• At Lollapalooza, we survived the Rage riots, caught Radiohead, Kanye, hung out with Perry Farrell and the Black Keys and a whole lot more. Check out all our coverage here.
• Iron Man and Tropic Thunder star Robert Downey Jr. took over the cover to talk about how he survived years of addiction to become the new king of the summer box office. Peter Travers also dove into the actor’s acclaimed filmography to spotlight RDJ’s best performances.
• We discovered that Bono is a RollingStone.com reader as the U2 frontman tried to post his own recollections about recording Boy in the comments section of David Fricke’s review. He went over word count, but thankfully you can read the full text here.
• Wolfmother lost two members and Iggy & the Stooges lost all their gear.
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