Music has always come easy for Glen Campbell -- his gift for ballads ("Wichita Lineman") and rodeo-bar staples ("Rhinestone Cowboy") made him the king of country pop, but it's away from the mic where life's been hard -- drug abuse, divorces, a much-ridiculed mug shot from a 2003 DUI arrest.

I'll agree with anybody that we've made the same record a couple of times," says Jack Johnson, whose latest, Sleep Through the Static, arrives this month. "But this time we wanted to take the road less traveled." Why?

After playing numerous sad sacks, John C. Reilly is finally getting his chance to be a superstar -- or at least a fake one. Directed by Jake Kasdan, Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story features the Chicago native as the titular Zelig-like singer, who overcomes a troubled childhood to become a music icon, inventing punk and dropping acid with the Beatles along the way.