News Features
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COVER Bush Apologizes: The Farewell Interview We Wish He'd Give
W. comes clean - on his dad, Condi's farts and the time Dick waterboarded the house boy
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U2 Break Down 'No Line on the Horizon'
Key tracks from the band's eclectic new album
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Paul McCartney Q&A;: Behind the Fireman's New Psych-Pop Gem
"Making this album seemed like improv theater"
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Tech '09: The Hottest Rock Gadgets on the Horizon
From smartphones to Internet radio receivers, a full report from the Consumer Electronics Show
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Metallica, Run-DMC, Jeff Beck Lead Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's Class of 2009
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Rolling Stone's Essential Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Coverage
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He was a star athlete at Hammonton High. She was the hottest teacher in school. What happens when every boy's fantasy becomes reality?
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School Sex Scandal: Behind the Story
Writer Sabrina Rubin Erdely on a star athlete, a gym teacher and an affair gone wrong
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Q&A;: The Music That Moves Steve Earle
Rabble-rousing rocker on Townes Van Zandt, Kings of Leon and Tom Morello
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The Stooges' Ron Asheton Remembered
Pioneering guitarist shaped the sound of punk to come
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Nine insiders who are reshaping the music biz for 2009 and beyond
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Beyoncé grabbed the ring, My Morning Jacket swung for the bleachers, Lil Wayne cracked up and Coldplay ruled the world
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TV on the Radio partied as the world collapsed, Dylan hit the vaults, Lil Wayne topped hip-hop and Metallica thundered back
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COVER Brad Pitt: The Rolling Stone Interview
The actor on fame, life with six kids and how playing an old man made him grow up
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COVER The Best of 2008
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Readers' Rock List: The 20 Best Music Videos of 2008
The Killers, Weezer, Katy Perry, Kings of Leon, Beyonce - the year's best clips, as voted by the readers of Rolling Stone
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From "Chinese Democracy" to Britney's comeback, the year's biggest stories
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From a Beach Boy's gripping solo album to the (very) early days of U2
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Artists Pick the Best Albums and Singles of 2008
Chris Martin, Taylor Swift, Lars Ulrich and more name their favorites
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The Great Rock & Roll Gift Guide
From box sets to lunchbox amps; this year's must-haves for music fans
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With his trusty sidekick, the Ace, he fights to vanquish crime and defend the helpless - if he doesn't get evicted first. Behind the mask of the Real Life Superheroes
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At 75, Willie Nelson tours 200 days of the year, smokes weed nonstop, and is trying to launch a biodiesel revolution. On the bus with the world's mellowest man.
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Rolling in Vegas with Brandon Flowers, the biggest, most insecure Mormon rock star ever
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Q&A;: Joan Jett on Her Big Hits and Runaways Drama
Rock's original tough gal talks being loved by Pete Townshend and scorned by Clive Davis
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Telling a B.I.G. Story: Inside the Biggie Smalls Biopic "Notorious"
Star Jamal "Gravy" Woolard and Co. on capturing the Brooklyn rapper's life onscreen
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COVER Britney Returns
A year after her very public meltdown, Britney Spears is back to work and out of trouble. But what has the comeback cost her?
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Behind the Britney Story: A Conversation With Writer Jenny Eliscu
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COVER The Hot List
From a futuristic pop star to Ambien tripping, the 70 hottest bands, actors, drugs, movies of '08 and beyond
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Hot Actor: Q&A; With "Twilight" Star Robert Pattinson
"There's only so much adoration you can take"
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COVER The Top 12 DVDs of 2008
Pop in these 12 Blu-ray beauties, which also look good on standard DVD (I said good, not ridiculous good), and get yourself rocked
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Hot Sci-Fi Beyonce: A Q&A; With Janelle Monae
Atlanta soul singer with an Elvis pompadour and props from Prince and Diddy talks evil cyborgs and her hair machine
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Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Preps Satellite Museum in New York
Annex focuses on Big Apple rock, from CBGB's urinal to Bruce's Chevy
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Elvis Costello Talks Music on Cable
Police, Elton, many more stop by Costello's new Sundance Channel Show
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Hot Scene: The Return to Laurel Canyon
The former L.A. home base of Joni Mitchell and Jackson Browne is now a hub to a new wave of hippie rockers