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Leer en español W e’re heading to Dunkin’ — and we’re taking Shakira’s purple Lamborghini. It’s an airless, parched afternoon in Miami, and we’ve just left the Sony Music offices, where Shakira took a bunch of calls and meetings. Now, she’s got some free time before she has to pick …

When Linda Perry started allowing director Don Hardy to film her day-to-day existence, she didn’t realize the cameras would arrive just in time for her life to fall apart. Perry is the singer-songwriter-producer behind 4 Non Blondes’ “What’s Up,” Pink‘s “Get This Party Started,” and Christina Aguilera‘s “Beautiful,” among other …

A re you getting a massage?” Carlotta Cosials asks. “We should, baby! It’s Hinds band, baby!” It’s spring in midtown Manhattan, and I’m at a nail salon with the most joyful duo in indie rock. Cosials is sitting in a pedicure chair on one side of me, while her bandmate, …

In his new memoir, Under a Rock, Blondie guitarist Chris Stein looks back on the highs and lows that came with the band’s success. The pioneering punk band formed in New York in 1974 and achieved megastardom within a few years thanks to hits like “Heart of Glass” and “Dreaming.” …

F or six decades and counting, John Cale has lived on the edge of the avant-garde. A classically trained violist, he spent the mid-Sixties playing hours of drones with minimalist composer La Monte Young before co-founding the Velvet Underground with Lou Reed. The band transformed rock & roll into an …

In his rollicking new single “Went to a Party,” Nick Lowe puts on a “bad suit,” starts “jigging” to the music, is mistaken for Robyn Hitchcock, and winds up staying until nearly 4 a.m., leaving only when the DJ starts playing something not to his taste. “I haven’t been to …

Anger is an emotion Parker Cannon knows well. It’s what punches through the first three albums from his California-based pop-punk band, the Story So Far. It’s what carries his deeply personal lyrics into full-throttle screams, and it’s what compels throngs of fervent fans to fling their bodies toward the stage …

This story was originally published in the July 28, 2005 issue of Rolling Stone. More than ten years of tradition dictates that every night of the summer-long Warped Tour end the same way: In a parking lot crammed full of tour buses, dozens of tattooed and mohawked punk bands gather …

One of the hottest tickets in the Great Lakes region this fall might be for the University of Wisconsin–Stevens Point men’s basketball team. Not only will fans get to see the Pointers compete in the Wisconsin Intercollegiate Athletic Conference, but they may also get a chance to meet forward Josiah …

The biggest, glossiest album of Bruce Springsteen‘s career, 1984’s Born in the U.S.A., has a shadowy, equally classic twin —the low-fi, solo-acoustic Nebraska, released two years earlier. The albums are inextricably linked, beginning with the fact that multiple Born in the U.S.A. tracks — the title song, “Downbound Train,” “Working …