Issue 1242 >> August 27, 2015 $4.99The Original Gangstas of N.W.A Tell AllDr. Dre& Ice CubeDavid Gilmour: Pink Floyd Is DeadIs Apple Taking Over the Music Business?Taibbi: On Board the GOP Clown CarNobody knows eggs better than Bacon, Kevin Bacon. Thats why I know an egg is a great way to get 6 grams of high-quality protein for 70 calories, and no sugar or carbs. Perfect for when youve got your hands full being carried by someone whos got their hands full.IncredibleEgg.orgDavid Gilmour: new album, new tour. Page 16How Trump has shaken up the GOP. Page 38Reinventing Carly Rae Jepsen. Page 24August27, 2015 RollingStone.com| Rolli ngStone| 5American GangstasInside the messy, prophetic riseof N.W.A, the most dangerous hip-hop group in the world.By Brian HiattThe Bee KillersAmericas pollinators are vanishing, and a silent spring could become reality. Whywont the EPA do more?By Alex Morris44Apple Reinvents Radio Beats 1 has become the companys secret weapon.Gilmours New TripPink Floyds guitarist on his new solo album and why the Floyd is really, really over this time.David Simon Gets MadThe Wire creator on his new series and whats destroying American political discourse.Fall Books PreviewFrom Tom Petty to Patti Smith, inside the seasons best rock reads.NATIONAL AFFAIRSThe GOP Clown CarMatt Taibbi on the road with the Republican Party circus. RECORD REVIEWSBack to ComptonDr. Dre sums up his legacy on a brilliant and confounding album.MOVIESSpy Movies Never DieCan The Man From U.N.C.L.E. nd retro new life on lm?FEATURESROCK & ROLLDEPARTMENTSAll the NEWS THAT FITSRS1242ON THE COVER Dr. Dre (left) and Ice Cube photographed at Smashbox Studios, Culver City, California, July 14th, 2015, by Mark Seliger.Dr. Dre: Styling by Dianne Garcia. Grooming by Kenny Hailey. Makeup by Amy Barkzi. T-shirt by Bon Choix Couture. 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Play it on repeat at top volume, and the emotional catharsis will make up for any hearing loss that results.3. Laura Marling Do I Ever Cross Your Mind YouTube After seeing this clip from the Eng-lish folk singers recent tour, where she covers a lovely old Dolly Parton tune, we know itll be crossing our minds all the time.7. YG Twist My Fingaz The man behind 2014s excellent My Krazy Life comes back even harder on his new single, kicking slick ows over a classic-sounding G-funk beat.6. Mark RonsonI Sat by the Ocean The Midas-touched pop producer and a supergroup including Tame Impalas Kevin Parker put a chilled-out spin on this Queens of the Stone Age jam in a radio performance.5. Prince Stare Sufering from a severe groove deciency? No worries: Nine out of 10 funk doctors recommend check-ing out this supery single from His Purple Majesty to get your levels right back where they need to be. (Please note: Funk doctors do not necessarily have actual medical degrees.)2. The WeekndCant Feel My Face videoRemember when this guy was all about druggy bedroom jams? Now hes gone all Michael Jackson witness the clip for his latest unbelievably catchy pop smash, where hes so hot he literally catches on re.We asked the Kiss co-founder who joined the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame with the band last year to tell us what he thinks of ve songs. CLASSICPatti SmithFree MoneyThis is actually one of the better-written songs on Horses. Patti sounds plaintive, and then she spits out the lyrics, which she does better than almost anyone.The KinksDedicated Follower of FashionOne of my all-time fa-vorite bands. I wish more modern bands listened to and absorbed the Kinks. The Bee GeesI Started a JokeThe pre-disco-era Bee Gees wrote and recorded some of the great pop songs, almost on a Beatles level, like this Robin Gibb lead vocal. NEWKendrick LamarFor Free?Hilarious. This dick aint free, Lamar says. Indeed! Lesson well learned.Lamb of God512While I like the backing track here, I must confess this type of vocal styling what would happen if a werewolf tried singing? just aint my thing. Not that Im claiming I can sing, mind you.Gene SimmonsCLOCKWISE FROM TOP LEFT: THEO WARGO/GETTY IMAGES; PAUL ZIMMERMAN/GETTY IMAGES; JEFFREY MAYER/WIREIMAGE; KRISTIAN DOWLING/GETTY IMAGES; ANDY CASEY/SPLASH NEWS/CORBIS; CINDY ORD/GETTY IMAGESCRISP LIKE AN APPLE. BREWED LIKE A BEER.2015 REDDS BREWING COMPANY, MILWAUKEE, WICORRESPONDENCELOVE LETTERS & ADVICEIts Kims Worldi wasgenui nelysur-prisedbytheKimKardashi-ancoverstory[American Woman, RS 1239/1240]. Van-essa Grigoriadis wrote a funny, subtleprofileaboutanAmer-icanrealitystarwho,itturns out, is charmingly self-aware.Toni Royce, via the Internetkardashi an sconceptu-alizationofworldaffairs VladimirPutinsannexation of the Ukraine, the crisis in the Middle East and her obsession with contouring was breath-taking.David Kutz, Santa Fe, NMbravo to kanye west for his supportive response to Cait-lynJennerstransition.Im sorry that she made Kim keep hersecretforsolong,though. That was totally unfair.Ed Lancaster, via the Internetvery disappointed to see Kardashianonthecoverof RS.Ihadnoissuewiththe Dzhokhar Tsarnaev cover, but Kardashianshowcasingher cleavagejustmakesmesad. Are we that vapid that this is all we want to be informed about? Meg Morrissey-Prodromou Winchester, MAA Dark Knightsuperbpi eceonsuge Knightandtheimplosionof Death Row [The Fall of Suge Knight,RS1239/1240].Who knewthatDreandSugeboth hadchildrenwithMichelle? Or that Suge wants 10 percent of Dres Apple deal? RS brings together stories like no one else.Doug C., New YorkLETTERS to ROLLING STONE, 1290 Avenue of the Americas, New York, NY 10104-0298. Letters become the property of ROLLING STONE and may be edited for publication.E-MAIL letters@rollingstone.comSUBSCRIBER SERVICES Go to RollingStone.com/customerserviceSubscribe Renew Cancel Missing Issues Give a Gift Pay Bill Change of AddressContact UsIn his rst story for the magazine, Ben Woford proled Ben Schlappig, star of a global online community of travel obses-sives and gamers who target airlines loopholes to y around the world rst-class for free [Up in the Air, RS 1239/1240]. ROLLING STONE readers responded.suchawell-wri tten articleaboutaveryinter-estingguy.Butisnonstop champagneandcaviarre-ally all that glamorous when youresleepingonaplane everysinglenight?How well-traveledcanyoube whenallyouveexplored inacountryistheairport terminal?Kim Thompson, Corning, NYiflewconstantlyfor workinmytwentiesand thirties,international anddomestic,butmy body couldnt withstand the toll. I find the game ofplayingtheairlines fascinatingandmight justgodelvebackinto it.Schlappigisfollow-ing his passion. Hes not hurtinganybody,and hessharingvaluableinfor-mation with people who are interested.Rodger Strickland Via the Internetlikeschlappig, iwas fascinatedbyairplanesas akid.I,however,choseto learn how to fly and get paid to do it rather than sit back and exploit it.Brad Haskin, Seattletheobjecti veofthe Hobby may be traveling, but its not the kind of travel ex-perienceIdfindremotely satisfying.Also,whilenot technicallyillegal,poten-tiallygamingthesystemis immoral.Itseasytothink youreteachingalessonto big, faceless conglomerates, but youre really in it for your own ends. Raymond J. Mark Via the Internetschlappigs life sounds a lot better than being stuck in a miserable, soul-crushing job you hate. Which proba-blydescribes90percentof humanity.Chris Comte, Seattleschlappigappearsto havefarmorecontactwith employeesofmajorairlines thanhedoeswithanykind of close and intimate friends. Healsospendsmuchmore time online than he does in the capital cities he flies to. I find that fascinating, but also profoundly lonely.Mary Ellen McDonaldVia the Internetthesugestoryleftme feelingconflicted.Iwasdis-gusted by his bullying and infi-delity, shocked that his parents arestilltogetherandhappily married,andstrangelymoved by the fact that he gave $30,000 worthoftoystosickkids. Knight may be many things, but predictable is not one of them. Dave Steinfeld, New YorkLiberal Lionyoubastards!likemany ofmyliberalfriends,Ihad written Bernie Sanders off as a candidatewhocouldnotcap-ture the office [Weekend With Bernie,RS1239/1240].His history as an underdog and his humble persona, as reported by Mark Binelli, made me believe he might be able to pull it off.Jonathan LathropLos Alamos, NMproudofmyhomestate ofVermont,Democratsand Republicans alike, for support-ingSandersovertheyears.If youwantthetruemeasureof Bernie, talk to conservatives in Vermont whose trust and vote he has earned, despite his un-wavering honesty about his pro-gressiveviews.Hisrecordof speaking for struggling middle-class Americans is genuine.John Renaud, Long Beach, CAwithapieceonsanders inthesameissue,yougoand put Kim on the cover? John Petrella, via the InternetMumford Misrewhilereadi ngpatrick DoylesgreatpieceonMum-ford&Sons[Mumfords NewRoad,RS1239/1240], IcringedwhenMarcusre-ferred to his sick bandmate as looking fucking awesome. He lookedlikesomethingoutof Schindlers List. Randy MacShara, Fairport, NYThe Frequent Flyer10| Rolli ngStone| RollingStone.com August27, 2015Also available at bn.com/rsgratefuldead.ON NEWSSTANDS NOWAll Cocoa, Coffee, Sugar, and Vanilla are traded in compliance with Fairtrade Standards, 82% excluding liquid ingredients.Visit info.fairtrade.net Ben & Jerrys Homemade, Inc. 2014 Cows: Woody Jackson 1997 20812COur new Cookie Cores have a uniquely spoonable cookie center surrounded by chunk-filled ice cream. Its a whole new way to love cookies. So start spooning.Asofearlyaugust,apple Music,thecompanyslong-awaited on-demand streaming service, seemed to be a success: Overcomingtechnicalglitchesandcom-plaintsaboutacomplexinterface,Apple announced11milliontrial-subscription sign-ups in ve weeks more than half of chiefcompetitorSpotifyspaidinterna-tional user base. But the music industry was atleastashappyaboutanotheraspect ofApplesmusicaleforts:thecompanys freeBeats1onlineradiostationfocus-ingonnewmusic,whichbroadcastslive 24/7.Itsexciting,saysGlassnoteRe-cords president Daniel Glass. Everyones watching them on music discovery.WhenDrakewantedahigh-profile debutinlateJulyforChargedUpa salvoinhisbeefwithrapperMeekMill he chose his own Beats 1 show, a venue that hadnt even existed the month before. Beats1ismeanttopromoteAppleMu-sics on-demand streaming, which debuted