"Play" 10 Years Later: Moby's Track by Track Guide to 1999's Global Smash How scratchy field recordings, Gwen Stefani and a Leonardo DiCaprio flick transformed him from a "has-been" into an international star When Play was released, I kind of thought my career was over," says Moby. He's speaking from the sparse, utilitarian Manhattan studio where he recorded the 1999 smash in the years before the walls were dotted with awards documenting its 10 million copies sold. Play wasn't the first album to make a rock star out of an insular techno nerdnik, but it was the first to make one a pop sensation. An effortless blend of atmospheric swoops, block-rocking beats and bluesy a cappellas nicked from...

Michael Jackson: The Essential Playlist Look back at the King of Pop's remarkable career in Rolling Stone's archives. Check out photos, cover stories, album reviews and more at our Michael Jackson hub. Culling a playlist from an artist as estimable and...

"Not Like Other Guys": Rob Sheffield Remembers Michael Jackson Look back at the King of Pop's remarkable career in Rolling Stone's archives. Check out photos, cover stories, album reviews and more at our Michael Jackson hub. The night Michael Jackson died: a street corner in...

Michael Jackson Fans Flood L.A. Landmarks to Remember King of Pop Look back at the King of Pop's remarkable career in Rolling Stone's archives. Check out photos, cover stories, album reviews and more at our Michael Jackson hub. Soon after word of Michael Jackson's death got around...

Rolling Stone's Essential Michael Jackson Coverage A Look Back at King of Pop's Life and Career Michael...

Michael Jackson (1958-2009) Look back at the King of Pop's remarkable career in Rolling Stone's archives. Check out photos, cover stories, album reviews and more at our Michael Jackson hub. Michael Jackson, one of the most talented and...

Moby - Wait for Me Artist: Moby Review: For a guy who made his name driving party people to ecstasy, Moby has always had a thing for the blues. His unlikely 1999 megahit, Play, used them literally, grafting ancient samples into inviting electronic grooves. His latest uses them spiritually, giving his melancholy streak room to brood and blossom. Instrumentals like "Shot in the Back of the Head" (Google the haunting video, directed by David Lynch) billow moodily, lush arrangements glowing with Eno-style analog-synth warmth. Never the... Rating: 3.5 Stars

Levon Helm - Electric Dirt Artist: Levon Helm Review: The Dead's "Tennessee Jed" is an inspired kickoff to Levon Helm's first proper rock & roll record in a dog's age. His 2007 comeback from throat cancer, Dirt Farmer, was mainly an acoustic affair. Electric Dirt — recorded with Larry Campbell and the rest of the band from Helm's Midnight Ramble gigs at his Woodstock, New York, home — wants to party: Helm struts his slippery shell-game groove on "Jed" and works it deftly throughout. But he digs deepest here with his voice, which veers... Rating: 4 Stars

Wilco - Wilco Artist: Wilco Review: Wilco's seventh studio album is a triumph of determined simplicity by a band that has been running from the obvious for most of this decade. The title is the giveaway. So is the opening gag, "Wilco (The Song)," with its rattling-bones guitar and singer-boss Jeff Tweedy's assurance, sung like pillow talk, that his combo is good for all that ails you: "Do you dabble in depression?/Is someone twisting a knife in your back?...Wilco will love you, baby." At times, Wilco (The Album) sounds like the... Rating: 4 Stars

Rob Thomas - Cradlesong Artist: Rob Thomas Review: Rob Thomas will never, ever be cool. Thomas has been the large-lunged, chest-thumping voice of straight-down-the-middle pop rock since 1996, when he emerged at the helm of Matchbox Twenty. He writes big, blowzy songs about love and angst, occasionally sounds like he's trying to eat his microphone, and is the bearer of what may be the least appealing shag haircut in popular-music history. But there's no doubting that he's a powerful singer, and with his biggest hit — the ferociously cheesy... Rating: 4 Stars

Patrick Wolf - The Bachelor Artist: Patrick Wolf Review: After his last album, the 2007 glam-rock epic Magic Position, Patrick Wolf had a horrific revelation: He wasn't being pretentious enough. So the art-damaged, beyond-androgynous U.K. poet goes all out here. You want great songs about minotaurs? "Theseus" features a spoken-word interlude from actress Tilda Swinton. He plays around with Celtic folk with violinist Eliza Carthy. "Vulture" is an electro-pop explosion with Wolf chanting, "You're d-d-d-dead meat," over buzzing beats from Nineties... Rating: 3.5 Stars

Babatunde Olatunji - Drums Of Passion Artist: Babatunde Olatunji Review: In the early 1960s, Babatunde Olatunji was the face of African music in America. Though the real Afropop of the time was longer on melodies of wisdom than drums of passion, the Nigerian political-science student quickly found that to teach Americans anything at all about Africa, he'd best keep it simple. So his six albums for Columbia, the first and last of which resurface here with unnecessarily jazzy bonus tracks, stick to theatrical percussion compositions overlaid with catchy choral singing.... Rating: 3.5 Stars

Jackson Doc On the Move Again as Investigation Continues With State Attorney, DEA's Help Federal agents and state officials are onboard as the investigation into Michael Jackson's sudden death continues. Los Angeles Police on Thursday confirmed reports that the Drug...

