• Aerosmith Replacing Tyler, Not Breaking Up
• Sesame Street’s Best Musical Performances
• Lady Gaga Reveals “Bad Romance” Video
• Rihanna Breaks Silence in 20/20 interview
• Video: Shakira on She Wolf, Taylor Swift
• Them Crooked Vultures Stream New Album
• Green Day Headed to Broadway
• Phish To Play New Year’s Show in Miami
• Bands to Honor Neil Young at MusiCares Event
• Taylor Swift Shows Off Comedy Chops on SNL
• U2, Jay-Z Team Up at MTV Europe Awards
• Zemeckis Wants Beatles for Yellow Submarine
• Britney Upset Over Lip-synch Controversy
• Drummer Jerry Fuchs Dies at 34
• Rock Lists: New York Songs
• Devo Rip Through Full Albums on New Tour
• Jackson Doctor Speaks About Star’s Drug Use
• Rolling Stones’ Live at the Max on DVD
• Pixies Rock Doolittle at L.A. Tour Launch
• Jack White: Not on Slash’s Solo LP
• Evanescence Return to the Stage in NYC
• Jay-Z Announces 2010 Blueprint 3 Tour Dates
• Exclusive: Lady Gaga on Set of Gossip Girl
• “Sublime” Told to Stop Using Band Name
• Breaking: La Roux
• Clips From Lambert’s LP Hit Amazon
• Stooges Rehearsing for 2010 Tour

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The end of the decade is nearly upon us and on December 9th, Rolling Stone’s panel of critics, artists and industry figures will name the best songs and albums of the past 10 years. But we want to know what you think too. Starting today, we’re asking the Rolling Stone readers to tell us what they think is the Song of the Decade and the Album of the Decade. Plus, be sure to place your vote on the Readers’ Poll ballot to help decide the pick for Artist of the Decade.

Who will it be? Timberlake or Radiohead? Jay-Z or Beyonce? Springsteen or U2? You can only vote for one song, one album and one artist of the decade, so think long and hard before casting your vote. The balloting stars today and runs until Monday, November 30th, giving you 20 days to make these difficult decisions. Click here for the Readers’ Poll ballot and remember to check back on December 9th when we reveal both Rolling Stone’s and the Readers’ Poll picks.

Bon Jovi’s return to rock is the focus of this week’s New Reviews as Jon, Richie and the rest of the New Jersey band release their 11th album, The Circle, today. After exploring Nashville with their country-influenced 2007 album Lost Highway, Bon Jovi break out the big choruses and arena anthems their fans have come to love. “It does rock — if your idea of rock is Aerosmith doing Diane Warren songs,” Christian Hoard writes in his three-star Rolling Stone review. “Predictable and immaculately produced, these arena-shakers offer a familiar brand of Jersey cheese, but where Jon Bon Jovi once was kind of quixotic (”Livin’ on a Prayer”), he’s more contemplative than ever, turning out meditations like “Live Before You Die.”

Also out this week is the long-awaited debut album by D.C. rapper Wale, who previously made waves with a mixtape dedicated to Seinfeld and an opening slot on Jay-Z’s Blueprint 3 tour. Attention Deficit features guests like Lady Gaga and Pharrell while boasting production by heavyweights like Mark Ronson, Cool & Dre and Dave Sitek. Nothing on Wale’s debut is as strange as him rapping about Jerry and Elaine: “Wale instead fashions himself Kanye East, a mix of aspiration and anger, given to jazzy moralizing á la the Roots yet not above tapping Lady Gaga for the single ‘Chillin,’” Jon Dolan says in his three-star review. (more…)

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Dave Matthews, Red Hot Chili Peppers, John Mellencamp, Wilco and Crosby, Stills & Nash are just a handful of the artists set to pay tribute to legend Neil Young at the 2010 MusiCare’s Person of the Year gala on January 29th at the Los Angeles Convention Center. The event will honor both Young’s Rock & Roll Hall of Fame-worthy musical achievements as well as his philanthropic work, which includes leading roles in both Farm Aid and the Bridge School benefit concerts. Both Mellencamp and Matthews serve on Farm Aid’s board of directors alongside Young. (more…)

Tomorrow Shakira’s reign as Rolling Stone’s cover star will come to an end. Who will replace the hip-shaking hottie? We’re not telling, but here’s your second glimpse of the new issue: pin stripes and a snazzy wool blazer. Think you know who the dapper rock star (or stars) will be? Hit us back with your best guesses. We’ll reveal the answer Wednesday morning!

