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  • Hank Williams Jr.: 'President Obama Hates America'

    Hank Williams Jr.: 'President Obama Hates America' | ARTICLE

    Hank Williams Jr. received some of the biggest publicity of his career last October, when he appeared on Fox & Friends criticizing a golf game between President Obama and House Speaker John A. Boehner. "It'd be like...

    July 11, 2012 11:45 AM ET
  • Q&A: Skrillex on the Future of Dance Music and Pitfalls of Fame

    Q&A: Skrillex on the Future of Dance Music and Pitfalls of Fame | ARTICLE

    Few artists are busier this summer than Skrillex, who is taking his loud, full-sensory-overload live show across giant venues from San Francisco's Golden Gate Park to New York's Randalls Island. When we caught up with the DJ...

    July 10, 2012 1:15 PM ET
  • Dave Matthews Band Debut 'Riff' on Tour

    Dave Matthews Band Debut 'Riff' on Tour | VIDEO

    On Tuesday in Darien Center, New York, Dave Matthews Band played their new song "The Riff" for the fourth show in a row. The sixth track from their upcoming album Away From The...

    July 5, 2012 5:11 PM ET
  • Q&A: The Avett Brothers' Scott Avett on Confronting Tragedy for 'The Carpenter'

    Q&A: The Avett Brothers' Scott Avett on Confronting Tragedy for 'The Carpenter' | ARTICLE

    "We're very excited," Scott Avett says about the Avett Brothers' seventh album, The Carpenter, set for release on September 11th. In January 2011, the band started recording a total of 24 songs in Asheville, North Carolina, for...

    June 27, 2012 4:35 PM ET
  • Rolling Stones Debut New 50th Anniversary Tongue Logo

    Rolling Stones Debut New 50th Anniversary Tongue Logo | ARTICLE

    "It's quite amazing when you think about it," Mick Jagger told Rolling Stone late last year, discussing the Rolling Stones' 50th anniversary. In honor of the occasion, the band asked artist Shepard Fairey to update their...

    June 27, 2012 3:50 PM ET
  • Mike Love Books Beach Boys Shows Without Brian Wilson

    Mike Love Books Beach Boys Shows Without Brian Wilson | ARTICLE

    The Beach Boys are in the middle of their 50th anniversary reunion tour, stunning crowds from New Orleans to New York – on Sunday night at New York's Jones Beach, they played a joyous 47-song set...

    June 26, 2012 8:50 AM ET
  • Keith Richards Talks Joint Recordings With Jack White

    Keith Richards Talks Joint Recordings With Jack White | ARTICLE

    Keith Richards and Jack White have been friends for years, but in 2009 they collaborated professionally, spending time together in a recording studio. "I enjoy working with Jack," Richards told Rolling Stone at the time....

    June 25, 2012 1:10 PM ET
  • Q&A: Patrick Carney on the Black Keys' Summer Tour, Van Halen and Dance Music

    Q&A: Patrick Carney on the Black Keys' Summer Tour, Van Halen and Dance Music | ARTICLE

    "We're playing better than we have since 2010," Black Keys drummer Patrick Carney tells Rolling Stone in the middle of the band's summer tour. "When you play a song 60 times a year, you fuck around with...

    June 22, 2012 10:00 AM ET
  • The Beach Boys' Brian Wilson: 'I Don't Think I Look or Act 70'

    The Beach Boys' Brian Wilson: 'I Don't Think I Look or Act 70' | ARTICLE

    Brian Wilson turned 70 yesterday, but he's busier than ever. He's currently zig-zagging across the country on the reunited Beach Boys' world tour, and the band just released their first album in two decades. So how...

    June 21, 2012 12:00 PM ET
  • Animal Collective on Their 'Aggressive, Relentless' New Album

    Animal Collective on Their 'Aggressive, Relentless' New Album | ARTICLE

    Animal Collective's blissed-out 2009 album, Merriweather Post Pavilion, made them the indie kings of 21st-century psychedelia – but the band wouldn't dream of repeating itself on the follow-up. "For better or for worse,...