alongside it on June 30th, but the station is becoming a force in its own right, starting tobreaksongs(NewAmericana,from rising alt-pop star Halsey) and raising ex-August27, 2015 RollingStone.com| Rolli ngStone| 13citement with a new approach to a very old medium though Apple hasnt released lis-tenership numbers, and terrestrial and sat-ellite radio arent going anywhere. Its re-ally simple, says Beats co-founder Jimmy Iovine, who sold the company to Apple last year. All the people of the world listening to the same song at the same time.Itsanicehybridofthepastandthe present,saysVampireWeekendsEzra Koenig, who has his own show, as do Beats co-founderDr.Dre,EltonJohn,Pharrell Williams, Queens of the Stone Ages Josh Homme and St. Vincents Annie Clark. Beatswasworkinghardonplaylists taggedtousersmusicaltastesanap-proachthatcontinueson ONSTAGEHAMILTONTAKESBROADWAYPG.18|Q&AJEFFTWEEDYPG.32Inside Apples Music MovesThe company may be winning the streaming wars will it take over the music industry? By Steve Appleford[Cont. on 14] COURTESY OF APPLE, 3Radio, Radio Clockwise from top left: Beats 1 DJs Annie Clark (St. Vincent); Elton John; Pharrell Williams and Scott Vener. AppleMusic,whichof-ferstargetedsuggestionsunderitsFor You header when Nine Inch Nails front-manTrentReznor,whowasBeatschief creativeofcer,decideditneededsome-thingmoreuniversalaswell.Irealized it would be cool to hear someone talking, says Reznor, to turn on the radio and feel a part of something.Beats1ismeanttohelpbuildwhat Iovine calls an ecosystem around Apple Music.The[otherstreamingservices] feel like they were designed by engineers, saysReznor.AddsIovine,Whyusethe wordserviceifyourenotaservice?If youre just a utility, whats the point?The stations vibe was designed by U.K. DJ Zane Lowe, who garnered a reputation as a tastemaker during a 12-year career at BBC1.Thecombinationofhip-hop,indie rock, pop and EDM that Lowe has brought alongwithheavydosesofU.K.grime artistslendthestationanunapologetic hipness.Itsnotconcernedaboutwhats charting, says Reznor. And we dont do re-search. Just go with what we think is cool.ThethirdsegmentofAppleMusics ecosystem is the Connect network, which givesartistshomepageswheretheycan releasecontentdirectlytofans.Appleis alreadyscoringmajorexclusives,with artists from Dre to Keith Richards using Connect to debut new music striking at a chief selling point of Jay Z-owned compet-itor Tidal. Apple even helped make music videosforDrake,PharrellandEminem. Drake, meanwhile, has reportedly struck anexclusivedealtoreleasenewmusic withAppleforasmuchas$20million. Theyre extending themselves aggressive-ly,saysGlass,toA&Rpeople,toman-agers, to record companies. They want to collaborate creatively.Appleisalreadytheworldslargest music retailer. With its aggressive plays to dominate streaming, not to mention artist developmentandpromotion,theworlds mostvaluablecompanyseemspoisedfor evenmoredecisivedominationofthein-dustry.Butnooneisringingalarmbells just yet. I dont think they have too much power, says Miguel manager Troy Carter. And the players inside Apple see a chance to remake a struggling industry. With the scale, power and resources that Apple has, saysReznor,Icanthinkofnocompany bettertobeapartoftotryandpullthis of. ADDITIONAL REPORTING BY STEVE KNOPPERROCK&ROLL14| Rolli ngStone| RollingStone.com August27, 2015APPLE MUSIC[Cont. from 13]KEVIN MAZUR/WIREIMAGEA GUIDE TO THE STREAMING WARThe streaming future of music is taking shape but which service should you choose? Heres a guide to the three biggest contendersBilly and Pauls Historic Duet billy joel grew up a few miles from LongIslandsNassauColiseum,andhes played there 32 times. So he wasnt just the obvious choice to play the last-ever concert atthestoriedarenahewastheonly choice.Joelperformedformorethan threehoursonAugust4th.Thehigh-light:asurpriseduetwithQueensna-tivePaulSimononHomewardBound, marking the rst time the pair have ever sung together. Thank you, Long Island, a sweaty Joel said, after closing with Only the Good Die Young. Thank you, Nassau Coliseum!ANDY GREENELIVEApple MusicBiggest strengths: Beats 1 radio is unique. Service in-tegrates with iTunes. Deep, smartly curated playlists.Biggest weakness:Interface can be confusing for casual users.Free option: Non-subscribers can use radio including Beats 1 and Connect, but cant access the on-demand library.Exclusive content: Growing from Dr. Dres Compton to Taylor Swifts entire catalog. SpotifyBiggest strengths:Easy to use. Elegant, well-developed mobile app. Lightning-fast streaming.Biggest weakness: Dis-covery features are weaker than Apples. A few major artists (Taylor Swift, Thom Yorke) arent available.Free option: PC users can listen to any track (with ads); app users only get Pandora-like radio.Exclusive content: Lim-ited, but Prince debuted a new song on the service. Tidal Biggest strengths: The only major service with a full-CD-quality tier (for $19.99 a month; Spotify-level quality is $9.99). Fre-quent big-name exclusives.Biggest weakness: High-quality sound is pricey. Glitchy search. Reported business struggles could impact users.Free option: 30-day trialExclusive content: Extensive, from Lil Wayne to Rihanna, though in some cases limited to videos.ASweetPieceofFun. 2015. Wm. Wrigley Jr. Company. Juicy Fruit and all af liated designs are trademarks of Wm. Wrigley Jr. Company or its af liates.ALBUM PREVIEWROCK&ROLL16| Rolli ngStone| RollingStone.com August27, 2015Davidgilmoursupcoming album, Rattle That Lock, is his rst solo LP since 2006s On an Island, but it wasnt supposed to take so long. I meant to get back to work earlier, says the Pink Floyd guitarist. But certain things got in the way. Gilmour is presumablyreferringtothe2008death ofFloydkeyboardist(andhismaincre-ativecollaborator)RickWright;thear-restandfour-monthimprisonmentof his son Charlie over a 2010 political pro-test; and Gilmours decision to transform some of Wrights last recordings into the nalPinkFloydrecord,lastyearsEnd-less River. With all that behind him, Gilmour was nally ready to focus on Rattle That Lock (dueoutSeptember18th),whichheco-producedwithRoxyMusicguitaristPhil Manzanera. Its a loose concept record that follows a mans thoughts over the course of a single day, as he contemplates everything from drone warfare to the sorrow of death to the challenges of raising kids.Many of the lyrics were written by Gil-mourswifeandlongtimelyricist,Polly Samson, and the uid, atmospheric music willbefamiliartoanyonewhosheard Floyds post-Roger Waters catalog. A Boat LiesWaitingisatributetoWrightthat features David Crosby and Graham Nash on background vocals. I recorded the roll-ingpianoonthatsongonaminidisc18 years ago, Gilmour says. You can hear my son Gabriel squawking on it as a baby, and hes now 18. Polly thought the rolling mo-tion suggested the sea, and Ricks big love was sailing his yacht. It just re-minded me of him.On September 12th, Gil mour kicksofaEuropeantour.Itll bethefirsttimehesdonea tour,PinkFloydorsolo,with-outWrightonkeyboardsin morethan30years.Gil mour is still guring out the set list Wrights absence makes it high-lyunlikelythattheFloydclas-sicEchoes,whichfeatures Wrightonvocals,willmake the list. It wouldnt be right to play that song, says Gilmour. I might do Shine On (You Crazy Diamond)again.Ihavent completelyclosedthedoorto doing Pink Floyd songs. Theyre so much fun.ThetourhitsNorthAmer-icainMarch;sofar,onlyfour citieshavebeenannounced.I wanttoplayplacesthatarea bit magical and have a good at-mosphere,Gilmoursays.My worry is whether Ill enjoy it as muchasIdidlasttime.That tour was such a treat, and I just hope with-out Rick there it will be as much fun. Endless River got some Pink Floyd fans hoping the band still might have some life leftinit,butGilmourisquicktoclamp downonthosethoughts.Thatpartof my life gave me so much joy, laughter and creativesatisfaction,hesays.Wehad alotofgoodcompanionship95percent of our time together. I wouldnt want the vepercentthatwasalittlemoresour to make my view of it less enjoyable. But Ivedoneit.Gettingintohugestadiums again doesnt ll me with any joy or antic-ipation. I dont think it would be pleasur-able, so I think I can safely say goodbye to that now. ANDY GREENEDavid Gilmour Finds Life After Pink FloydThe guitarist on his new solo album and why the Floyd is really, really over this timeSHINE ON I can safely say goodbye to Pink Floyd now, says Gilmour.Lily Tomlin is hot. The 75-year-old comedians Netix show, Grace and Frankie (which co-stars Jane Fonda), earned her an Emmy nomination. Her new lm, Grandma, a comedy about a lesbian who helps her granddaughter get an abortion, opens on August 21st. As Tomlin once said, The road to suc-cess is always under construction. Grace and Frankie is a show about two older women rebooting their lives after nding out their husbands are having an afair with each other. Why do you think its clicking? We embrace issues that old people have to deal with that, truthfully, arent so diferent from what younger people deal with. You can start over at any time, you know.In Grandma, your character helps her granddaughter get an abortion at a time when access is being rolled back across the country.Gloria Steinem famously said, If men could get pregnant, abortion would be a sacrament.You married your partner, Jane, in 2013. You didnt hide your relation-ship, but you didnt make an an-nouncement either. It wasnt easy for me to come out. When I was doing specials in the Sev-enties, everybody knew that Jane and I were a couple. I had one of our writers say to me, I think you and Jane should come to work in diferent cars. I said, Well, were not gonna go out and get another car just to drive to work!You hit back with a joke. I was always really nimble, you know. I couldnt betray myself or lie about myself. I was on The View not long be-fore I came out. Barbara [Walters] said something like, Youve never been married. Have you just never found the right guy? I said, Now, Barbara, you and I both know thats not the reason. And she just shut right up. LOGAN HILL LILY TOMLIN: DONT CALL IT A COMEBACKCOMEDYFROM TOP: JESSE DITTMAR/REDUX; KEVIN WESTENBERGROCK&ROLLAugust27, 2015 18| Rolli ngStone| RollingStone.com JOAN MARCUSI feela bout100pounds lighter!saysLin-ManuelMi-randa.Lessthanaweekbefore