June 21, 2010 – Name a song you've listened to in the past 24 hours. Probably something from Peaches' Impeach My Bush, because her CD is in my car. "Tent in Your Pants" keeps me upbeat and engaged while I'm driving. If you were to play someone in a rock biopic, who would it be? Patti Smith. When I first heard Horses, it was like listening to all of my favorite "now" bands in one album. But she's so amazing that there's no way I could ever do it. I'd be puking every day. Plus, I don't look anything like her. She's got this gorgeous, heroin-chic thing going on, and I have a moon face. What was the first album you bought with your own money? Radiohead's Amnesiac. Yes, that's how young I am. They became my first sincere love in music. Before that, I was jumping on my bed and listening to Aqua. So who comes after Radiohead on your iPod? Ron Sexsmith. He's a Canadian singer-songwriter.

April 8, 2010 – ALISON GOLDFRAPP: Do you have a favorite Blondie period, or is it all a big blur? DEBBIE HARRY: For me, it was the very early days. New York City was bankrupt, and it was a wild, die-hard time. It was the most of everything: It was the hardest and the most violent and the most stimulating. GOLDFRAPP: I didn't get a record deal until I was 30. How old were you? You weren't that young, were you? HARRY: No, I was practically the same age. I started making music when I was 27 or 28, and we didn't get a deal until I was probably 33. GOLDFRAPP: That's very inspiring. I remember when I was in my 20s and saying, "Shit, when is this going to happen?" And then I thought, "Well, Debbie Harry didn't start until she was older, so it's okay." SPIN: You're both the public face of your bands.

March 11, 2010 – "Kristen, you are so hot!" In the appropriately rank alley behind a small Los Angeles club called the Smell, Cherie Currie, former lead singer of the '70s all-girl band the Runaways, yells out to ingénue-of-the-moment Kristen Stewart, standing a few feet away. Currie could easily be referring to the actress' body temperature: The midday July weather is sweltering, and Stewart, dressed head-to-toe in black leather for the role of Currie's onetime bandmate Joan Jett in The Runaways, is wiping sweat from her forehead. Stewart is on a smoke break; beside her, Dakota Fanning, who plays Currie in the movie, munches on a veggie doodle.

March 3, 2010 – As risque as it is, the upcoming movie The Runaways (in theaters March 19) barely touches on the most harrowing experiences of the band's former lead vocalist Cherie Currie, who joined the all-girl proto-punk group in 1975 and quit two years later. In Neon Angel, an expanded edition of her 1989 book on which the film is based, the singer/actress-turned-chainsaw artist reveals how the liberated life of a 16-year-old rock star in Los Angeles included many dark moments, among them rape, abortion, and a nearly fatal addiction to freebased cocaine. Here, she talks with SPIN.com about the film, her friendship with Runaways' co-founder Joan Jett, and the disturbing scenes Dakota Fanning, who portrays Currie, didn't have to play. What did you include in this new version of the book that you couldn't in the original?I named names.

February 21, 2010 – "Are you on anything?" Courtney Love pauses suddenly from her simultaneous sewing, smoking, and theorizing about how the only way to be successful by the age of 25 is to forget that you have parents and grills me about the contents of my bloodstream. It's the week before Christmas and we're sitting at the kitchen counter of the spacious, modern Tribeca loft she's rented from a Russian supermodel for the past three months, currently cluttered with "kook"-the word Love gives to the lacy fabrics and bric-a-brac she dyes or fixes or glues until they look like something belonging to Miss Havisham. Doing so relaxes her, and she is famously difficult to relax. I'm not on anything. "Then why are you shaking?" Because several windows are open and it's freezing outside, so I feel like Demi Moore at the end of St. Elmo's Fire. "So you don't take any meds?" she persists.

February 16, 2010 – Courtney Love has found a home for Nobody's Daughter.

February 3, 2010 – Her character on Lost might have fallen for a rock star, but the musical tastes of Australian actress Emilie de Ravin are much more than groupie-deep. Here, the 28-year-old -- whose next project, Remember Me, (out March 12) finds her canoodling with Twilight heartthrob Robert Pattinson -- reveals the contents of her iPod, including a certain gangsta rap outfit she discovered thanks to RPatz himself. Name a song you've listened to in the last 24 hours. Black Mountain's "Angels." It's psychedelic but very emotional. They sound like an old-school band that has been brought into the present day. What was the last concert you attended? The most memorable was Coachella in 2007. Everyone from Willie Nelson to the Black Keys was there. It's frustrating because there were always at least three bands I wanted to see at any given time, but my friends had drawn up a very strict itinerary.

December 14, 2009 – Lady Gaga, "Bad Romance"Directed by Francis Lawrence Oh, decadence: so 1999. Let's welcome its brief return in this big-budget, fetishistic vision -- which also serves as an important reminder that mind-bogglingly absurd outfits happen everywhere, not just in Japan. Death Cab for Cutie, "Little Bribes"Directed by Ross Ching Using rocks, Post-Its, and, best of all, melted cheese, an inventive fan spells out the lyrics to Gibbard and Co.'s song -- a far more advisable expression of devotion than, say, tattooing the words to "Transatlanticism" on your torso. The xx, "Crystalised"Directed by Alex Flick and Masato Riesser A track so good that it's enough to watch the band stand onstage in the dark while cumulus clouds roll by behind them.

November 23, 2009 – Name a song that you've listened to in the past 24 hours."She's Only Happy in the Sun." It's nonstop Ben Harper in my apartment. My first boyfriend played me this song when I was 14 because my life back then was all about going to Venice Beach. Luckily, we didn't have a bad breakup, so I don't have any painful memories attached to the music. On that note, what song do you associate with your first kiss?D'Angelo's "How Does It Feel" was playing at the time -- in my head. Honestly, the most memorable make-out sessions I ever had were in [the 2003 movie] Thirteen. Those were hardcore. Who would you like to portray in a rock biopic?Rickie Lee Jones. Last year I went to see her at the Largo [in L.A.] on Valentine's Day by myself. She seems eccentric.

November 20, 2009 – It's probably a little early to speculate but here goes: New Moon might be the best film this franchise has to offer, and here's why: The first Twilight movie, based on the series of books by Stephenie Meyer, thrived off the unrealized sexual tension between vampire Edward Cullen (Robert Pattinson) and ordinary mortal Bella Swan (Kristen Stewart). Sure, if they were to do it, he might kill her -- but there was something unrealistic about a hot-for-each other duo (whose lust carried on, delightfully, offscreen, as well) steering clear of any carnal action. In New Moon, Edward dumps Bella. Yes, it's for her own protection, but it's a romantic plot twist that's infinitely more interesting.