November 15, 2007 – On the evening of September 30, from his home in Oxford, England, Radiohead guitarist Jonny Greenwood upended decades of music-business tradition with a simple post on the band's blog: "Well, the new album is finished, and it's coming out in ten days. We've called it In Rainbows." Free from their six-album record deal with EMI (Capitol Records in the U.S.), Radiohead released their seventh album as a digital download themselves, with no list price. Fans could also shell out £40 (about $80) for a box set (which includes a vinyl version, a disc of bonus tracks, and a book), while those wanting a conventional single CD would have to wait until January, when In Rainbows will hit retailers. "It's certainly not a comment on the music business," says Greenwood. "We wanted to experiment and get the music out quickly.

June 20, 2007 – When Rufus Wainwright asks, "Do I disappoint you?" in the first song on his fifth record, Release the Stars, it's a fair question. Despite a loyal army of "Rufophants," as he calls them, the 33-year-old singer/songwriter's ornate cabaret pop has been a hard sell to mainstream audiences. "I stopped paying attention to CD sales a long time ago," he says. "But I'm going all-out to promote this new album -- I'm going to flog this horse till it's dead. Then, when I'm firmly ensconced in the pop hierarchy, I can go and write my opera." You recorded in Berlin, a place where artists often go to experiment, but Release the Stars sounds like your other records. What happened? Well, I was intending to get a weird haircut and tear up my mother's shirt from the '70s and wear it backward. But when I got there, I was more inspired by the buildings and the atmosphere.

April 24, 2007 – For our May cover feature, six stars of this year's festivals give the skinny on ginormous outdoor shows to (sun-)baked crowds. SPIN.com was on hand for the historic cover shoot in Hollywood, and we filmed our own quick interviews with the cover subjects. Watch our on-site video interview with Satellite Party's Perry Farrell, and keep checking this space for interviews and behind-the-scenes footage of Perry, AFI's Davey Havok, Rage Against the Machine/Nightwatchman guitarist Tom Morello, Wilco's Jeff Tweedy, Wu-Tang's RZA, and Spoon's Britt Daniel. In its current incarnation, booked in Chicago through 2011, Lollapalooza is very different from what you started back in 1991 -- a traveling show with low ticket prices and no corporate sponsors. Why still call it Lollapalooza?

July 20, 2005 – The Greenhornes know a thing or two about eggs and baskets: In recent years members of this Cincinnati, OH, three-piece have played on Karen O's forthcoming solo record, appeared onstage with country outfit Blanche, and served as Loretta Lynn's rhythm section on her critically-acclaimed Van Lear Rose. Bassist Jack Lawrence and drummer Patrick Keeler will be featured on the imminent debut album from the Raconteurs, the Jack White/Brendan Benson collaboration. Keeler fancies himself as something of a photographer as well -- his portfolio includes the terrifying White Stripes publicity photo that accompanied nearly every review of Get Behind Me Satan. In spite of all their musical infidelities though, the Greenhornes found the time to record an EP.