A Conversation With Barack Obama The Candidate Talks About The Youth Vote, What's On His iPod and His Top Three Priorities As President • Barack Obama: Audio From the Rolling Stone Cover Story • Barack Obama: The Stevie Wonder Geek Returns to the Cover of Rolling Stone • Photo Gallery: Barack Obama, a History in Pictures Shortly after Barack Obama claimed victory in the fight for the Democratic nomination, I joined him aboard his chartered 757 campaign plane as a member of the press corps. He was flying from Chicago to Appleton, Wisconsin, for a town-hall meeting, one of a...

Barack Obama: Audio From the Rolling Stone Cover Story • A Conversation With Barack Obama • Barack Obama: The Stevie Wonder Geek Returns to the Cover of Rolling Stone • Photo Gallery: Barack Obama, a History in Pictures

Artists Lend Voices to Obama Campaign The Democratic nominee inspires acts from Dylan to Lil Wayne • Cover Story: A Conversation With Barack Obama • Barack and Roll: The Best Obama-Inspired Tracks • Barack Obama: A History in Photos The night Barack Obama clinched the Democratic nomination for president, Green Day's Billie Joe Armstrong found himself experiencing an unfamiliar emotion: hope. "After his acceptance speech, I have to admit, it took me an hour to get the lump out of my throat," says Armstrong, whose band's American Idiot was the defining protest...

Cosmic Travelers My Morning Jacket on ruling Bonnaroo and going R&B with their killer hit disc "Evil Urges" For their 35th and final song at Bonnaroo, as a steady rain soaked Tennessee, My Morning Jacket eased into a cover of Mötley Crüe's "Home Sweet Home." It wasn't the only special moment during the four-hour, career-defining set — which included most of the band's new Evil Urges, killer covers of James Brown's "Cold Sweat" and Erykah Badu's "Tyrone," and a guest spot from Metallica guitarist Kirk Hammett ("an up-and-comer," said MMJ frontman Jim James), who shredded on the 2003 jam...

Top 10: The Best in TV, the Web, Books and Beyond Popcorn movies, cool beach reads and a scooter that delivers beer: what more do you need for summer? 1. Summer Movie Showdown: What Can Top Iron Man? Angelina Jolie, Will Smith and Batman face off "It's 'no one knows anything' time," Variety editor Peter Bart says of this year's summer movies, citing screenwriter William Goldman's famous line about how fruitless it is to predict a Hollywood smash. Indeed, when you consider that an unconventional superhero film starring a once-incarcerated ex-drug addict is the number-one movie of the season (Iron Man, at $300 million)...

Motley Crue Tune Up for Summer Tour Video: Behind the Scenes With Mötley Crüe About an hour before showtime, here's how the four members of Mötley Crüe spend their time: Singer Vince Neil lifts weights. Bassist Nikki Sixx plays loud music. Drummer Tommy Lee plays unbelievably loud music. "The music is on 'stun,' " Lee brags. And guitarist Mick Mars meditates as far away from Lee as possible. "When we all shared dressing rooms, I was a wreck," Mars says. " 'Dude, do you have to beat on the trash can? Let's...

Disturbed - Indestructible Artist: Disturbed Review: In June, these Chicago metalheads had the Number One album in America. It's not hard to see why: With meticulously constructed guitar skronk, serrated verses and cathartic refrains on cuts like "Enough," the album has clear pop appeal in its own dour way. Singer David Draiman says Indestructible is Disturbed's darkest record yet — it was partly inspired by the band's experiences performing for troops overseas — and he does his best to back up the drama. Wailing like a leather- and... Rating: 2 Stars

Billy Joel - The Stranger (30th anniversary deluxe edition) Artist: Billy Joel Review: In 1977, Joel's fourth and best album replaced Simon & Garfunkel's Bridge Over Troubled Water as Columbia Records' all-time top-seller, establishing Joel as a titan of adult contemporary ­ America's answer to Elton John. The Stranger also launched Joel's longterm collaboration with producer Phil Ramone, who distilled the Piano Man's music to its essence, a hook-packed blend of AM-radio pop-rock and Broadway schmaltz. The hit single was the gooey "Just the Way You Are," but there's impressive... Rating: 4 Stars

