Learning to fly

No one notices Bruce Springsteen. He makes no effort to hide—black T-shirt, blue jeans, Wayfarer sunglasses, honky-tonk cowboy boots—but for a few minutes, the most famous son of the Jersey Shore achi

SLASH WAS THERE when, in the aftermath of Guns N’ Roses’ 1987 debut album, Appetite for Destruction, the band suddenly exploded onto a chaotic arc from Sunset Strip hopefuls to one of the biggest, mos

The punk rock landmark that keeps on giving celebrates half a century with an expanded anniversary edition produced by bassist Tony Shanahan.

BOB DYLAN ’ S 18th BOOTLEG SERIES INSTALMENT – THROUGH THE OPEN WINDOW – IS AN AUDIO ANALOGUE TO A COMPLETE UNKNOWN: AN UNFURLING DOCUMENT OF A SEARING YOUNG TALENT IN THE ACT OF BECOMING. BUT BECOMING WHAT? ROCKER? FOLKIE? LOVER? POET? POLITICIAN? DIGGING INTO PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED MUSIC FROM 1956 TO ’63, MOJO MARVELS AT DYLAN’S FIRST GREAT PHASE ALONG WITH ITS STILL-STUNNED EYEWITNESSES. “IT WAS EARTH-SHAKING,” THEY TELL DORIAN LYNSKEY .

AFTER SLASH AND Duff McKagan exited Guns N’ Roses in the mid-Nineties, things went kinda sideways for a bit. The band kept rolling, but it was host to a cavalcade of guitar players, from Buckethead to

As metal’s most iconic band celebrate their golden jubilee, Steve and Bruce take us inside their epic half-century journey – and what comes next