Rolling Stone January 14, 2016

PREVIEW 2016 IS GOING TO ROCK A look at this year’s most anticipated albums, movies and TV shows – from Rihanna’s Anti to the Coen brothers’ Hollywood comedy, Hail, Caesar! Plus: Deep dives into the hip-hop, country and metal records you’re not going to want to miss. EXCLUSIVE MÖTLEY CRÜE SAY GOODBYE We went behind the scenes at Mötley Crüe’s fi nal show, as the glam-metal stars closed out their storied career in front of a frenzied L.A. crowd on New Year’s Eve. LIST THE WORST MOVIES OF 2015 It was a year of great movies... and then there was Entourage. From sucky sequels to star vehicles gone very wrong, we count down the baddest of the bad blockbusters. TV THE YEAR IN LATE NIGHT Goodbye, Letterman and Stewart; hello, Trevor Noah and Colbert Late Show. Rob Sheffield looks at the…

1. Foo Fighters “The Neverending Sigh” The Foos banged out their new Saint Cecilia EP at a Texas hotel. You can hear it in this breakneck rocker, which Dave Grohl has said dates back to the Nineties – it’s got a wild, roaring energy that hits a sweet spot. 2. Animal Collective “FloriDada” Four minutes of glorious babytalking nonsense from our favorite neo-Deadhead dudes, with a little less reverb on the vocals and every bit as much catchy weirdness in the melody. 3. Thom Yorke “Silent Spring” (YouTube) Yorke gets his Neil-circa- Harvest on for this ballad, which he performed at a recent climatechange event. Could a new Radiohead album be next? 4. Sleigh Bells “Champions of Unrestricted Beauty” What do you get when you turn down the guitars from a hella-loud noise-pop band? A surprisingly pretty…

The country singer – whose debut LP, Traveller, scored a big Album of the Year nomination from the Grammys – told us about fi ve songs that inspire him as a songwriter. Hank Williams Jr. “Old Habits” Every line in this song is fantastic: “I use Lifesavers to help get me officigarettes/But you know, for your love, I ain’t found no Lifesavers yet.” It’s a lesson in economy. Dolly Parton “Coat of Many Colors” Dolly is a brilliant technical singer, but her ability to make you believe what she’s saying is what speaks most to me. Tom Petty “Crawling Back to You” Petty’s always been a country songwriter to me. His songs are full of these remarkable images. Louis Armstrong “What a Wonderful World” This one’s a standard for a reason. It’s a good life philosophy, and it’s…

The Outsider THE BERNIE SANDERS COVER story should be mandatory reading for all Americans [The Rolling Stone Interview, RS 1249]. Voters should be very angry and must go into the 2016 election season with their eyes wide open. If Sanders gets the Democratic nod, he’s got my vote. Joan Rosner Firmender Seymour, CT NEVER HAVE I DEVOURED A cover story like I did when the Sanders issue arrived. I’m recommending it to everyone as a great primer for learning what the guy’s about. Val Bauer, Portland, OR I THOROUGHLY ENJOYED your article on Bernie Sanders. I only wish you’d asked him about nuclear power. Last year, Vermont shuttered the Vermont Yankee power plant. Readers would have liked to know his thoughts on the future of nuclear. Elaine Dickinson Harwich, MA TIM DICKINSON GETS THIS issue’s MVP award…

THANKS TO TAIBBI, AND A very warm thank-you to the Republican cartoon contenders for providing the most hilarious and entertaining political sideshow ever. I laughed until I cried. William Hall, San Francisco TAIBBI’S REPORTING IS the main reason I resubscribed to Rolling Stone. This was classic work, especially the line about Bush not being the “effortless sociopathic liar” he needs to be to win. Brian J. Iller, Kennewick, WA TAIBBI COULDN’T COVER all the craziness and keep this piece shorter than The Joy Luck Club. The real contest isn’t between the two major parties, but between all the candidates and the one man not repping “the billionaire class”: Bernie. Michael Heister, Guangzhou, China HOW COME YOU PUT DONald Trump on the cover, then write that he’s among “the most dishonest, bumbling pack of presidential candidates in…

1 Adele Is the Exception to Every Rule HOW CAN THE RECORD business survive? “Put good records out,” said Richard Russell, head of British label XL. “That’s it.” Adele, the star of his label, took this advice to heart in late November, selling a mind-blowing 3.38 million copies of her album 25 in its first week – the most since ’NSync’s No Strings Attached sold 2.4 million in a much healthier era. It was a reminder of how much clout sheer talent and star power still hold – but beyond that, not really a blueprint for the rest of the industry. “It’s not going to save everything,” says Ish Cuebas of Trans World Entertainment, one of the few surviving record-store chains. “But it helps.” Adele’s sales were likely boosted by her refusal to…