David Banner - The Greatest Story Ever Told Artist: David Banner Review: Much of David Banner's charm lies in his bulldozer flow, his political awareness and his innovative production skills: His xylophone-laden beat for Lil Wayne's "La La" was one of the best on Tha Carter III. But on his fifth album, Banner battles with his urge to bring standard-issue Dirty South chart-toppers and cred-building hardness: The Greatest Story Ever Told is long on brawling tracks like "9mm," which banks on overbearing rhymes about gunplay. There are also pop-wise club jams like... Rating: 2.5 Stars

Journey - Revelation Artist: Journey Review: If a band sticks around long enough, it turns into a tribute band. For years, Journey have slogged around the oldies circuit with a rotating cast of singers trying to impersonate Steve Perry, who belted out the group's Seventies and Eighties hits. But this double-CD set, which also includes a live DVD, features the most unlikely Perry sound-alike yet: Arnel Pineda, a 40-year-old Filipino who spends an entire disc delivering note-for-note remakes of classics like "Don't Stop Believin'." On the se... Rating: 3 Stars

Black Kids - Partie Traumatic Artist: Black Kids Review: It's true: Black Kids know how to get down. The interracial crew's "I'm Not Gonna Teach Your Boyfriend How to Dance With You" was last year's hottest indie-rock tail-wagger — a campy mix of pillow-fight synth-pop and B-52s giddiness. Rerecorded versions of "Boyfriend" and other songs from the band's 2007 EP, Wizard of Ahhhs, make up the best moments of their sugary debut LP — which is a tad worrying. But with Brit-pop vet Bernard Butler behind the decks, these Floridians still toss... Rating: 3.5 Stars

Alkaline Trio - Agony & Irony Artist: Alkaline Trio Review: When My Chemical Romance struck platinum, Alkaline Trio might have wondered, "Why not us?" The Chicago group has spent more than a decade evolving from a Misfits-inspired hardcore act into craftsmen of exquisite doom-pop. Having recently signed with a major label, the Trio grab for the brass ring with Agony & Irony, enlisting producer Josh Abraham (Linkin Park, Velvet Revolver) to spin their big-hooked tales of funerals and heartbreak into radio-friendly cluster bombs. That new sound fits them... Rating: 3.5 Stars

Miley Cyrus: "Coolest. Person. Ev-er!" If only every 15-year-old could have Miley Cyrus' self-esteem. "Coolest. Person. Ev-er!" she joked to People in a recent interview when asked how she would describe...

Burning Q's: Dean's Other Girl & More Hills Haters I've been watching the third season of Tori Spelling and Dean McDermott on Oxygen. They keep saying their new daughter is their first little girl. Didn't Dean have a girl with his first...

Tinseltown's European Vacation As our country takes time out today—in between scarfing down hot dogs and dips in the pool—to remember its independence from England, we thought we'd take a...

Larry Harmon, aka Bozo the Clown, RIP Before there was Krusty, there was Larry. Larry Harmon, the man who delighted millions of kids as Bozo the Clown for more than five decades, has died. He was 83. Longtime...

Springsteen Remembers Madam Marie It doesn't take a crystal ball to see that Bruce Springsteen fans are in mourning. Boardwalk fixture and Springsteen song legend Madam Marie, the seaside clairvoyant immortalized in...

Sightings: Chloe, Charlize and Ellen Pompeo GARDEN VARIETY: Chloë Sevigny, carrying a Donna Karan Modern Leo Tote bag while picking up flowers at a grocery store in L.A. BAND OF BROTHERS: Madonna and Guy Ritchie's sons,...

Appreciation: One of Stargate's Finest Making Stargate SG-1's Maj. Gen. George Hammond hard-nosed was a given. Making him human, as well, was a Don S. Davis mission. Davis played the commanding Hammond for several seasons...

Rumer Willis vs. the Bloggers Bruce Willis isn't the only tough guy in the family. His daughter Rumer can take on mean bloggers with the same ferocity her dad disposes of, like, terrorists or...

The Most Totally American Movies Ever: Our Top 9 Happy 232nd birthday, America! Along with baseball, Britney and oh so many flavors of Doritos, you've given the world an uncountable wealth of movies to enjoy. On this momentous holiday...

Drive Safe: Who's The Mystery Star Behind the Wheel This Week? Find out which celebrity is looking to get you and your friends home safely this holiday weekend... Why use one designated driver when you can have three? The stars of E!'s...