Cover Story

Megan Fox Draws Blood

Hollywood's hottest starlet is a violent-tempered, insecure and self-destructive control freak, and she isn't about to put up with any of your crap.
By Erik Hedegaard

Video: On set at Megan Fox's steamy cover shoot.
Exclusive Photos: Pics from Fox's session with Mark Seliger only available on RollingStone.com.
Photos: Megan Fox's sexiest moments onscreen and off.
Photos: Leading ladies on the cover of Rolling Stone.
Photos: The sexiest covers in Rolling Stone history.
Video: Jennifer's Body writer Diablo Cody stops by for an episode of Off the Cuff With Peter Travers.
Performance: Panic! at the Disco play their soundtrack cut "New Perspective" in our studio.

NATIONAL AFFAIRS

The GOP's Lie Machine

Republican operatives are running a secret campaign to kill health care reform — and they're using pages from Karl Rove's old playbook. By Tim Dickinson

Q&A: Contributing editor Tim Dickinson chats with the leader of the Birther movement.
Investigation: Internal documents that detail how top conservative operatives orchestrate the so-called populist opposition to Obama.

FEATURES

Merle Haggard: The Fighter

He was raised in a boxcar and turned 21 in San Quentin. Then he became one of country music's greatest stars. The life and times of an American outlaw. By Jason Fine

Photos: From holding his first guitar to "cheap thrills and bad decisions," see the legend through the years.

Rock & Roll

Fall Album Preview

From Weezy to Weezer, a first look at the season's hottest records.

Performance: Say Anything, the Avett Brothers and Wolfmother perform new tunes.
Listen: A first listen to Ben Gibbard and Jay Farrar's Jack Kerouac project, cuts from Paramore's new LP and Rosanne Cash's duets with Bruce Springsteen and Jeff Tweedy.
Video: Adam Lambert, the Flaming Lips' Wayne Coyne and Clipse presenting exclusive peeks at their upcoming discs and the Cameron Crowe-directed clip for Pearl Jam's Backspacer.

Hall of Fame Little Steven's E Street memories

Coming Soon Live: Pics and a report from Bruce's final Giants Stadium concerts, starting September 29th.
Video: Clarence Clemons answers your Twitter questions.
Video: Highlights from Little Steven's career.

Profile Yoko Ono on working with her son, Sean Lennon, to bring back the Plastic Ono Band.

Q&A Paramore singer Hayley Williams on what Gwen Stefani taught her.

Industry Beatles reissues boost retailers

Video Games Courtney Love plots suit over Kurt Cobain's use in Guitar Hero 5. Plus: two new Nirvana releases for the fall.

FALL FASHION PREVIEW

The Bombshell and the Beat

Pete Yorn and Scarlett Johansson channel Serge Gainsbourg and Brigitte Bardot while modeling the hottest styles of the season. Photos by Max Vadukul

Photos: Bonus pics of the new singing partners wearing this fall's fashions.

TV

'Runway' Returns

Can Project Runway survive without its freak factor?
By Rob Sheffield

SPORTS

NFL Preview

Brett Favre's Vikings will be the team you love to hate.
By Matt Taibbi

RECORDS

Pearl Jam

Backspacer is the band's fastest, punkiest disc yet.

PLUS: Jay-Z, Miranda Lambert, Madonna, The Drums, Living Colour, Sean Kingston, Alice in Chains, the Cribs, Mika, Sliimy, AFI, Yoko Ono Plastic Ono Band, Paramore, Cariad Harmon, the Avett Brothers, the Bottle Rockets, Hymns, J. Tillman and a reissue from Big Star.

Fricke's Picks: Vince Taylor, Roy Buchanan

MOVIES

'The Informant!'

Matt Damon mesmerizes as a wack-job whistle-blower.

PLUS: Jennifer's Body, The Boys Are Back, Bright Star and Crude.

Off the Cuff with Gossip Girl's Zuzanna Szadkowski: RS' resident Gossip Girl excpert meets Blair Waldorf's faithful maid Dorota, who treats Travers like Chuck Bass and scolds him in Polish.

The Travers Take: More movie news and reviews from our movie critic

Travers Hits Twitter: Tap in for daily Twitter updates — juicy interview tidbits and knee-jerk reviews — from our film critic

ONLINE EXCLUSIVES

Austin City Limits: Photos, video and reports from the end-of-summer fest in Texas with the Dave Matthews Band, Kings of Leon and Them Crooked Vultures.

Mason Jennings Live at Rolling Stone The singer-songwriter performs "The Field" and "Tourist" from his new pop-folk flavored album Blood of Man, along with a cover of the Shins' "Gone for Good."

On the Scene: The Return of 'VH1 Divas': What you don't see on TV, as Paula Abdul hosts the show's first all-star gathering in five years with Kelly Clarkson, Jennifer Hudson, Miley Cyrus and Sheryl Crow making their Divas debut.

Nick Cave, Author: Contributing editor Rob Sheffield catches up with the rocker as he prepares to release his bawdy second novel, The Death of Bunny Munro. Plus: Video of Cave reading an excerpt.

Megan Fox photographed in L.A. on August 28th, 2009.
Photograph by Mark Seliger
Styling by Anda and Masha for the Wall Group. Hair by Danilo for Pantene., for the Wall Group. Makeup by Patti Dubroff for the Wall Group. Manicure by Ashlie Johnson for the Wall Group. Set design by Andy Henbest for FrankReps. Bodysuit by American Apparel. Bracelet by Aurora Lopez-Mejia.