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Inside 'Spring Breakers,' the Most Debauched Movie of the Year | ARTICLE

When news first started trickling out about Spring Breakers – the gleefully debauched new movie about four sexy small-town coeds on a violent crime spree, starring Selena Gomez and Vanessa Hudgens and directed by indie provocateur...
March 15, 2013 8:00 AM ET
Rihanna: Crazy in Love | ARTICLE

So a superfamous pop star walks into a comedy club . . . Actually, "walks" isn't quite right. Rihanna more glides. She slips...
February 14, 2013 1:20 PM ET
Q&A: Beck's Book | ARTICLE

Since his last studio album, in 2008, Beck has entertained himself by confounding all expectations – from oddball one-off studio collaborations (with
December 20, 2012 12:00 PM ET
A League of His Own: Tom Hanks, American Icon | ARTICLE

Tom Hanks has a problem with his dressing room. The two-time Oscar winner and generally agreed-upon national treasure has just arrived backstage at UCLA's Freud Playhouse, dragging a duffel bag in each hand with his wife, Rita Wilson,...
December 10, 2012 11:30 AM ET
Robert De Niro's Oscar 'Playbook' | ARTICLE

It takes approximately four minutes for Robert De Niro to make his first Robert De Niro face. You know the one. Forehead crinkled, eyes squeezed shut, corners of his mouth turned down, laughing-grimacing like the visual average...
November 26, 2012 11:00 AM ET
Marc Maron Regrets and Whines and Kvetches and Complains | ARTICLE

"I'm losing my mind," Marc Maron says. "That's good for you, right?" Maron – longtime comic road warrior, ex-lefty rabble rouser, former addict, 13 years sober, and one of the darkest, funniest, most influential figures in comedy...
October 12, 2012 1:00 PM ET
Justin Bieber, Mannish Boy: The 2012 Cover Story | ARTICLE

The Calabasas Country Club is a good place for a celebrity who doesn't want to be seen: exclusive enough to have a guard and...
August 2, 2012 12:00 PM ET
The Rise of Deadmau5 | ARTICLE

I've never been on one this new before," says Joel Zimmerman, as he climbs aboard the chatered jet waiting for him on a...
July 5, 2012 1:55 PM ET
The Secret Life of Transgender Rocker Tom Gabel | ARTICLE

On a warm Friday evening at the end of March, the artist soon to be formerly known as Tommy Gabel is walking through Manhattan on his way to meet one of his biggest fans, a 23-year-old woman...
May 31, 2012 11:05 AM ET
Jennifer Lawrence: America's Kick-Ass Sweetheart | ARTICLE

'Dude!" Says Jennifer Lawrence into her cellphone. "I'm lost as fuck! I've been driving around for, like, 10 minutes. Where the hell is...
April 12, 2012 12:10 PM ET
Questlove, the Coolest Man on Late Night, Is Still Nervous Around Girls | ARTICLE

The following is an excerpt of the Questlove feature in the December 26th, 2011 issue of Rolling Stone, on stands December 9th. Everyone has a favorite Questlove-is-amazing story. Erykah Badu remembers the time he was sick as a...
December 7, 2011 11:00 AM ET
Damon Albarn Crafts a Cross-Cultural LP in the Congo | ARTICLE

On Damon Albarn's fifth day in Africa, things were looking up. The Gorillaz and Blur leader was in downtown Kinshasa, the capital of the Democratic Republic of Congo, spearheading an ambitious weeklong collaboration between Congolese musicians and...
November 14, 2011 11:00 AM ET
Villas, Private Jets and Paris Hilton: Rolling in Ibiza With David Guetta | ARTICLE

The worst thing about flying to Ibiza on David Guetta's private jet is that the ceiling is a little low, so when you need to use the facilities after two glasses of champagne, you have to duck...
November 3, 2011 12:30 PM ET
Eminem on the Road Back From Hell | ARTICLE

Upon arriving at Eminem's recording studio – an anonymous gray hit factory in suburban Detroit – a first-time visitor will be met at his car by a large, possibly armed man named Big 8, who will have...
October 17, 2011 3:55 PM ET
Mylo Xyloto | ALBUM REVIEW

In the three years since Coldplay's last album, the world's problems have gotten a little more urgent. A cratering economy, riots from Tahrir to Tottenham, the prolonged ubiquity of the Kardashians – these are things that...
October 17, 2011 11:15 AM ET
The Solitary Fame of Bon Iver's Justin Vernon | ARTICLE

As you drive north from Milwaukee on 1-94, past the Wisconsin Dells, the landscape starts to change. Rolling pastureland gives way to craggy hills, the leaves red and autumnal even in May. This is the land the...
June 23, 2011 10:30 AM ET
Zach Galifianakis, Reluctant Superstar: The Rolling Stone Cover Story | ARTICLE

So there's Zach Galifianakis, wearing a tuxedo at a fancy afterparty in the backyard of the French ambassador's house. He just came from the...
June 23, 2011 8:30 AM ET
Four Days of Mindblowing Music at Bonnaroo Wraps With the Strokes, Robyn, Robert Plant | BLOG ENTRY

As the sun was setting on the fourth and final day of Bonnaroo, Strokes singer Julian Casablancas faced a dilemma. Even at dusk, the temperature was still in the 90s – but the leather jacket he was...
June 13, 2011 11:15 AM ET
Return of the Hip-Hop King: Riding With Lil Wayne as He Reclaims His Crown | ARTICLE

The processing room at the New York City Correctional Institution for Men is about as depressing as you'd expect. Broken pay phone, roachy floors, harsh fluorescent lights. There's a rusty old vending machine against one wall, and...
May 16, 2011 12:00 PM ET
Rihanna, Queen of Pain: Sexting, Bad Boys, and Her Attraction to the Dark Side | ARTICLE

They were looking for Megan Fox. Three paparazzi, loitering in the hills high above Los Angeles. They parked here this morning, hoping to catch Fox,...
April 14, 2011 7:05 AM ET