Hamiltonsopeningnighton Broadway,thehip-hop-infusedmusicals playwright,composer,lyricistandstar ishangingoutinhisdressingroomat theRichardRodgersTheatre,celebrat-ing the fact that hes nally done revising the mammoth script well, almost. I only have one line to add, he says, and thats the last thing Im going to do. The production, which traces Alexander Hamiltonslifestoryinsoaringmelodies andquick-wittedrapverses,hasalready connected in a big way: After a successful of-Broadwayrun,theshowhasearned advanceticketsalesofmorethan$30 millionandwoncosignsfromStephen Sondheim and President Obama. But for Miranda,itstillfeelslikeapassionproj-ect. It took me six years to write this fuck-ingshow,saysMiranda,whoplaysthe title role. You can only do that if youre in love with your subject.Theideafortheshowdatesbackto 2008, when Miranda fresh of opening his rst Broadway musical, the Tony-win-ning In the Heights read historian Ron ChernowsbiographyAlexanderHamil-tononvacation.Hebegansketchingout Hamilton Takes BroadwayInside writer-star Lin-Manuel Mirandas hip-hop-infused, Obama-approved hitwhathethoughtatrstmightbeacon-ceptalbumaboutHamiltonsextraordi-narypathfromCaribbean-bornorphan to pivotal statesman to loser of a fatal duel withrivalAaronBurr.IwentfullAn-drew Lloyd Webber in my mind, he says. I wanted to write songs that contained all the policy and the history, but felt as dense as my favorite Big Pun or Jay Z raps the stuffwhereyourestillcatchingtriple- entendres 10 listens in.Rap and theater have always gone hand inhandforMiranda,35,whogrewup lovingbothgolden-agehip-hopandhis parentsBroadwaycastalbumsasakid inupperManhattan.WhileI wasmemorizingBizarreRide II the Pharcyde, I was also play-ingthePirateKinginPirates ofPenzanceinninthgrade, hesays.Imattractedtosto-rytelling,whetheritsBiggies Warning or [Gilbert and Sul-livans]IAmtheVeryModel of a Modern Major-General. But even as he excelled in his magnet schools theater program, he wondered whether the histor-ically white world of Broadway would have room for an actor with Puerto Rican her-itage.PaulSimonsCapemancameout my senior year, he says of the 1998 musi-cal,whichfeaturedsalsastarsMarcAn-thony and Rubn Blades in leading parts. The failure of that show broke my heart: Theres another show with roles for Latino actors thats not going to get done. ButIntheHeightshighlightedLatino storiestospectacularsuccess.Miranda and his team have gone further with Ham-ilton, casting actors and actresses of color to join him onstage in the roles of George Washington, Thomas Jeferson, Burr and other long-dead white people. This is what ourcountrylookslike,andtheaudience acceptsit,Mirandasays.Insomany ways, the people we call the Founding Fa-thersarethesemythicguresbutthey were people. I think the casting of the show humanizes them, in a way, because theyre not these distant marble creatures.Miranda, whose parents could rarely af-fordtotakehimtoBroadway, has taken steps to democratize Hamiltonsaudiencebyofer-inglotteriedfront-rowtickets for$10everynight.Theme-dianBroadwaytheatergoeris a white lady between 45 and 55 years old who has an income of $250,000 a year, he says. We haveauniqueopportunitywithpeople whofeellikemusicalsarentforthem,to say, This is for you. WhileHamiltontakesplaceinthelate 18thandearly19thcenturies,itsfullof implicitandexplicitcommentaryonhot- button contemporary issues from racism to gun control. Art changes hearts and minds inawaythatnothingelsereallydoes, Miranda says. But I have no idea what the efects of this show will be. Thats the excit-ing thing.SIMON VOZICK-LEVINSONSTAGEHAMMING IT UP Miranda (center) with the cast of Hamilton Im attracted to storytelling, whether its Biggie or Gilbert and Sullivan.COLORED DENIM WAYFARERFREE MUSIC FOR EVERYTHING YOU DOGoogle Play Music has curated radio stations to make every moment better.So next time you feel like sitting poolside and drinking out of a coconut, visit Google Play Music for Sun Out, Vibe Out Radio full of laid-back rap and reggae favorites made for summer weekends.Try for free at g.co/musicor tapon your Android phoneLISTEN TOSUN OUT, VIBE OUTRADIO22| Rolli ngStone| RollingStone.com August27, 2015ROCK&ROLLLarry campbell has been on-stage for some of the greatest rock &rollmomentsofthepast30 years,asBobDylanssidemanfrom 1997to2004andasLevonHelms bandleaderandco-writerduringthe drummers late-career comeback. Now, Campbell is stepping into the spotlight, alongwithhiswife,TeresaWilliams. The couples new self-titled debut high-lights Campbells endearingly raw tenor andWilliamsTennesseetent-reviv-al-trained howl and includes a cover of theLouvinBrothersYoureRunning Wild,featuringalostdrumtrackby Helm. After years of being mostly apart inourmarriage,suddenlywerework-ing together all the time, says Williams.Larry Campbell on his new LP and touring with a legendLife With DylanThe 1981 saturday night LiveperformancebyL.A. punkrockersFearremains oneoftheshowsmostnotorious punksstormedthestage,one yelled,NewYorksucks!andthe group was banned from SNL. Fear gotthegigthankstosingerLee Vings friendship with the late John Belushi. Now, an unreleased song, Neighbors,thatBelushirecord-ed with the band is being released Helm,accordingtoCampbell,was incapable of being inauthentic. Dylan was a diferent story. Mercurial, says Campbell.Itsinallthebooksabout him,anditsalltrue.Dylanhadthe bandlistentoDeadbootlegsasan exampleofhowtocoverasong,and hesometimesjoinedgroupmembers forbackstagecardgames.Hanging withhimislikehangingwithany-body else, says Campbell, then its not. Hes a complex guy. For his rst three daysonthejob,Campbellrehearsed oldrockandcountrycoversnoneof whichDylaneverplayedlive.There wasalotofoff-the-cuffstuff,says Campbell.Itwasaveryamorphous existence. PATRICK DOYLEFOUND TREASUREJohn Belushis Great Lost Punk-Rock RecordCHECKING INJulien Temple had a front-row seat during the London punk revolu-tion of the Seventies, directing two classic Sex Pistols documentaries, 1980s The Great Rock n Roll Swindle and 2000s denitive The Filth and the Fury. This summer, 11 Temple docs are screening at New Yorks Lincoln Cen-ter, including Never Mind the Baubles, a Christmas-themed Pistols doc, and The Clash New Years Day 77. (Several of the lms are also on YouTube.)It was a kinship, says Temple of his love for punk. Like punk, it was born out of necessity: I had no money. Among the lms in the series, theres a documentary about Ray Davies of the Kinks (and one about his brother Dave) and a couple of examinations of the Glastonbury festi-val. When I look at the 77 footage, I dont think of it as nostalgia, Temple says. I think of it as a weapon to give kids today in order to do something about whats going on. DAVID FEARTHE GLORY DAYS OF THE PISTOLS AND THE CLASHJoe Strummer, 1977as a single. Were proud of it, says Ving,whowrotethesongforBe-lushis1981filmNeighbors(the moviesproducerscutitfromthe soundtrack). Ving got permission to use the song from Belushis widow andmixeditatDaveGrohlsstu-dio.BelushiandFearhadrecord-ed it months before the comedians 1982 death, which still haunts Ving: So devastating. It disrupted all of our lives. KORY GROWROCK DOCSBOB AND ME Dylan and Campbell onstage in 2002Belushi and Ving, 1981 FROM TOP: HARRY SCOTT/REDFERNS/GETTY IMAGES; PHOTOSHOT/EVERETT COLLECTION; BARBARA BIROAugust27, 2015 RollingStone.com| Rolli ngStone| 23FROM TOP: PAUL SCHIRALDI/HBO; MATT MCCLAIN/THE WASHINGTON POST/GETTY IMAGESHOT SHOW Ofallthosewhohelped revolutionize TV in the past 20 years,DavidSimonhasbeen themostpoliticalandleast commercial. From The Wire to Treme, hes consistently dived into the countrys thorn-iest political issues: the War on Drugs, in-ner-city schools, the invasion of Iraq, post-KatrinaNewOrleans.InhisnewHBO miniseries,ShowMeaHero,hetakeson perhaps his least popular subject yet: public housing. A true story set in Yonkers, New York,inthelateEighties/earlyNine-ties,theshowstarsOscarIsaac asNickWasicsko,ayoung mayor forced to confront an enragedconstituencyafter a federal court orders 200 unitsofaffordablehous-ing to be built in the citys lily-whiteneighborhoods. WhatunfoldsisanAmeri-can tragedy in six acts.What drew you to the material?Fifteen years ago, I read the book [Show Me a Hero], by Lisa Belkin. I was living in Baltimore, a city that had fundamental in-terracial inequality, and we were contend-ing with the same argument and the man-ner in which the government fails to deal with it. Theres an abject lesson in the jour-neyofNickWasicsko.Whilehewasnta perfect creature, he had a moment where heactuallyattendedtothispathology. And they blew him up, they just blew him up.Inwhatssupposedlyapluralisticso-ciety, there was so much trauma over 200 units of public housing in a city of 200,000 people.Canyouimaginethetraumaif Americareallytriedtoincorporatethe non-whitepopulationeconomicallyand socially and politically?Why dont we?I dont mean to blame just the political system because race, politically, is a third rail. But were the fucking electricity run-ning through the rail. Its us. Theres a sig-nicant plurality who would prefer to have two separate Americas. What are you most disappointed with in the political discourse?The rise of libertarianism in this coun-try. There are certainly places for exam-ple, the drug wars where I nd myself in completeagreementwiththelibertarian ideal.Buttheyalwaysdis-solve into a juvenile notion that the solution for bad gov-ernance is no governance. But wethepeoplearethegovern-ment. Yes, its a constant struggle to enhance governance and diminish the ef-fects of bad governance. Its a never-ending ght. But thats democracy. Thats the job. Why has housing policy changed in the past few decades?Public housing was a New Deal policy. It was an idea undertaken for white people. At the time, it was looked at as one of the healthiestanti-Depressioninitiativesun-dertaken.Whenpeopleofcolor arrivetolooktowardthesame dynamics, it becomes, Why are we building houses for the poor? We went from the idea that gov-ernment can do things to lift up people who have the least in our societytotheideathatgovern-ment shouldnt be in the business of helping anybody.How would you x the system?Thegovernmentwouldfinanceelec-tions.Nobodycouldgiveanyfucking moneytoanycandidate,ever.Itfreaked