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• We’re assuming your stereo is cranking 21st Century Breakdown right now, so enhance your experience with all our exclusives from our new Green Day issue. We have Q&As with all three members, behind-the-scenes photos and video from the cover shoot, a gallery tracking the band’s history and much more. Get it all now over at our new issue hub.

• And then, there were two: Adam Lambert and Kris Allen will duke it out for the title of American Idol after booting Danny Gokey. Rob Sheffield thinks Glambert single-handedly saved AI — but was Allen’s jaw-dropping rendition of Kanye’s “Heartless” enough to close the gap?
• Martin Scorsese announced plans to direct a Frank Sinatra biopic, and Rock Daily asked our readers to tell us who should play Ol’ Blue Eyes. With megastars Leo DiCaprio and Johnny Depp among the frontrunners but Star Trek’s it-boy Chris Pine gaining hype, we broke down all the potential candidates.
• It wasn’t the best time to be a rock star this week: Rihanna suffered a nude photo scandal, Depeche Mode’s David Gahan was forced to cancel six concerts after being rushed to the hospital. And we learned about Pearl Jam bassist Jeff Ament’s violent mugging outside an Atlanta studio.