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Considering Iggy Pop has spent most of his career half-naked, it's ironic to see the punk legend going into the shirt business. But Pop made an appearance at Barney's Co-Op in New York last night to promote his new T-shirt line. "There's tons of irony," Pop tells Rolling Stone. "Especially ...

Kanye West's tour of social network headquarters continued yesterday. The rapper, who just launched a verified new Twitter account, visited the site's offices in California to debut another verse a cappella from his upcoming, still-untitled album, Rap Radar reports. "Lyrically, can't none of y'all murder 'Ye, cuz y'all raps ain't ...

Four months after Big Star drummer Jody Stephens and I talked about his late bandmate, singer-guitarist Alex Chilton, who died in March, we talked again – about bassist Andy Hummel, who passed away on July 19th of cancer at his home in Weatherford, Texas. Hummel was 59. His death leaves ...

The California Attorney General's office has announced that it won't seek charges against seven doctors and one nurse who were under investigation following Michael Jackson's death for prescribing drugs to the King of Pop. A spokeswoman for Attorney General Jerry Brown said that the investigators did not find sufficient evidence, ...

In honor of John Lennon's 70th birthday on October 9th, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Yoko Ono will plant a time capsule filled with Lennon's solo recordings and fan contributions in Cleveland. The capsules will be preserved and stored until a ceremonial presentation on October 9th, 2040. ...

In this week's At the Movies, Peter Travers sizes up the new comedy Dinner for Schmucks . In this remake of a French movie, Paul Rudd plays a businessman who's searching for the perfect guest (Steve Carell) to bring to his boss' monthly "dinner for idiots." The comic talent is ...

Good news for heavy metal couples who always hoped to exchange marriage vows in the vicinity of rock's Prince of Darkness: This year's Ozzfest is offering fans an opportunity to walk down the aisle Blizzard of Ozz-style with something the Ozzfest organizers call "Unholy Matrimony" packages. Each lucky bride and ...

Fact: brutal sun glare destroys 85 percent of festival experiences. Solution: be one of the 10 lucky winners of Rolling Stone's VonZipper giveaway — you'll score a pair of "Pirates of Destiny" Rockford sunglasses from VonZipper. The shades are made of fools gold and produced in limited edition to commemorate ...

Neil Young is in the final stages of mixing his new album, which he recorded with U2 producer Daniel Lanois in a Los Angeles house earlier this year. Following a longtime tradition, Young only recorded around the peak of the full moon. "We cut a couple of solo acoustic songs, ...

Early projections indicated Rick Ross' Teflon Don would end Eminem's four-week reign atop the Billboard 200, but Recovery remained Number One for a fifth straight week. Recovery moved another 187,000 copies, only a four percent decline from the week prior according to Nielsen SoundScan. Eminem also locked up the Number ...

The Rolling Stones' Ronnie Wood has been painting longer than he's been playing guitar, and he'll finally show off his artistic chops with a gallery exhibition this fall. On September 21st, Wood will unveil more than 60 original works at the Butler Institute of American Art in Youngstown, Ohio, marking ...

Two more people have been declared dead after this weekend's Love Parade tragedy in Duisberg, Germany, where 19 people were killed in a stampede. German prosecutors also revealed yesterday that all of the deceased had crushed ribcages, and that over 500 people were injured when panic broke out in the ...

Wyclef Jean is reportedly considering running for president of his native Haiti. Jean, whose Yéle Haiti foundation helped raise millions of dollars for his homeland after a massive earthquake devastated Haiti earlier this year, told Canadian newspaper La Droit that he was weighing his political options, later admitting to CNN, ...

This fall, Bob Dylan will release the latest edition of his bootleg series plus a massive collection of reissues of his earliest albums, Dylan fansite Isis reports. In October, the legend will return with the 47-track The Bootleg Series Vol. 9, which will feature studio recordings from 1962-1964 known to ...

In an unorthodox move, Kanye West debuted verses from three new songs a cappella for employees at Facebook's headquarters in Palo Alto, California, yesterday. The rapper, who will reportedly release his fifth album this fall, performed a new poem called "Mama's Boyfriend" along with new tracks "My Chain Heavy," "Sweat ...

Daniel Lanois says he is lucky to be alive following a motorcycle crash last month in Los Angeles in which he suffered six broken bones, a cracked pelvis and internal bleeding around his right lung. "I was on my bike with a friend of mine on the back and a ...

As they gear up for American Idol's tenth season next year, producers are prepping big changes to boost declining ratings and the loss of longtime judge Simon Cowell. The show is reportedly close to a deal to bring back producer Nigel Lythgoe (who left in 2008) in an executive producer ...

Rolling Stone goes beyond the jacuzzi in our current issue, getting the real backstories behind the cast of MTV's smash sleaze-fest Jersey Shore. For the full story, read Jenny Eliscu's "The Wild, The Stupid & The Jersey Shore Shuffle" in All Access now. Check out video of the cast chatting ...

Best Coast mastermind Bethany Consentino has crafted a perfect summer record in Crazy for You: breezy, lo-fi, garage-pop numbers about sunshine, searching for boys and spending lazy days sitting on the couch. Though the album is packed with girl-group tunefulness, Consentino is more than just a Sixties pop revisionist — ...