meoutthattheSupremeCourtequated moneytospeech.Whenmoneyistrans-formed into words, the words are, by and large, stupid, self-serving and disastrous. Your next pilot is also set in the past: the sex industry in Times Square of the Seven-ties.Thatsoundsmorecommercialthan what you usually tackle. You would think so, but Ill nd a way to fuck it up. Im determined not to use porn to sell porn. You cant be a Puritan about what youre depicting, nor can you be pru-rient. If people are getting of to the show, weve failed. When you go to the big executives with ideasforshowsdealingwithwhatails America, whats your pitch? Begging. Im begging an actor to take a role.Imbeggingtheexecutivetogiveus enoughtonishtheshow.WhenIwasa reporter, I was begging for quotes. Theres nothingwrongwithbegging;itsjustan-other form of sales. In Dif cult Men, author Brett Martin posited that you and fel-lowauteurslikeDavidChase are hard to work with and thats what makes you great. What did you make of that theory?Theres only one place where I was any kind of a son of a bitch: I didnt tell characters when they were being killed until right be-forethescriptwaspublished. But theres an old Irish proverb that goes, Godusedtotellmenwhentheirdayof death was coming, to give them some ad-vance warning, but then the cows stopped beingmilkedandtheeldswentfallow and the barn door fell of its hinge. So God said, You know what? Im keeping this to myself. I do like to argue. I like the writ-ers room to argue. At a certain point, you have to end the argument, but argument is good. SEAN WOODSDavid Simon Is Mad as HellThe Wire creator on his new series and whats destroying American political discourseLOST IN YONKERS Oscar Isaac and Carla Quevedo in Show Me a HeroTheres a signicant plurality who would prefer to have two separate Americas.SimonROCK&ROLL24| Rolli ngStone| RollingStone.com August27, 2015in 2012, carly rae jepsens CallMeMaybelodgeditself in the global brain for an entire summer, top-ping the charts for nine weeks and establishing Jepsen as a budding teen-pop star. Then things startedtogowrong.Jepsenclaimsherlabel rushedouthernextalbum,Kiss.Wepushed itthroughintwomonthstochasethatsong, shesays.Kissssalesweredisappointing,and Jepsens next move was to take a role on Broadway in Cinderel-la. She found herself somewhat allergic to new music instead, shedlistentojazzandEight-ies hits by Cyndi Lauper, Prince andMadonnaasshejoggedaroundManhat-tan. I saw Cyndi [Lauper] play in Osaka and wasamazedthathersongsstillsoundedso fresh,soyearningandpainful,shesays.I wanted to put out songs like that, right now.Jepsen took her time making her new Eight-ies-washedalbum,Emotion.Determined toshakeherbubblegumimage,shereached outtoco-writerslikeDevHynesofBlood OrangeandVampireWeekendsRostamBat-manglij. The result is an assertive, nuanced LP thatshowsofhersongwritingchops:Now,I can show up to photo shoots and be like, Im so happy to be here, but I dont want to wear the ufy pink dress. RACHEL SYME Reinventing Carly Rae JepsenUPDATEFROM TOP: MATTHEW WELCH; ABC PHOTO ARCHIVES/ABC/GETTY IMAGESJazz, Prince and Cyndi Lauper: JepsenInonecornersatgorevidal, authorandliberalbonvivant;inthe otherwasWilliamF.BuckleyJr., talk-showhostandfounderofthecon-servativeNationalReview.Itwas1968, andABCNews,desperateforratings, invitedthemtodebatethepresiden-tialconventionsover10nights.ABC washopingforsomereworksandgot them.BythetimeVidalcalledBuck-leyacrypto-NaziandBuckleythreat-enedtosockhisqueeropponentin thefaceonliveTV,ABCrealizedithad struck gold.ThatisthecenterpieceofBestofEne-mies,adocumentarydirectedbyRobert Gordon and Morgan Neville that suggests thisclashofcelebrityintellectualsgave birthtotheshoutingmatchesthatdom-inatetodayspunditry.AssoonasIsaw the rst debate, I thought, My God, its like they saw the future, Gordon says. Buckley and Vidal trade witticisms and insults as Miami seethes and Chicago burns. Thats why they pissed each other of, says Nev-ille, who directed 2013s backup-singer doc 20 Feet From Stardom. They realized they were dealing with equals.DAVID FEARRevisiting Gore Vidal and William F. Buckleys explosive 1968 debatesThe Roots of the Cable-News ShoutfestDOCUMENTARYBuckley and VidalSAVE $1on ANY ONE (1) Seattles Best Cofee ground (12 oz. or 20 oz.) or K-Cup Pods (10 ct. or 16 ct.) MANUFACTURERS COUPON EXPIRATION DATE: 11/30/2015 CUSTOMER: Expires 11/30/2015. Limit one coupon per person. You pay applicable taxes. Coupon may not be assigned, transferred or reproduced. Any other use constitutes fraud. Cash value .01. RETAILER: Seattles Best Coffee will reimburse you for face value of this coupon plus 8 handling provided it is redeemed by a consumer at the time of purchase for the brand specied. Coupon not properly redeemed will be void and held. Do not double. Mail to: Seattles Best Coffee, PO Box 880212, El Paso, TX 88588-0212. Void where prohibited, taxed or restricted. Keurig,the Cup and Star design, Keurig Brewed,and K-Cup are trademarks of Keurig Green Mountain, Inc., used with permission. 2015 Seattles Best Coffee LLC. All rights reserved.*Based on two independent blind taste tests against Dunkin Donuts Original Blend. The rst test was conducted with 300 cofee consumers in a nationwide study in April and May 2013. The second test was conducted with 447 K-Cup pack consumers in a nationwide study in September and October 2013. Keurig, the Cup and Star design, Keurig Brewed and K-Cup are trademarks of Keurig Green Mountain Inc. used with permission. 2015 Seattles Best Cofee LLC. All rights reserved. ALSO AVAILABLE IN K-CUP PODSROCK&ROLL26| Rolli ngStone| RollingStone.com Photograph byJosh GolemanBOTTOM: JEREMY RYAN/BLACK RIVER ENTERTAINMENTAbout35yearsago,bruce SpringsteenandSteveVan ZandtweremixingTheRiver in Los Angeles when they heard Darlene Love was playing at the Roxy. Love had been one of Phil Spectors go-to sing-ers in the 1960s, powering Hes a Rebel, TodayIMettheBoyImGonnaMarry andotherWallofSoundclassics.Butby theearlyEighties,shehadbeenworking asamaidandwasattemptingacome-back.VanZandtshowedupattheRoxy that night and promised to turn Loves ca-reer around. Steve told me that if I moved to New York he could get me work, Love says. Then he said, I need to record you. Van Zandt got Love regular gigs at New YorkclubsliketheBottomLineandthe PeppermintLounge,butheneverfound timetoproduceanalbumforheruntil last year. I realized theres never going to bearighttime,hesays.Isaid,Fuckit, Im pushing this into my schedule. ForIntroducingDarleneLove(dueout September18th),VanZandtreachedout tomanyofthebestsongwritersinthe world, including Springsteen, Elvis Costel-lo, Barry Mann and Cynthia Weil, Jimmy Webb, and Linda Perry. I said to them, I want big, Van Zandt says. I want horns and strings. Her voice wants that. Songs poured in. Elvis Costello jumped inlikeamotherfucker,saysVanZandt. Hesentmefoursongswithinaday. Star Time for Darlene LoveSteve Van Zandt, Springsteen assist on R&B powerhouses blowout comeback albumIN THE STUDIOSpringsteensentcompletedemosfor Night Closing In and Just Another Lone-lyMile,twoanthemictunesthatwould have sounded right in place on The River. They were already done and I loved them, Love says. But I put that out of my mind and made them Darlene Love songs.Thealbumtitleref lectsthefactthat itsLovesrstalbumofsecularsongsin three decades, and its part of a resurgence of interest in Love that began with 2013s 20FeetFromStardom,anOscar-win-ning documentary about backup singers in which she was prominently featured. [Be-fore the lm], some people didnt even re-alize there was a Darlene Love, she says. They thought I was a gment of Phil Spec-tors imagination. Thealbumincludesonecoversong:a new arrangement of Ike and Tina Turners River Deep Mountain High. That was supposed to be Phil Spectors masterpiece, says Love. But he buried everything, and you cant really hear Tina. Steve wanted to makeanewversionofit.VanZandtisa huge fan of Spector, though Love says the two producers couldnt be more diferent. When you went into the studio with Phil, he was like, This is what youre gonna do, and I dont want to hear nothing else about it, Love says. Steve wants me to be part of the process. Also, he aint crazy. ANDY GREENELove and Van Zandt work out an arrangement at his Manhattan ofce.COUNTRYBalleriniNashville may never get over Taylor Swift abandoning coun-try for pop, but Kelsea Ballerini is doing her best to ease the pain. The 21-year-old singers irty, self-assertive debut hit, Love Me Like You Mean It, is the rst song by a female art-ist to debut at Number One on the country chart since Carrie Underwoods 2005 weeper, Jesus, Take the Wheel. Ballerini is an avowed Swift admirer, and the admira-tion goes both ways Swift took to Twitter to praise the younger star. When Ballerini was a teenage songwriter, one record exec even told her she was too much like her hero, criticism she ended up using to her advantage. You cant be who your inspirations are, she says. Ballerini recently proved that Love Me Like You Mean It wasnt a uke hit when her second single, Dibs, became the most added song on coun-try radio. Her debut album, The First Time, is full of songs that balance strong will and vulnerability. Im so weird and quirky and painfully awkward sometimes, she says. I sing these songs because I need to remind myself to be con-dent. BEVILLE DUNKERLEYKELSEA BALLERINI: NASHVILLE IT GIRLWhy the 21-year-old could inherit Taylor Swifts kingdomAlso available at bn.com/rskeithrichards.ON NEWSSTANDS NOWROCK&ROLL28| To see an exclusive video of Marinas day in Chicago, including behind-the-scenes footage and live clips, visit RollingStone.com/dawntodusk.DAWN TO DUSKpeoplecallmeapopartist,says MarinaDiamandis,theU.K.singerwho makes music as Marina and the Diamonds. But the music Im making isnt pop in terms of being bubblegum or current. Thats cer-tainly true of the ambitious, intimate dance-tinged songs on her new album, Froot, which recentlybecamethefirstreleaseinthe 29-year-oldsinger-songwriterscareerto hittheTop10inAmerica.Wecaughtup withDiamandisthedaybeforeherof cial performanceatLollapalooza,whereshe checked out the Art Institute of Chicago be-foreplayinganintimateacousticgigata Rolling Stone party.ALEXANDRA EATONON THE GO En route to the show: