: Chaz Bundick) tipped him as one of the leading purveyors of "chillwave" — woozy, low-fi, sample-based electronic music for a post-Animal Collective generation. But for his follow-up,...
February 22, 2011 12:20 AM ET
The White Stripes, 2002 People of the Year | ARTICLE

White Blood Cells, the album that blasted the White Stripes out of Detroit's garage-rock underground, cost $4,000 to record. Quite a bargain, considering the results: Since it came out in the summer of 2001, the disc...
February 2, 2011 2:15 PM ET