Rolling Stone Tuesday December 18, 2007

TODAY'S TOP ROCK HEADLINES

ROLLING STONE'S TOP ALBUMS OF 2007 Click HERE to check out Rolling Stone's list of the fifty best albums of 2007, from M.I.A. to Kanye, the White Stripes to McCartney.

JACKSON BROWNE REMEMBERS DAN FOGELBERG Jackson Browne remembers singer-songwriter Dan Fogelberg, who passed away over the weekend from prostate cancer, as "beatiful, an angel." Click HERE for more of what Browne has to say.

ALTERNATE TAKES: MP3 VS. VINYL Click HERE for what executive editor Joe Levy found out about sound quality when he sampled the same song on vinyl, on CD and on iTunes.

READERS' 25 BEST SONGS OF 2007 Click HERE to check out who made the list of 2007's best songs when we let RollingStone.com readers have their say, and click HERE to see how it compares to the magazine's ranking of the year's top 100 songs.

NEW M.I.A. VIDEO, UNCUT: "PAPER PLANES" After anonymous editors removed the gunshot effect in M.I.A.'s "Paper Planes," the Sri Lankan rapper has posted the unedited version on her own. Click HERE to check it out.

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TODAY'S PICKS

DAILY TRACK: Justice — "D.A.N.C.E." The breakout tune from the hypercool Paris dance label Ed Banger (run by Daft Punk's manager) is a blast of glitter-disco joy, with a rubbery bass line and an insistent children's chorus demanding that you "do the dance!" Just try to say no!. Click HERE for more on this and the other tracks that made Rolling Stone's list of the 100 Best Songs of 2007.

DAILY VIDEO: M.I.A. — "Paper Planes"

DAILY REVIEW: Bruce Springsteen — Magic Magic comes on like the album Springsteen's been building up to for the past five years, since he revitalized his sound on 2002's The Rising. These songs are Springsteen at his toughest and most focused, going for the grimly detailed style of Darkness on the Edge of Town and Nebraska. Click HERE for more on this and the other albums that made Rolling Stone's list of the Top 50 Albums of 2007.

ARTIST OF THE DAY: JACKSON BROWNE The complete ROLLINGSTONE.COM archive includes videos, photos, interviews, reviews, and more.

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