Generally Ill write in my hotel or do some sort of production up until 4:00, and then Ill go to the venue, she says of her touring schedule.ONE OF A KIND Id rather create gigs that are special than do 20 shows a month.Photographs byRyan LowryWALL FLOWER At the Art InstituteFACE TIME Getting made up in her hotel before heading out into the cityMEET AND GREET Diamandis says some fans she meets cry a lot and shake as well.TUNING UP Rehearsing in the greenroom before showtimeROCK&ROLL30| Rolli ngStone| RollingStone.com August27, 2015Hot Rock Reads, From Patti to Petty Autumns most anticipated rock books: Four veterans write their memoirs, and Tom Petty opens up to musician-turned-author Warren Zanes in a revealing biography By Andy GreeneEight years after teaming up with director Peter Bogdanovich for the documentary Runnin Down a Dream, Tom Petty is delving even deeper into his past by cooperating with his longtime friend and Del Fuegos guitarist Warren Zanes on Petty: The Biogra-phy (due November 10th). Zanes even got estranged former Heartbreakers drummer Stan Lynch to break his long silence and dish on their bitter split. Pettys story is a band story, says Zanes. That meant I didnt just need his participation, I needed that band to open up to me. And I needed Stan Lynch to be among them. A.G.Overview: The guitarist and Portlandia star remembers her days with pioneering punk band Sleater-Kinney, wrapping up when the group went on hiatus in 2006. FALL BOOKS PREVIEWTHE DEFINITIVE TOM PETTY HISTORYCarrie BrownsteinHunger Makes Me a Modern GirlOCTOBER27THMotivation: I wanted to have an agency of how I show myself to people, and writing a book is a much easier way of sharing rather than being misconstrued. Revelation: Brownstein blames herself for Sleater-Kinneys implosion: On the 2006 tour that ended the band for eight years, she sufered from shingles and says she became so consumed by anxiety that she began punching herself in the face. I saw the enemy and it was me, she writes. I wanted to destroy it. Pow! I couldnt stop. Pow! You fuck-ing loser. I was in the ring with only myself.Overview: Hynde chronicles her entire life, from growing up in Ohio to hanging out on the 1970s British punk scene to the wild rst few years of the Pretenders.Motivation: Im approaching writing this memoir...as I would an album, she said. I hope it makes you root through your closet and dust of your guitar.Revelation: Hynde spent so much time with the Sex Pistols that she wasnt surprised when Sid Vicious was arrested for Nancy Spungens murder. We were only surprised that hed stuck it out as long as he had. . . . she writes. Who could forget [Nancys] shriek, a sound not unlike that of an untrained cockatoo. Sid SID! WHEN ARE YOU GOING TO MAKE ME MY FAMOUS CREAM-CHEESE BAGEL? SIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIID! Chrissie HyndeReckless: My Life as a PretenderSEPTEMBER8THOverview: While Just Kids fo-cused on one era of her life, this book jumps around in time from the death of her husband, Fred Sonic Smith, to a meeting of an Arctic explorers society in Berlin.Motivation: I wanted to write whatever I felt like, things from literature to cofee to memories of Fred in Michigan. . . . I hopped on a train and kept going.Patti SmithM TrainOCTOBER6THRevelation: Shortly before Bobby Fischer died, Smith ran into the chess master in Iceland. He began testing me immediately by issuing a string of obscene and racially repellent references that morphed into paranoiac conspiracy rants, she writes. Look, youre wasting your time, I said. I can be just as repellent as you, only about diferent subjects. The pair ended up singing Buddy Holly songs for hours. Overview: The full story of Fogertys life and career, from the rise of Creedence Clearwater Re-vival to their highly acrimonious breakup in the early 1970s.Motivation: Im just being brutally honest, Fogerty has said. Im not trying to shock or surprise anybody. Its just the only way Ive been able to exist.Revelation: When Fogertys Creedence bandmates demanded to help write songs in the early Seventies, it was the beginning of the end for the group. The worst thing that ever happened to my band was the Beatles, Fogerty writes, because the guys in my band thought they could be the Beatles. . . . These guys had no clue about what was neces-sary. A vision. Thats just the truth.John FogertyFortunate Son: My Life, My MusicOCTOBER6THMUST-READ BIOFROM TOP, LEFT TO RIGHT: BRIAN RASIC/REX SHUTTERSTOCK; ELEONORA COLLINI/THE HELL GATE/CORBIS; SCOTT LEGATO/WIREIMAGE; XAVI TORRENT/WIREIMAGE; SPLASH NEWS/CORBIS@ILLGANDER, MOROCCO | For me travel is about new sights, smells, and flavors. So when Amazonasked me to take the Kindle Paperwhite on my next trip, I went to the souk with In Morocco as my guide.Follow more journeys on Instagram @AMAZONKINDLEhaveKINDLEwill TRAVEL32| Rolli ngStone| RollingStone.com August27, 2015Q&ARICK DIAMOND/MSBB14/GETTY IMAGESOnjuly16th,wilcoshockedtheir fans in the best way possible: by re-leasingStarWars,thebands rst album in four years, for freeonitswebsite,withnoadvance warning. The album is Wilcos best in at least a decade, full of loose, poppy rockerslikeRandomNameGen-erator and The Joke Explained. FrontmanJefTweedycreditsa tiny ve-watt Fender Champ amp as his muse: It just sounds like thebiggestfuzzboxonEarth thosesoundsremindedme ofglamrockandT.Rex,he says.Iadorethatstuf,but IalwaysthoughtIwasntan-drogynousenoughtopullit of, you know? After recording the basic tracks himself in the WilcoloftinChicago,Tweedy broughtintheothermembers of the band separately to play on them.Theprocesshasprovedso productivethatTweedysayshes alreadyhalfwaynishedwiththe nextWilcoalbum.Ihaveawholelot of material, he says. [The next album] is very diferent.First of, your new album is called Star Wars and theres a cat on the cover. Please explain.Thatpaintingofthatcathangsinthe kitchen at the [Wilco] loft, and every day Id look at it and go, You know, that should just be the album cover. Then I started thinking about the phrase Star Wars recontextual-ized against that painting it was beautiful andjarring.Thealbumhasnothingtodo with Star Wars. It just makes me feel good. Are you even a Star Wars fan?No!Infact,Ididntknowtherewasa newStarWarsmoviecomingoutuntil my lawyer told me. Everybody advised me againstit,becausethereisaheavilypro-tected trademark involved.Why did you decide to surprise-release the album?Iwasreallydreadingthemodernroll-out pattern. Usually, by the time the record comes out, I hate it. I hate talking about it. I hate all the people that have weighed in on it. I think its done a disservice to our records, the way theyve been heard in dribsanddrabs,andalotofpeople thinktheyveheardawholerecord after just hearing one song. Thats not the way Wilco records work. Youve been through a lot in the past few years your brother died in 2013, and your wife was diagnosed with cancer last year. How did that afect your songwriting?Icertainlyhavebeenveryprolicinthe pastfewyears,anditcouldbeforacouple ofreasons,[including]mywifescancerdi-agnoses.Shesdoinggreatnow.Itprovid-edmaybeadeeperneedforthedistractions that Ive learned how to use helpful-ly in my life. Like, no matter what conditionIwasinwithaddic-tionoranything,musichas beenahealthyadaptation inthefaceofsomekindof maladaptation.Buttheres also something more prac-ticalthanthat,whichis thatIvebeenhomealot more than before, and in between chemo sessions andtakingmywifeto radiationandherre-coveringfromthesur-gery,Ivebeenwalk-ing to the loft, making somethingforalittle bit every day. Wilco toured withBob Dylan in 2013. Whats your relationship with Bob like? Wevetalkedalittlebit, andIactuallygetareal-lywarmfeelingfromhim. Ifeltveryinspiredjustbeingin the presence of somebody that has thatfewfuckstogiveaboutany-thing. Theres a lot of middle ground therebetweensomebodylikeBob Dylan and Paul McCartney, who to-tally gives it up every night for the peo-ple and the songs. But if I had to choose one to be more inspired by, its denite-lyonthemorecurmudgeonly-asshole side of the spectrum. Along those lines, youve been portrayed as intense and sometimes controlling, particularly in the 2002 documentaryI Am Trying to Break Your Heart.I havent watched it since it came out, but Ive stumbled upon a YouTube clip of me arguing with Jay Bennett. I dont see my-self as an asshole, but surely some people do. Im more comfortable in my skin at this point in my life.Do you have any hobbies? Latelymyhobbyisarguingwithmy 15-year-old son about anarchism. Im a lit-tle bit less inclined than him to foresee a via-ble future with widespread implementation [ofanarchy].Thosearethekindsofawful and nerdy arguments we have around the dinnertable,and,yes,youreluckyyou arent eating dinner with us.On anarchy at the dinner table, touring with Dylan, and why the hell he named Wilcos album Star Wars By Patrick DoyleJef Tweedy 2015 Anheuser-Busch, Bud Light Lime Lemon-Ade-Rita Flavored Malt Beverage, St. Louis, MO34| Rolli ngStone| RollingStone.com August27, 2015FROM TOP: JUSTIN LUBIN/AMC; JAMES WHITE/E! ENTERTAINMENTTELEVISIONA t ypicalscenei n Fear the Walking Dead: two cops around a Los Angeleshospitalbed.Some junkie kid got hit by a car while he was running down the street screamingabouttheundead horrorshedjustwitnessed adrugdenwhereahalf- nakedzombiegirlisfeasting on human esh. One cop says, Youwereravingaboutesh andbloodandviscera.The dudemumbles,Idontknow what viscera is. Uh-oh peo-ple eating people? This could be a bad sign. Is this just the drug- addled ravings of a zonked-out junkie? Or is our nation on the vergeofafull-blownzombie apocalypse? You veprobablyalready guessedtheanswer,with some help from the title. Fear theWalkingDeadisoneof theyearsmosthotlyawaited TVdebuts,thecompanionto AMCsmind-boggling,mas-sive Walking Dead juggernaut. Ifyoudontknowwhatvis-cera is, you will most certain-ly nd out. The Walking Dead, based on the Robert Kirkman comicbooks,isablockbust-er of esh-chomp zombie porn that just keeps getting bigger. Meanwhile, this Kirkman-su-pervisedprequelcleverlyex-pandsthefranchise,taking us back to the early days when law-abidingcitizenscanonly watch in terror as their friends andneighborssuddenlyturn into monsters. As one charac-ter puts