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R.E.M.: Resurrected.

Deputy Editor Steve Kandell sits down with Michael Stipe, Mike Mills and Peter Buck at SPIN's April cover shoot to discuss the past and present of R.E.M.

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Power Ballots

Dozens of rockers, rappers, and pop stars have been hitting the campaign trail this year, singing, dancing, speaking, smiling, and waving for their favorite presidential candidates. But is anyone paying attention?
Photograph by Ben Alsop

Who Earns What

We all know that rock and raps stars can earn tens of millions each year, but what about the others who toil in the business of music? From managers to roadies to bloggers to bus drivers, here's how much they take home.

It's widely reported how much the wealthiest pop stars make. Pick up a fi nancial magazine and you'll read about the 2007 earnings of the Rolling Stones ($88 million), U2 ($30 million), and Britney Spears ($9 million). Even Elvis Presley took in $49 million last year -- and he's been dead for 30 years.

Chicago, Ill!

Crash a raucous house party with the brightest stars of the Windy City's underground hip-hop scene.

There's a new hip-hop/dance hybrid blowing up in the windy city. With a sense of unbridled fun not seen since rap's golden age, this new crew cherry-picks from two decades of club music, creating a gangsta-free, party-igniting sound that's made for inciting dance-floor riots.

The Spin Interview: Stephen Malkmus

Over the course of two decades, Stephen Malkmus has traded Pavement's inscrutable, self-reflexive wordplay for marathon prog-guitar solos. "I'm just not that much into words lately," he says. Yet he speaks to us anyway.
Stephen Malkmus / Photographed for Spin in Portland, Oregon, by John Clark

For most of the '90s, Stephen Malkmus may have been the perpetually smirking face of indie rock. Pavement, the quintet he formed in his hometown of Stockton, California, with fellow singer/guitarist Scott Kannberg, became the figureheads of a scene, as passionate about elegantly formed pop songs as they were about noise, chaos, and diffidence.

Paramore Is a Band

She's the flame-haired frontwoman for rock's most successful new act. But Hayley Williams just wants to be one of the guys.
Paramore / Photo by Viki Forshee

Franklin, Tennessee -- 30 minutes south of Nashville – is one of the wealthiest towns in one of the nation's wealthiest counties. Brad Paisley, Carrie Underwood, Miley Cyrus, and Sheryl Crow live around here. So does half of the contemporary Christian-music industry.

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