Just one album into her career, Lady Gaga has established herself as someone impervious to predictions — especially in the music video department. And the video for her first Fame Monster single, “Bad Romance,” has Gaga providing fans with perhaps her craziest, brightest canvas yet. A collaboration between director Frances Lawrence and the Haus of Gaga — or in this case, the Bath House of Gaga — “Bad Romance” finds Gaga simultaneously paying homage visually to Kubrick and lyrically to Hitchcock (”I want your psycho / Your vertigo stick / Want you in my rear window”), all while dressed in some of the most outrageous outfits she’s ever worn (and that’s saying a lot). The video premiered today over at Gaga’s official site.

Check out Lady Gaga’s wildest wardrobe moments. (more…)

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Fresh off their triumphant three-night stand at Indio, California’s Festival 8, the reunited Phish have announced plans to play their first New Year’s Eve concert since 2003 when they take over Miami’s American Airlines Arena for a four-night residency December 28th-31st. The New Year’s Eve show will be a three-set extravaganza at the same Miami arena where Phish and their Phans last rung in the New Year together six years ago. Phish also celebrated the dawn of the new millennium in the Sunshine State with a festival in Big Cypress, Florida on December 30th and 31st, 1999.

Check out photos from Festival 8.

The online ticket request period for Phish’s Miami shows is going on right now over at the band’s official website, with the public onsale date scheduled for November 21st. As Rolling Stone reported from Indio two weekends ago, Phish resurrected an old Halloween tradition by performing another artist’s album—in this year’s case, the Rolling Stones’ Exile on Main Street—in its entirety. The Vermont foursome followed that October 31st performance with their first-ever acoustic set the very next day.

Before they usher in 2010 in Florida, Phish will embark on a fall tour starting November 18th in Detroit. The trek will also include a three-night sold-out stand at New York’s Madison Square Garden. Check out all the Phish dates below:
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Them Crooked Vultures’ self-titled debut album won’t be released until next Tuesday, November 17th, but you can listen to it right now. The supergroup of Josh Homme, Dave Grohl and John Paul Jones are streaming the hard-rocking, Zeppelin-inspired album in its entirety now over at TCV’s official site. This gift comes just a week after the Vultures offered up their song “Mind Eraser, No Chaser” to fans as a free download.

Inspired by the Vultures’ generosity, for your reading pleasure we’re posting our review for Them Crooked Vultures now before it hits stands in our next issue. In his three-and-a-half star Rolling Stone review of TCV, Rob Sheffield writes, “The album sticks to the sort of low-end guitar boogie that Homme and Grohl were blasting in their Camaros when they bummed their first cigarettes.” With Jones in tow, the supergroup sticks to their Zep roots, as the track “Elephants” “basically crunches every riff on Led Zeppelin II into seven dizzy minutes.”

Check out rock’s most famous supergroups, from Cream to Audioslave. (more…)

Shakira’s reign as the star of Rolling Stone’s latest issue comes to an end tomorrow, but we couldn’t let the Colombian singer’s RS cover pass by without throwing a party in celebration of her upcoming album She Wolf, out November 23rd. We caught up with Shakira on the red carpet at New York’s Bowery Hotel before the partying got underway and she told us what she really thought about Taylor Swift’s impersonation of her on Saturday Night Live this past weekend. (more…)

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Sesame Street, the greatest kids’ show of all time, celebrates its 40th birthday today. While you may think you’re too old to sweep the clouds away with Big Bird and the gang, you can definitely still appreciate the slew of incredible musical guests the show hosted over the years. We’ve gathered together the 40 best performances — from Stevie Wonder’s rocking rendition of “Superstition” to Norah Jones’ hilarious duet with Elmo on “Don’t Know Y” — for your viewing pleasure. So how do you get to Sesame Street? Just click below.