it, When civilization ends, it ends fast. FeartheWalkingDead startsoffwithanordinary dysfunctionalL. A.family. The dad, Clif Curtis, is a high schoolEnglishteacher,lead-ing a class on Jack London and theeternalbattleofciviliza-tion versus nature. (His spoil-er: Nature always wins!) His girlfriend,KimDickens,is theguidancecounselor,with herownbroodofalienated teens: Her son Nick is a hero-inaddict,lookingveryJames FrancoinhisrattyEighties Baracuta jacket, and her over-achievingdaughter,Alicia,is on her way to Berkeley. Unless, that is, something goes horri-bly wrong. Like maybe a mys-terious u epidemic that turns outtobesomethingmuch, much worse. The zombies here arent ex-actlybigonpersonality,but part of the appeal of the whole sagaisthattheresnopres-suretogetemotionallyin-volvedwithanyoneonscreen theresjustthechompers and the chomped. (Or the not-quite-yetchomped.)Thehu-mans arent underdog heroes, especiallysincemostofthem haveslightlylesssurvivalin-stinct than your average squir-rel.Soyoudontrootforany ofthem;youjusttrytoguess which one gets picked of next. And after watching these drea-ry folks bicker on and on about their feelings, youre more than ready for some zombies to show up and bring the ruckus.Butthebestthingabout FeartheWalkingDeadand thereasonitaddssomething genuinelynewtothereci-peisthewayitmakesL.A. themaincharacter,playing around with locales we recog-nize. At one point, two lowlifes meetatwhatseemstobethe exactsamedinerwhereJohn TravoltaandSamuelL.Jack-son argue about bacon in Pulp Fiction. Except instead of de-batingwhetheritsdisgust-ing to eat pork, theyre talking aboutzombiesstuffingtheir faces with human brains.Theresanelementofburn-Hollywood-burnsadismbe-hind all the urban-breakdown violence. Fear has the vibe that L.A.suffersbecauseitgets stuck with the blame for every-thing thats wrong with our sick society. That has driven melo-dramasfromEarthquaketo DemolitionMan,fromHelter SkeltertotheinfamousQuin-cypunk-rockepisode.L.A.is thecitythatsprettywhenit criesthatswhyitssogood atstarringindisasterstories. AsGeorgeA.Romerohimself gured out by the time of Day oftheDead,theresonlyone thingscarierthanzombiesin the woods: zombies at the shop-pingmall.Thisistherealde-clineofWesterncivilization, made all the nastier by the fact that the undead will be munch-ing on whatevers left. L.A.: Its whats for dinner.The Walking Dead zombie apocalypse shambles out WestBy Rob ShefeldTo Live & Dine on Flesh in L.A. Fear the Walking Dead Sundays, 9 p.m., AMCNO KISSING! Teen romance on Fear the Walking Dead.SHORT TAKEI Am Cait is reality TVs bombshell of the year if only because its one of those rare uke moments when reality TV slips over the line and starts to overlap with some-thing that feels like real life. Not that Caitlyn Jenner is an ordinary person in any way, but her story has actual emotional content which is the last thing any fan expects from Brand Kardashian. Its touching to see her stumble into her new life as Americas most famous trans woman, espe-cially since she never really got a handle on the celebrity hustle in the rst place. Watching Cait try to gure out the things we all try to gure out how to walk, how to talk, how to tell the truth to her mom or how to go outdoors in a swimsuit is a hitherto unknown television experience. R.S.Ms. Jenners New RealityI Am CaitSundays, 8 p.m., E!Jenner36| Rolli ngStone| RollingStone.com August27, 2015Some people think Sgt. Peppers is a genius album, but I think its a mishmash of rubbish. Keith RichardsRIRI RELOADED Rihanna took no prisoners in a paint battle during the annual Foreday Morning Jump Up street party in her native Barbados.SUPERB ASS Days after getting in a Twitter spat with Taylor Swift, Nicki Minaj brought her Pinkprint tour to Brooklyns Barclays Center. Stop hating on people, she said onstage. And start living your life.U2 and Bruces New York SerenadeDuring their eight-show stand at Madison Square Garden, U2 brought out everyone from Jimmy Fallon to Lady Gaga to the Roots. But they saved the best surprise guest for their nal show, when Bruce Springsteen joined the band for I Still Havent Found What Im Looking For. He gave us a reason to be a band, Bono said. Gave us a level we could never reach but always aspire to. Also on hand (but not onstage) were Bill and Hillary Clinton. Trying to gure out for the life of me why the Clintons are sitting in the nose nose nose bleed section, tweeted Questlove, who was watching from the oor.Ive found my running mate! Hillary cried as she spotted the Edge.Beyonc did her best Cousin It impression as she and an amused Jay Z checked out one of U2s NYC shows.CLOCKWISE FROM TOP LEFT: SAMY MOSHER; KEVIN MAZUR/WIREIMAGE; INFPHOTO.COM; CHARLIE PITT/246PAPS/SPLASH NEWS; JERRITT SIMMERS/SPLASH NEWSAugust27, 2015 37THE TRAGIC KINGDOM Billy Corgan had his day at Disneyland ruined when a grim-looking photo of him went viral. Im at fucking Disneyland, the Smashing Pumpkins frontman said. Im not here to do a meet-and-greet.James Taylors Newport Folk Festival set was marred by neither re nor rain.SHIRT ALLERGY Anthony Kiedis took time of from cutting the new Red Hot Chili Peppers album to take a walk with his son and dog in Malibu. ALL CLEANED UP Fresh from a stint at a Thai rehab facility, Pete Doherty resumed his duties as frontman and rubbish lad for U.K. garage rockers the Libertines. Charli XCX played an intense set at Lollapalooza, culminating with a bombastic Boom Clap.LET IT BLEED Courtney Barnett played through a nger injury at Newport. I was trying my best not to bleed everywhere, she says. McCartney Shakes LollaFor the encore of his headlining performance at Lollapalooza in Chicago, Paul McCartney brought out Alabama Shakes Brittany Howard for a rousing version of Get Back. Once in a lifetime! says Howard. I hope they had as much fun as I did.BLAME CANADA Thousands of Anne Murray fans signed a petition protesting Kanye Wests performance at the closing ceremony of the Pan Am Games in Toronto, but that didnt stop him from delivering a hit-packed set.CLOCKWISE FROM TOP LEFT: RMV/REX SHUTTERSTOCK; FERN/SPLASH NEWS; GRIFFIN LOTZ, 2; MJ KIM; ANDY KEILEN; XPOSURE/AKM-GSI; FK-ROL/X17ONLINE.COMAugust27, 2015 38| Rolli ngStone| RollingStone.comThe thing is, when you actually think about it, its not funny. Given whats at stake, its more like the op-posite, like the rst sign of thecollapseoftheUnited Statesasaglobalsuper-power.Twentyyearsfrom now,whenwereallliving like prehistory hominids and hunting rats with sticks, well probably look back at this moment as the beginning of the end. Inthemeantime,though,theracefor theRepublicanPartypresidentialnomi-nation sure seems funny. The event known aroundtheworldashashtagGOPClown-Carisimprobable,colossal,spectacular and shocking; epic, monumental, heinous and disgusting. Its like watching 17 platy-puses try to mount the queen of England. You cant tear your eyes away from it.Itwillgodownsomedayasthegreat-estrealityshoweverconceived.Thecon-cept is ingenious. Take a combustible mix ofthemostdepravedandlterlesshalf-wits,scamartistsandasylumNapoleons America has to ofer, give them all piles of money and tell them to run for president. Add Donald Trump. And to give the whole thing a perverse gravitas, make the presi-dency really at stake.ItsWesterncivilizationsveryowncar wreck. Even if you dont want to watch it, you will. Its that awesome of a spectacle. But what does it mean? Or to put it an-otherway,sinceweknowitcantmean anything good: Is this enough of a disas-ter that we shouldnt laugh? I went to Iowa to see for myself. rockwell city, iowa, evening, july 30th. Ive just rushed up from Des Moines tocatchmyrsteventontheClownCar tour,astumpspeechbyTVpersonality MikeHuckabee,whomtheInternetsays was also once governor of Arkansas. Traditionally,intheseearlystagesofa presidential campaign, very little happens. Candidates treat their stump work like co-medians practicing new material between thelunchanddinnerhours.Intheold days,theytiptoedtheirpositionsoutbe-foresmallaudiencesinlittlefarmtowns like this in an efort to see what minor pol-icy tweaks might play better later on in the race, when the bullets start ying for real. Thatswhatonenormallyexpects.But 2016isverydiferent,asIfoundoutin Rockwell City right away. Two factors have combined to make this maybe the most unlikely political story of ourtimes.Therstisthecampaignsex-traordinarynumberofentrants.AsThe Washington Post noted last fall, this is the rsttimeinrecentmemorythatthereis noheir-apparentcandidate(likeaBob Dole).Forsomereason,duringthelast yearsoftheObamapresidency,thena-tional Republican Party chose not to throw its weight behind anyone, leading a mon-strous eld of has-beens and never-weres to believe that they had a real shot at win-ning the nomination.Sothroughoutthisspringandsum-mer,anewHumanPunchlineseeming-ly jumped into the race every week. There weresomanyofthesejokers,coming sofast,thatnewscommentatorsquick-lylatchedontotheimageofaparadeof clowns emerging from a political Volkswa-gen, giving birth to the clown car theme.But the more important factor has been the astounding presence of Donald Trump as the front-runner. The orangutan-haired realestatemagnateenteredtheracein mid-June and immediately blew up cable INSIDE THE GOP CLOWN CAROn the campaign trail in Iowa, Donald Trumps antics have forced the other candidates to get crazy or go homeBy Matt TaibbiandTwitterbydenouncingMexicansas rapistsandripping2008nomineeJohn McCain for having been captured in war. Both moves would have been fatal to se-rious candidates in previous elections. But amidthestrangeRepublicanleadership voidof2016,thefuroronlygaveTrump furthersaturationamongthebrainless nativistsinhispartyandinexplicably vaultedhimtofront-runnerstatus.The combinationofTrumpconstantlyspew-ing crazy quotes and the strategy actually working turned his campaign into a verita-ble media supernova, earning the Donald more coverage than all of the other candi-dates combined. This led to a situation where the candi-dates have had to resort to increasingly bi-zarretacticsinordertowinpressatten-tion. Add to this the curious dynamic of the rst Republican debate, on August 6th, in which only the top 10 poll performers get on the main stage, and the incentive to