Pharrell Williams and Chad Hugo of N.E.R.D. sat down for a long, strange interview about working with Madonna and what he’s been using to make beats. Click above for Williams’ take on air conditioning and paint cans.

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Rolling Stone was all over SXSW — hanging with My Morning Jacket, N.E.R.D., Paramore and Moby, checking out Vampire Weekend, the Breeders, MGMT, Sara Bareilles, Ben Harper, Robyn and many more — and our trusty cameras captured it all. For a taste of the best SXSW ‘08 had to offer onstage and behind the scenes, check out our wrap-up video.

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We chatted with Rage Against the Machine’s Tom Morello and System of a Down’s Serj Tankian just before they hit the stage for solo sets at a concert at Stubb’s in Austin, Texas, to celebrate the soundtrack for the new documentary Body of War. As Rolling Stone has already reported, the movie follows Tomas Young, a war veteran whose spine was severed by a bullet in Iraq, and his odyssey since his injury.

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We caught up with Paramore before their big show at La Zona Rosa at South By Southwest, and the band took the opportunity to talk about the rumors behind their recent canceled tour dates. Check it out, plus get a look at all of our ongoing SXSW coverage — photos, video, interviews and live reports — here.

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One of the most reality-altering sets during yesterday’s South By Southwest festivities came care of My Morning Jacket, who are fast becoming one of the premiere live bands on the planet. Click above for a stunning rendition of their new song “Highly Suspicious,” from their forthcoming new album Evil Urges. For David Fricke’s complete take on this show, click here, and stay tuned for more live performances from My Morning Jacket and the rest of the great bands in Austin.

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Swedish comeback kid Robyn stopped by the RollingStone.com remote office and hung out on our couch while in town for this year’s South by Southwest festival. Click above for Robyn’s insights on Perez Hilton and who she wants to see while she’s in Austin.

If you’ve been watching our amazing video from SXSW, you know that punk icon and all-around Stooge Iggy Pop
met with our own Pete Maiden and Jenny Eliscu before his riveting late-night set in Austin this weekend. Well, what you saw was just a taste! Watch now to see the full interview.

You’ll see Iggy wax on about playing with the Stooges again, reveal what it’s like to be mislabeled “classic rock” and get real about how it feels to compete with the Red Hot Chili Peppers.

Regular attendees know that, like in Vegas, what happens at South By Southwest is supposed to stay at South By Southwest. Nonetheless, we sent Pete Maiden down to Austin, Texas, for this year’s festival with filmmaker Alexis Boling and contributing editor Jenny Eliscu and asked him to report back to us with all the grisly details about what he had seen — from local weirdos offering free hugs amid the throngs of concertgoers on Sixth Street to can’t miss footage from emerging artists the Pipettes and A Fine Frenzy. Pete also crashed great performances by Albert Hammond Jr., Pete Townshend, The Good, the Bad and the Queen, Kings of Leon and caught unforgettable late night sets from rock & roll royalty including the Stooges and Perry Farrell’s band, Satellite Party.

See it all — including exclusive interviews with Iggy Pop, the Buzzcocks, Perry and Nuno Bettencourt — right now!

For those of you who aren’t lucky enough to be in Austin for this year’s South by Southwest festival — or for those unprepared to brave the debauchery — you’re in luck. This year, not only did we dispatch badass photographer Noah Kalina to nail all the sights (See his Day One, Day Two, and Day Three galleries), we sent intrepid Pete Maiden down south with cameraman Alexis Boling, a big booze budget and contributing editor Jenny Eliscu, who’s charged with making sure it all works.

We gave Pete clear instructions: See as much music as possible, talk to the bands and fans, eat BBQ and drink an obscene amount of Texan beer. Watch the video now.

And tune back in Monday to catch a hyped-up set from the Stooges, more interviews with bands and fans, glimpses of the monstrosity of live shows…and, of course, check back to see if Pete survives the weekend.

Here are Pete’s highlights so far:

• Checking out Sixth Street, which closes to vehicle-traffic so thousands of fans can roam in and out of the music venues that line the blocks.
• Caught an Attic Jam hosted by Pete Townshend, where he rocked out with Rachel Fuller, Willy Mason, Martha Wainright, European sensation Mika and more.
• Sat down with the Horrors to talk U.S. vs. Euro festivals and why you need a homing pigeon in Austin.
• Chatted with A & R legend Michael Goldstone about why SXSW is still an amazing opportunity for bands to get seen and signed.
• Heard a hilarious confession from a young English lad who’d gotten blacked-out drunk back in the U.K., woke up in Austin, shagged a Texan and didn’t know where or how he was going next.
• And of course checked out a ton of live music from Bloc Party, the Horrors, to Albert Hammond Jr. (from the Strokes).