Photo: Foley/FilmMagic The Stooges, Genesis, ABBA, the Hollies and Jimmy Cliff were announced as the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame’s Class of 2010. Rolling Stone talked to Iggy Pop and ABBA’s Benny Andersson about the honor and looked back at the careers of all the inductees. U2’s No Line on the Horizon and “Moment of Surrender” topped Rolling Stone’s Top Albums and Top Songs of 2009 list. To find out where Merriweather Post Pavilion and “Empire ...

Photo: Michael Ochs Archive/GettyWe were maybe listening to that Lil Wayne album that maybe leaked thanks to Amazon when we noticed that the soon-to-be-incarcerated Weezy is a big fan of songs with “fire” in the title. “On Fire” is the latest Lil Wayne track to feature a pyromaniacal title, following Tha Carter III’s “Playing with Fire” and TC2’s “Fireman.” Tell us your favorite songs about flames, and on Monday we’ll tally the votes and reveal ...

Photo: Hill/FilmMagic Breaking artist Owl City comes to your neck of the woods to catch “Fireflies,” the Clientele set out in support of their lush Bonfires on the Heath and the Used showcase Artwork as they embark on a nationwide headlining trek. Full dates for all three jaunts below. Owl City Mar. 30 – Boise, ID @ Knitting Factory Mar. 31 – Spokane, WA @ Knitting Factory Apr. 1 – Seattle, WA @ Paramount Theater Apr. 3 – Portland, OR ...

Photo: Mazur/WireImage Rolling Stone has confirmed that Steven Tyler fired his new management team and signed with Mötley Crüe and Buckcherry’s managers Allen Kovac and Eric Sherman at 10th Street Entertainment. Less than a year ago Tyler parted ways with Aerosmith manager Trudy Green and signed with John Greenberg and Jason Flom at Union Entertainment Group. The move enraged his bandmates. “It just kind of splits up the tribe,” Aerosmith drummer Joey Kramer told Rolling Stone ...

John Frusciante finally confirmed this week that after two tours of duty he is no longer a member of the Red Hot Chili Peppers. Frusciante was the guitarist behind five of the Rock Hall-nominated band’s best albums, and while he says the split was amicable, we have to admit we’re saddened by his departure. To pay tribute to Frusciante, this week’s Flashback jumps back to the 1990 Pinkpop Festival, with the RHCPs performing Mother’s Milk’s ...

The Rolling Stone editors have unveiled the 25 best albums and songs of 2009, and U2 top both lists with No Line on the Horizon and its single “Moment of Surrender.” Jay-Z takes second place on the songs list with his inescapable “Empire State of Mind” and The Blueprint 3 scores Number Four on our albums countdown. Chew over the results — and compare our rankings with the Readers’ Poll — here: • The 25 Best ...

Photo: Neal/AFP/GettyJimmy Page plans to return to the stage in 2010, but it won’t be alongside the rest of Led Zeppelin. With Robert Plant and Alison Krauss working on the follow-up to the Grammy-winning Raising Sand and John Paul Jones now playing with Josh Homme and Dave Grohl in Them Crooked Vultures, Page is tired of waiting to rock and will take whatever new material he’s cultivated to the stage next year. “We’re running up to ...

http://i.realone.com/assets/rn/img/2/6/1/4/31444162-31444167-slarge.jpgMuse, “Knights of Cydonia” [The Integrals Remix] The integrals bring out the disco at the center of Muse’s soaring art rock, turning “Knights” into a bleak and gritty electro stomper. Radiohead, “Videotape” [Xaphoon's Dubstep Remix] The loveliest song on In Rainbows gets even lovelier, thanks to a tripping backbeat and weird washes of synth. Pixies, “Where Is My Mind?” [Bassnectar Remix] Bassnectar reconfigures the Pixies’ dizzying original, bringing Black’s sneer even further to the fore and brightening the backdrop with ...

Photo: Joyner/WireImageThe Flaming Lips will release their version of Pink Floyd’s The Dark Side of the Moon (one of Rolling Stone’s 500 Greatest Albums) digitally starting December 22nd. The Lips’ Dark Side — full title The Flaming Lips and Stardeath and White Dwarfs With Henry Rollins and Peaches Doing The Dark Side of the Moon — will be an iTunes exclusive for one week until December 29th, at which point it’ll head over to the ...

Photo:GUILLOT/AFP/Getty The Facebook campaign to make Rage Against the Machine’s “Killing in the Name” the U.K.’s Number One Christmas single has gotten so much attention Rage are carrying a slim edge heading into the December 20th deadline, and now even Paul McCartney is commenting on the race. As Rolling Stone previously reported, U.K. music fans started up a Facebook group to help Rage’s song beat The X Factor winner Joe McElderry’s “The Climb” to protest ...