say outlandish things in search of a poll bump quickly reached a fever pitch. So much for thecautiousfeeling-outperiod:Forthe candidates, it was toss grenades or die. BackintheRockwellCitylibrary,the small contingent of reporters covering the days third Huckabee Huddle was buzz-ing. A local TV guy was staring at his notes withaconfusedlookonhisface,likehe couldntbelievewhatheread.Weirdest thing, he said. I was just in Jeferson, and Huckabee said something about invoking the 14th and 5th amendments to end abor-tion. Im really not sure what he meant.Amomentlater,Huckabeesauntered into the library for an ad-hoc presser, and wasquicklyaskedwhathemeant.Just what I said, he quipped. It is the job of the federal government to protect the citizens under the Constitution.RollingStone.com| Rolli ngStone| 39He went on to explain that even the un-born were entitled to rights of due process andequalprotection.Theattendantre-porters all glanced sideways at one anoth-er. The idea of using the 14th Amendment, designed to protect the rights of ex-slaves, as a tool to outlaw abortion in the 21st cen-tury clearly would have its own dark appeal to the Fox crowd. But it occurred to me that Huckabee might have had more in mind. Are we talking about sending the FBI or the National Guard to close abortion clin-ics? I asked. WellseewhenIgettobepresident, he answered.Huckabee smiled. Perhaps alone among allthenon-Trumpcandidates,Hucka-bee knows what kind of ght hes in. This GOP race is not about policy or electabili-ty or even raising money. Instead, its about Nielsen ratings or trending. Its a minute-to-minute contest for media heat and In-ternet hits, where positive and negative at-tention are almost equally valuable. Huckabeelaunchedhiscampaignon May5th,runningonacarefullycrafted and somewhat unconventional Republican platform centered around economic popu-lism, vowing to end stagnant wages and help people reach a higher ground. Butemphasizingeconomicpopulism isthekindofwonkypolicynuancethat doesnt do much to earn notice in the Twit-terage.Afteranearlybumppushedhim briey up to fourth place, Huckabee began asteadyslideinthepollsastheunre-strainedlunacyofTrumpbeganseizing control of the race. By late July, Huckabees numbers had fallen, and he had to be wor-rying that he would land out of the top 10. Butthen,onJuly25th,Huckabeegave an interview to Breitbart News in which he shamelessly invoked Godwins Law, saying that Barack Obamas deal with Iran would take the Israelis and basically march them to the door of the oven. The quote hit the airwaves like a thun-derclap.VirtuallyeveryoneintheEng-Illustration byVictor Juhaszlish-speaking world with an IQ over nine shrieked in disgust. The Hucksters ovens rant brought MSNBC host Mika Brzezin-skitonear-tearsonair.Huckabeeeven prompted an Israeli transportation minis-tertoexclaim,DirtyDancing-style,No-body marches the Jews to ovens anymore.EveninHuckabeesownparty,hewas denounced. Jeb Bush, anxious to cast him-self as the non-crazy, Uncola Republican in aeldofmentalincompetents,calledon everyone to tone down the rhetoric. Wis-consinGov.ScottWalker,knownasone of Americas most dickishly unscrupulous hatemerchants,said,Yourenothearing me use that sort of language. But far from being deterred by all of the negativeattention,Huckabeeshrewdly embraced it. Much like the Donald, Huck-abee swallowed up the negative press en-ergylikeaPac-Manandsteamedahead, and was soon climbing in the polls again. Huckabee had stumbled into the truth that has been driving the support for the August27, 2015 40| Rolli ngStone| RollingStone.comFROM LEFT: M. SHCHERBYNA/SHUTTERSTOCK; BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA, DIGITALLY ALTERED BY ROLLING STONE; ELDAD CARIN/SHUTTERSTOCK; RALPH FRESO/GETTY IMAGES; NASA; CLEM MURRAY/PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER/LANDOV; MELINDA SUE GORDON/ PARAMOUNT PICTURES/EVERETT COLLECTIONHuckabees speech tossed plenty of red meatintothegrinder,explainingthat Americawasdivinelycreatedbyprovi-dence of almighty God, which is the only explanationfortheextremelongevityof theConstitution.Hesteppeddownto heartyapplause,givingwaytoaperfor-mance by a group of Rockwell City Repub-lican women, who sang what they called a rap song. There was no beat and each of the 10-odd singers was of from the next by a word or two:People want the freedomTo make medical and personal choices!And we want representativesTo listen to our voices!Listening, I suddenly worried that the InternationalFederationofBlackPeo-plewoulddetectthisrapperformance from afar and call in an air strike. Sneak-ing out the front door, I checked my phone toseehowHucksabortion-clinicplay wasdoing:Hedalreadysetofamedia shitstorm. Within24hours,hewasbeingde-nouncedacrosstheblogosphere,buthe was soon riding up in the polls again, one of the few shoo-ins to get on the main stage of the August 6th debate.Itwasastoundi ng, watchi ng theotherentrantstrytoduplicate Huckabeesfeat.FormerTexasGov. RickPerrywaslastseenonthena-tionalstagechokingonhisownface in an infamous 2011 debate performance, when he was unable to name the three fed-eralagencieshehimselfhadpromisedto do away with. He returned to the race this year basically the same gafe-spewing yutz he was four years ago, only dressed in pre-posterous smart glasses, a deadly error in a ght with a natural schoolyard bully like Donald Trump. He put glasses on so people will think hessmart,Trumpcroaked.Anditjust doesnt work! Perrywassogratefultoevenbemen-tionedbyTrumpthatherefocusedhis campaign apparatus on an epic response, apparently in an attempt to draw the Don-ald into a Drake/Meek Mill-style diss war. Hetossedoffa3,000-wordspeechde-nouncingTrumpismasthemodernin-carnation of the Know-Nothing movement (onecouldalmosthearTrumpscoffing, What the fuck is a Know-Nothing?). He decried Trump himself as a barking car-nivalactandacancerthattheparty should excise for its own sake and, one supposes, for Rick Perrys. Trump,toobusybeingfront-runnerto noticePerrysdesperatevolleys,basical-lyblewtheTexanof.Aweeklater,Perry wasinatiefor10thplaceinthepolls. Askedifhiscampaignwasnishedifhe didnt make the debate cut, Perry replied, incharacteristicallymalapropfashion, thatmakingthedebatewasnotaone-shot pony. He ended up missing his shot, or his pony, or whatever, and was squeezed out of the debate. Many of the entrants tried nutty media stuntstore-injectenergyintotherace. KentuckySen.RandPaulattemptedto revive his agging libertarian-niche cam-paignbyputtingoutavideo.Init,the candidateappearsdressedinshopgog-Trumpcampaign:Thatinthisintense-lymedia-drivenrace,inspiringgenuine horror and disgust among the right peo-ple is worth a lot of votes in certain quar-ters, irrespective of how you go about it. If youremakinganMSNBCanchorcry orrenderingacoastalmediavillainlike AndersonCoopernearlyspeechless(as Trumphasdone),youmustbedoing something right.In Rockwell City, it seemed like Huck-abee was consciously trying to repeat his ovens stunt. He smiled as the media in attendanceledoutofthepresser,sure-ly knowing we would have the well see quote up on social media within minutes. Attheevent,hewasglowinglyintro-ducedbyIowaRepublicanCongressman Steve King, who revved the crowd by bash-ing the Supreme Court ruling clearing the way for gay marriage. King had apparent-ly been told on good authority by a lawyer friend that Obergefell v. Hodges meant that onlyonepartyinamarriagehadtobea human being. What that means, he said, is you can now marry my lawn mower. Areporternexttomeleanedover. Kings lawn mower is gay?Ishrugged.InthemodernRepublican Party,makingsenseisasecondarycon-sideration. Years of relentless propaganda combinedwithextremefrustrationover the disastrous Bush years and two terms of a Kenyan Muslim terrorist president have cast the partys right wing into a swirling suckholeofparanoiaandconspiratorial craziness.Thereisnothingyoucandoto go too far, a fact proved, if not exactly un-derstood, by the madman, Trump.Boy Scouts nally, of cially accept gay scout leaders.Eight-year-old gets double hand transplant. Confederate Pride FB now LGBT Southerners for Michelle Obama and Judaism. First female coach hired in NFL.Potentially habitable cousin planet is found 1,400 light-years away.Elon Musk, Stephen Hawking call for global ban on killer robots. Baby steps: New DEA chief admits pot probably not as dangerous as heroin.WITH USObama unveils toughest greenhouse-gas regulations.THIS GOP RACE IS A MINUTE-TO-MINUTE CONTEST FOR MEDIA HEAT AND INTERNET HITS, WHERE POSITIVE AND NEGATIVE ATTENTION ARE ALMOST EQUALLY VALUABLE.August27, 2015 RollingStone.com| Rolli ngStone| 41TOP: SCOTT OLSON/GETTY IMAGES. BOTTOM, FROM LEFT: RON GALELLA, LTD./WIREIMAGE; FLAREIMAGES/SHUTTERSTOCK, ANSIS KLUCIS/SHUTTERSTOCK, DIGITALLY ALTERED BY ROLLING STONE; LUCASFILM; W. LLOYD MACKENZIE, DIGITALLY ALTERED BY ROLLING STONE; CAMERON SPENCER/GETTY IMAGES; CRACK PALINGGI/REUTERS/LANDOV; ELIMINATOR; DINGA/SHUTTERSTOCK, DIGITALLY ALTERED BY ROLLING STONEglesandjeans,curlyhairying,chain-sawing the tax code in half. He looks like Ryan Phillippe doing a Billy Mays ad. ThentherewasSouthCarolinaSen. LindseyGraham,oneofthefewcandi-dateswithasenseofhumorabouthow much of a long shot he is. I do bar mitz-vahs,birthdayparties,weddings,fu-neralscallme,Illcome,hecracked. Onceintherace,though,Grahamim-mediately trolled Trump by calling him a jackass, then briey enjoyed some press limelightwhenthefuriousfront-runner gaveoutGrahamstelephonenumberto the public. Graham responded to the blessing of a Trump insult by putting out a video cele-bratinghisTrump-victimhood.Init,the candidatechopsuphiscellphoneGinsu-style, mixes it in a blender in a foul-looking yellowliquid,andwhacksitwithanine-iron, or maybe a wedge (note: the Graham camp says it was a nine).All of this actually happened. Can we be that far from candidates putting out duel-ing cat videos? In late july, in a cramped con-ferenceroomofaMarriottinWest Des Moines, Graham showed up to in-troducehimselftovoters.Inperson, hes an odd character, like an oversize ventriloquistsdummy,withtoo-bright eyes and cheeks frozen in a half-grin. He calls his event a No Nukes for Iran rally. Clearly gunning for a Cabinet post in DefenseorHomelandSecurity,Graham isrunningalmostaone-issuerace,cam-paigning