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• Madonna brought her candy shop to the U.S., and we were live at her first night at Madison Square Garden. Couldn’t make it? Check out the photo gallery to see all the visual highlights from the Sticky & Sweet Tour, plus check out all the times the Material Girl appeared on the cover of Rolling Stone.
• Foo Fighters made a villain out of John McCain after the GOP candidate used “My Hero” without asking permission. Not like they would have given him permission anyway — it’s just common courtesy to ask first. The Foos complained and are now no longer McCain’s friends, though they do join a growing list of disgruntled rockers.
• Janet Jackson was forced to cancel more concerts thanks to a mysterious illness that felled her for two weeks. Thankfully, she’s all recovered and ready to get back to rocking witchu. Meanwhile, a slip from the stage sent My Morning Jacket’s Jim James to the hospital and prevented MMJ from performing at an Obama benefit show.
• We sat down with Slash to talk his upcoming solo album, his Les Paul guitar and the status of Velvet Revolver. “Everything is cool. We’ve been writing this whole time, but we’re on this quest for a singer,” Slash says. Read the rest of the top-hatted one’s thoughts here.