    June 21, 2012 9:45 AM ET
  • Rolling Stones Gather to Plot 50th Anniversary Bash

    Rolling Stones Gather to Plot 50th Anniversary Bash | ARTICLE

    The Rolling Stones are strongly considering at least one live concert later this year to mark their 50th anniversary, Stones insiders tell Rolling Stone. Sources add that the band is still considering a tour in 2013....

    June 19, 2012 3:00 PM ET
  • Questlove: New D'Angelo Album Will Be 'A Radical 180 Turn'

    Questlove: New D'Angelo Album Will Be 'A Radical 180 Turn' | ARTICLE

    Questlove remembers the moment he called D'Angelo and asked him to make his first U.S. concert appearance in 12 years on June 9th, for the drummer's late-night Super Jam at Bonnaroo. "I said, 'It will be...

    June 18, 2012 1:35 PM ET
  • Little Richard Tears Through Raucous Set in Washington, D.C.

    Little Richard Tears Through Raucous Set in Washington, D.C. | ARTICLE

    Sitting on a golden throne at his piano last night at Washington, D.C.’s Howard Theatre, Little Richard began his set by telling the crowd he was in pain. "I got sick and I had surgery," he...

    June 17, 2012 4:26 PM ET
  • Paul Simon Makes Surprise Appearance at Jerry Douglas' New York Show

    Paul Simon Makes Surprise Appearance at Jerry Douglas' New York Show | ARTICLE

    Dobro master Jerry Douglas was midway through his set at New York's tiny B.B. King Blues Club on Friday night, when he stopped to introduce "a very well-known friend of mine. I hope he's here." The fellow, it...

    June 16, 2012 11:25 AM ET
  • Stones Gather To Plot 50th Bash

    Stones Gather To Plot 50th Bash | ARTICLE

    The Rolling Stones are strongly considering at least one live concert later this year to mark their 50th anniversary, Stones insiders tell Rolling...

    June 7, 2012 12:00 PM ET
  • Time as We Know It: The Songs of Jerry Jeff Walker

    Time as We Know It: The Songs of Jerry Jeff Walker | ALBUM REVIEW

    Todd Snider credits his transformation into stoner-folk troubadour to a Jerry Jeff Walker show he saw at 19. This covers LP pays tribute on 14 narrative-heavy tracks, from the jailhouse ballad "Mr. Bojangles" to the beer-soaked "Takin'...

    June 4, 2012 4:35 PM ET
  • Jack White Plays Explosive New York Residency

    Jack White Plays Explosive New York Residency | ARTICLE

    "There's a lot of dangerous stuff going on," Jack White told Rolling Stone recently of his new live show. "The crowd can smell that." He delivered on that promise during his two-night stand at Roseland Ballroom...

    May 23, 2012 4:00 PM ET
  • Keith Richards Won't Join Mick Jagger on 'Saturday Night Live'

    Keith Richards Won't Join Mick Jagger on 'Saturday Night Live' | ARTICLE

    When NBC announced that Mick Jagger would host and perform on the May 19th season finale of Saturday Night Live, fans wondered whether the Rolling Stones would use the platform to stage their first live performance...

    May 14, 2012 12:45 PM ET
  • Eric Church: Boozin' and Cruisin' With Country's Rowdiest Star

    Eric Church: Boozin' and Cruisin' With Country's Rowdiest Star | ARTICLE

    On a hot April afternoon in Nashville, Eric Church rolls his four-wheeler down a ramp from his black Chevy Silverado and slips on camouflage...

    May 10, 2012 5:15 PM ET
  • The Rolling Stones are Opening their Vaults

    The Rolling Stones are Opening their Vaults | ARTICLE

    The bad news? The Rolling Stones aren't touring this year to celebrate their 50th anniversary. The good news? The band has begun rolling...

    April 26, 2012 2:15 PM ET