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Inside the grass-roots field operation of Barack Obama, who is transforming the way political campaigns are run Click here for Rolling Stone's endorsement of Barack Obama. • Barack Obama: A History in Photos It's Presidents day, two weeks before the Texas primary, and Adam Ukman has come to the small city of San Marcos to train precinct captains for Barack Obama. A soft-spoken native of Houston, Ukman has served on the campaign's front lines in Iowa and Utah, organizing grass-roots supporters to secure decisive victories in both states. This evening, more than eighty residents of San...

Cover Story: Jack Johnson The Dude Abides

With a Number One record and millions of fans, Jack Johnson is one of rock's biggest stars. So how can he be so mellow? Click here for a photo gallery of rock's mellow superstar onstage and off. "I get completely haunted," he says. In his most vivid dream, Johnson is standing on the beach with a guitar, gazing into the shore break. "Our stage crew was there, the band were all set up, it was a normal show, but the ocean was where the crowd should be," Johnson recalls. "I was thinking, 'What's going on here?' " Johnson and his band played on as the tide crept up. "We were knee-deep, then waist-deep, and still...

Jack Johnson, Filmmaker

Rolling Stone's cover star discusses filming surf scenes, complete with footage from his film "Thicker Than Water" Jack Johnson isn't just a chart-topping songwriter and former professional surfer - he's also a filmmaker. In fact, he co-directed the acclaimed 2000 surf movie Thicker Than Water, a zen-like meditation on life in the waves. Click the video to hear Johnson's thoughts on filmmaking and to see some choice footage from Thicker Than Water and click here to read the cover story.

EMI Changes the Game

New CEO pledges to reinvent record biz with massive cost-cutting In early 2007, EMI was a mess. The U.K.-based music company — the smallest of the four major labels — had lost $500 million in a year, its market share had slipped to nine percent, and marquee artists Radiohead and Paul McCartney had jumped ship. When private equity firm Terra Firma bought the label for $4.7 billion in May, many speculated that CEO Guy Hands would dismantle the company, retaining the profitable publishing arm and back catalog. Instead, on January 15th, he announced a...

The Kinks: The Essential Album By Album Guide

Three decades of Ray Davies' songwriting, from 1964's "The Kinks" to the band's ultimate greatest-hits records THE KINKS (1964) Key Tracks: "You Really Got Me," "Stop Your Sobbin' " Quick Take: Depending on your perspective, the Kinks' debut album is either a spirited but generic blast of Londonbeat mayhem with one phenomenal song in the middle, or one song that's so phenomenal that it dwarfs anything that surrounded it. That song is the proto-punk, proto-metal, proto-everything "You Really Got Me." The two-chord riff moves mountains. Dave Davies, all of seventeen, uncorks arguably the greatest...

Top 10: The Best in TV, the Web, Books and Beyond

Rolling Stone's new guide to the best in pop culture: "Captain America," "Quarterlife," "Project Rungay" and more 10. COMEDY Human Giant Tour Get ready to witness history: To gear up for the second season of their MTV sketch-comedy show, which debuts March 11th, New York troupe Human Giant are hitting the road, marking their first headlining tour — and the first time their bravest member, Rob Huebel, will attempt to trim his junk with pruning shears. Sophisticated humor? No way! For their stage show, Huebel, Aziz Ansari and Paul Scheer will play demented magicians called "The Illusionators,"...