The 40 Best Musical Performances from Sesame Street

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New York’s Great White Way is about to turn a shade of green. According to Playbill, Green Day’s American Idiot musical, which wraps up its San Francisco run on November 15, will transfer to Broadway. “There is a Broadway future for the show, but at this time no dates or theater are confirmed,” the show’s spokesman Michael Hartman said.

Meet the cast of the American Idiot musical.

The intention to move the Berkeley Repertory Theatre’s smash hit to New York was revealed November 9th, when a casting notice seeking performers for the Broadway staging of the show was made public. The notice gave no details as to when production on the Broadway American Idiot will begin, or what actors will carry over from the Berkeley Repertory run. The musical premiered in September and was eventually extended five additional weeks past its original run, making it the top-grossing show in the Berkeley Repertory Theatre’s history, Playbill writes. (more…)

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Aerosmith’s Joe Perry took to his Twitter page yesterday to relay some potentially positive news to fans: despite Steven Tyler’s apparent departure, “Aerosmith is definitely NOT breaking up.” Perry also confirmed that the remaining four members of Aerosmith would seek out a new singer while Tyler did “his own thing.”

“Aerosmith is positively looking for a new singer to work with. You just can’t take 40 years of experience and throw it in the bin!” Perry tweeted yesterday, November 9th. “Band is playing hotter than ever and our songs need to be played live! Don’t despair; Aerosmith not splitting up. Promise that’s the last you’ll hear from me on the subject till we gear up again.”

Aerosmith Live: Check out photos of concerts from the past four decades
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• After eight months of delays, Lil Wayne’s rap-rock crossover album Rebirth finally appears to have cemented a release date: December 15th. The album’s first single “Prom Queen” debuted back in late-January, followed by tracks like “Fix My Hat” and “Hot Revolver.” According to Reuters, guests on Rebirth include Drake, Lenny Kravitz, Travis Barker and Fall Out Boy.

• My Morning Jacket will get the animated treatment on November 22nd as the Evil Urges crew provided their voices and likenesses to an episode of American Dad appropriately titled “My Morning Straitjacket.” Jim James and the rest of MMJ figure into the plot after the show’s main character becomes obsessed with the band, TwentyFourBit writes.
• Not only is Joe Jackson seeking a monthly allowance from his son Michael’s estate, the Jackson patriarch is also reportedly trying to oust the co-executors named in Michael’s 2002 will, CNN reports. Joe Jackson’s lawyer contends that Michael’s signature on the will is questionable. The will reads it was signed July 7th, 2002 in Los Angeles, but family members claim Michael was in New York that day.
• Justin Timberlake was granted a permanent restraining order against a woman who trespassed on the singer’s property claiming she was destined to marry Timberlake. Karen McNeil, an “obsessed and mentally unstable stalker” according to JT’s legal team, took a taxi filled with her own possessions to Timberlake’s home with the intention of moving in, despite never having actually met the FutureSounds star, the BBC writes.

A digitally remastered version of the Rolling Stones’ 1991 film Live at the Max — the first feature-length concert movie to be shot using IMAX technology — will be released on Blu-ray and DVD tomorrow, November 10th. Live at the Max was filmed during the Stones’ 1990 European tour in support of their album Steel Wheels, which celebrates its 20th anniversary this year. To this day, it remains the most successful IMAX concert film of all-time. (more…)

Which rock hero likes to get tied up in leather? One of our next cover stars, of course! This is your first glimpse of the new issue, which hits newsstands on Wednesday. Do you know who’s the owner of this jacket? Leave your best guesses in the comments. We’ll post another clue tomorrow, so stay tuned!