on being the candidate who most thinks Barack Obamas Iran deal sucks. Of course, all 17 of the Republican can-didatesthinkObamasIrandealsucks, butGrahamwantsyoutoknowhereally thinksitsucks.Partofhisstumpspeech isrippedstraightfromTeamAmerica: He thinks the Iran deal will result in 9/11 timesahundred.ActuallyinGrahams version, its 9/11 times a thousand. Theonlyreason3,000ofusdiedon 9/11andnot3million,hesaid,isthey could not get the weapons. Graham would seem to be perfectly suit-ed for this Twitter-driven race, because he has a reputation in Washington for being a master of the one-liner and a goofball with boundariesissueswhonotinfrequent-ly crosses lines in his humor. Did you see NancyPelosiontheoor?hereported-ly once quipped. Complete disgust. If you can get through the surgeries, its disgust. Butinperson,Grahamisadud.His nasalvoiceanddrypresentationmake Alan Greenspan seem like Marilyn Man-son.Still,itdoesnttaketoolongforhim to drift into rhetoric that in a normal po-litical season would distinguish him as an unhinged lunatic, which is interesting be-cause pundits usually call Graham one of the sane candidates.First,hermlypromisedtore-litigate theIraqWar.Imgonnasendsomesol-diersbacktoIraq,hesaid.IfImpresi-dent, were going back to Iraq. Promisingconcretelytorestartahis-torically unpopular war is a solid Trump-era provocation, but Graham then took it a step further. He pledged to solve the Syria problem by channeling Lawrence of Arabia and leading an Arab army in an epic cam-paign to unseat the caliphate.Graham,apoliticianwhoreportedly once said that everything that starts with al- in the Middle East is bad news, insist-ed he was just the man to unite the Saudis, Egyptians,Jordanians,Turksandother peoples in battle, and also get them to pay for the invasion (getting dirty foreigners to payforourpoliciesisanotherTrumpin-novation). Were going into Syria with the Arabs in the lead, Graham said. They will do most of the ghting, and theyre gonna pay for it because we paid for the last two.I looked around the room. No reaction whatsoever. An old man in the rear of the hall was picking a cuticle of his middle n-ger,butotherwise,nobodymoved.There werereporters,butGrahamshawkish bleatingsdontratemuchinanAmerica obsessed with Caitlyn and Rachel Dolezal and the Donald. Japanese engineers re 2 quadrillion-watt death star laser.Cleveland cop pepper-sprays protesting activists.World population to hit 11 billion by end of century. AGAINSTUSDonald Trumps lawyer: You cannot rape your spouse. IOC awards the 2022 Winter Olympics to snowless Beijing. One in three young adults living with Mom and DadUnhealthy air pollution found at 36 national parks. In case of prisoner denied an abortion, Alabama court appoints lawyer for fetus.REALITY TV At the debate, Trump got more air time than anybody else, and then dismissed his rivals as contestants.August27, 2015 42| Rolli ngStone| RollingStone.comInstead,laterthatsameday,news leakedoutthataTrumppoliticaladvis-er, Sam Nunberg, had once referred to Al Sharptons daughter as a n----- on Face-book. This is news. It virtually obliterated all other campaign information. Within a day, polls showed Trump surg-ing like never before. One Reuters poll re-leased on August 1st showed him scoring nearly30percentofthevote.Thesec-ond-highest contender, Jeb Bush, was now nearly 20 points of the lead. When Trump completedthenewscyclebygivingNun-berganApprentice-stylefiring,histri-umph was total.Iftheclownswhoengaged Trumpmostlycameoutlooking awful, the ones who didnt engage him came out looking even worse, includ-ing several of the ostensible favorites. JebBushwassupposedlythesmart-er Bush brother and also the presumptive front-runner in this race. But on July 4th, justafewweeksafterenteringtherace, Trumpbasicallyendedthefightinone fellswoopwithasinglekickintheballs, retweeting that Bush has to like Mexican illegals because of his wife. With a wifes honor at stake, most self-respectingmaleswouldhaveimmediate-lystalkedTrumpandbeltedhiminthe comb-over. But Bush stayed true to his ef-feteRichieRichrepandturtled.Hesaid nothingandinsteadmeeklyhadanaide putoutastatementthatTrumpswords wereinappropriateandnotreectiveof the Republican Partys views. It was such a bad showing that the Belt-wayopinionatorsatPoliticoranastory asking, Is Jeb Bush turning into Michael Dukakis?Game,set,match!Bushhas been plunging in the polls ever since. AsimilarfatebefellMarcoRubio,the boy-wonderRepublican.Rubiocruised through the early portion of the race, when voterswereimpressedbyhissideswept, anal-retentive,Cuban-Alex-Keatonper-sona,risingashighas14percentinthe polls.ButthenTrumpenteredtherace andblastedtheclearlyless-than-com-pletely-AmericanRubioforfavoringa pro-immigration bill. Weak on immigra-tionandweakonjobs,Trumpscofed. Not the guy. HebatteredRubiowithtweetafter tweet,one-linerafterone-liner.Trump aides hit Rubio for having zero credibili-ty and being a typical politician who fa-voredadangerousamnestybill.Rubio meanwhile defended Mexicans in general after Trumps rapists line, but has passed on engaging Trumps personal attacks. As a result, Rubios support for a path to cit-izenship for the undocumented has stood out like a herpes sore, and hes plummeted to ve percent in the polls.Theonlycandidatetoreallyescape TrumpswrathhasbeenTexasSen.Ted Cruz, and thats because Cruz has spent the entirepoliticalseasonnuzzlingTrumps ankles,praisingtheDonaldlikealove-sickcellmate.TheTexassenator,whose rhetorical schtick is big doses of Tea Party crazy (his best line was that Obama want-ed to bring expanded Medicaid to ISIS) mixedwithconstantassurancesthathes themostReagan-yofallthecandidates, even reportedly had an hourlong confab with Trump. Terric, he said of the meet-ing, calling Trump one of a kind. ThesubterraneanCruz-Trumpcom-muniqusareafantasticsubplottothis absurdistcampaign,hashtagClownCars very own Nazi-Soviet nonaggression pact. It could mean the two plan to run togeth-er,oritcouldmeanCruzwillpleadfor Trumps votes if and when the party nds a way to beg, threaten or blackmail Don-ald out of the race. Whatever it means, its a microcosm of the campaign: simultane-ously disgusting and entertaining.Its not surprising that Trumps most se-riouscompetitionwilllikelycomefrom WisconsinsWalker,whoisprobablythe onlypersonintheracenaturallymeaner than Trump. A central-casting Charmless White Guy who looks like a vice principal or an over-dressedtrafccop,Walkertracedaper-formance arc in the past year that was ac-tuallyasignalofwhatwastocomewith Trump.BackinFebruary,whenaddress-ing the Conservative Political Action Con-ference,Walkeransweredaquestionof how he would deal with Islamic terrorists bysaying,IfIcantakeon100,000pro-testers, I can do the same across the world.LikeTrumpsMexicanremarks,Walk-ersgambitcomparingAmericanunion workers to head-chopping Islamic terror-istsseemedlikeabridgetoofarevenfor manyRepublicans.Hewascriticizedby the National Review and future opponent Perry, among others. But instead of plum-metinginthepolls,Walker,likeTrump, gained ground. Theironyisthatthiswassupposedto be the year when the Republicans opened thetentup,madeasincereplayforthe Hispanicvote,andperhapssoftenedup abitongaysandothervermin.Butthen thelightswentonintheraceandvoters ocked to a guy whose main policy plank wastheconstructionofagiantGameof Thrones-style wall to keep rape-happy eth-nics of our lawns. So much for inclusion! Waterloo, iowa, august 1st. NewJerseyGov.ChrisChris-tieshowedupatLincolnPark downtown to attend the Cedar Valley Irish fest, a multiday fair with street cuisine, tents full of hand-made crafts, live music and a 5K road race. In a state where a more typical event is a stale VFW hall bufet or a visit to the worlds larg-est truck stop (the I-80 meet-and-greet is a staple of Iowa campaigning), the Irish fest is a happening scene, featuring good food andsizablenumbersofpeopleunderthe age of 60. Twoyearsago,Christiesarrivalatan event like this would have been a major po-litical event. Back then, Christie was a na-tional phenomenon, a favorite to be dubbed presumptive front-runner for 2016.Christies the type of candidate political audiences have come to expect: Once every four years, commentators in New York and Washingtonwillfallinlovewithsome crossoverpoliticianwhosmeanenough to be accepted by the right wing, but also knows a gay person or once read a French novel or something. In the pre-Trump era, we became conditioned to believe that this is what constituted an exciting politician. Christiewastobethatnextcrossover hit, the 2016 version of McCain. Washing-tons high priest of Conventional Wisdom, Mark Halperin, even called him magical, and Time called him a guy who loves his mother and gets it done.Buttwoyearslater,Christiehasbeen undonebyBridgegate,andthebuzzis gone. When he showed up at Cedar Falls, therewerejustafewreporterstomeet him. One of the Iowa press contingent ex-plained to me that with the gigantic eld, someofthelessercandidatesarefalling throughthecracks.Wejustdonthave enoughbodiestocovertherace,there-porter said. Its never been like this. Christie and his wife, Mary Pat, made theirwaypatientlythroughthecrowd, shakinghandsandtalkingfootballand other topics with a handful of attendees. Itwasold-schoolpolitics,thewayelec-tions used to be won in this country, but itwashardnottowatchthispainstak-TRUMP HAS PERVERSELY RESTORED DEMOCRACY TO THE PROCESS, TURNING THE RACE INTO A PURE HIGH SCHOOL POPULARITY CONTEST CONDUCTED IN THE MEDIA.August27, 2015 RollingStone.com| Rolli ngStone| 43CLOCKWISE FROM TOP: NATI HARNIK/AP IMAGES; JERRY MENNENGA/ZUMAPRESS.COM; SCOTT OLSON/GETTY IMAGESing one-person-at-a-time messaging and wonderhowitcompetesinthesocial- media age. After the event, I asked Christie wheth-erthehugeeldmakesitdifculttoget media attention. Well, Ive never had any troublegettingattention,hesaid.Ijust thinkitsdiferentiatingyourself.Ithink it plays to our strengths, because weve al-ways worked really hard.Right, hard work: that old saw. Later in the day, back across the state in Rockwell City, former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick San-torum played the same tune at the towns CornDazefestival.Dressedinjeans,a blue oxford and a face so pious that Christ would be pro