Jackson's Former Photographer: Michael a Good Dad with a Drug Problem The past week has been filled with more Michael Jackson speculation than we even thought possible...and there's no end in sight. Jackson's former personal photographer, Ian...

Final Jackson Rehearsal Footage Released The last video shot of Michael Jackson in preparation for his This Is It! tour shows what might have been. Two days before he died, the fallen hitmaker tore into "They Don't Care...

Don't Count Out Debbie Rowe: "I Want My Children" UPDATE: A judge has postponed next week's custody hearing until July 13 at the request of Rowe's attorney, according to the Los Angeles Superior Court public information officer. Matters...

Jackson Memorial Set for Staples Center, Funeral Plans Falling Into Place The pieces are finally falling into place as to how Michael Jackson will at last be laid to rest—and then memorialized accordingly. Arrangements are still being made, but...

Link Party: Brad Pitt Plays Personal Assistant to Someone Other Than Angelina Jolie • Brad Pitt is a personal assistant to a sumo wrestler in his latest Japanese commercial for cell phone company SoftBank. Pretty adorable, no? • Usually we enjoy calling out...

Gary Coleman's Wife Popped for Domestic Violence Now here's a diff'rent stroke that isn't right for anybody. Gary Coleman's wife, Shannon Price, was arrested Wednesday in Santaquin, Utah, on suspicion of domestic...

Kevin Jonas' Engagement = JoBros Jokes on Twitter Yesterday, tweens everywhere lost a Jonas Brother (at least it was only Kevin), and Twitter did what Twitter does—addressed the breaking news with plenty of exclamation...

New Photos of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince With the premiere of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince only two weeks away, 40 new photos have surfaced, teasing fans with what looks like the most action-packed installment of the...

Will Michael Jackson's Funeral Be Jehovah's Witness—or Muslim? Weren't the Jackson family Jehovah's Witnesses? How will that affect the funeral? —Bet Other fans are asking me similar questions, but instead wondering whether...

Jermaine Jackson Talks Michael: "I Wish It Was Me" Exactly one week after Michael Jackson's death, brother Jermaine Jackson became the first member of the still-mourning musical family to sit down for an in-depth interview about the late icon,...

Megan Fox Does Dinner With Zac Efron Megan Fox sure knows how to keep us guessing. First, she declared she was single. Then, she took a weekend getaway to Vegas with her former fiancé Brian Austin Green. Just...

Neil Patrick Harris Eyes Emmy Gig Not that it would have been all that difficult to best last year's reality-host tag team, but the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences is by all accounts thisclose to making it up to...

Gossip Girl Father Fodder: Who Should Play Papa van der Woodsen? When last we saw our favorite Upper East Siders on Gossip Girl, Serena van der Woodsen was heading to Fiji to find her dear old dad. The mystery man who fathered the blond bombshell and...

American Idol Record Deals: What's Up With the Others? So far, American Idol winner Kris Allen, runner-up Adam Lambert and fourth-place finisher Allison Iraheta have all inked recording contracts. But what about the others? We caught up with...

Jessica Simpson Belts Out the National Anthem Jessica Simpson attended the AT&T National golf tournament in Bethesda, Md., on Wednesday to put her stamp on "The Star-Spangled Banner." Then her footballer beau, Tony...

Who Owns the Beatles Songs Now That M.J.'s Dead? Now that M.J. is dead, who has the rights to the Beatles songs—and will we be able to buy them on iTunes? —Casey The publishing rights to most of the Beatles'...

The End of Friday Night Lights Isn't a Bad Thing For the fans who worked really hard to keep Friday Night Lights on the air, don't fret. The announcement of the series ending after two more seasons isn't necessarily set in...

Ashton Kutcher & Demi Moore Feeding America I'm helping Demi Moore and Ashton Kutcher feed America. I made the cut in their new video to help raise funds and awareness for hunger relief organization Feeding America. Moore...

Soup's Joel McHale Stars in Movie With Other Guy Is there nothing dreamy Joel McHale can't do? The Soup's host is a master of martial arts, noted test pilot, Arctic adventurer and rodeo roustabout, plus he's always so nice when he...