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The end of the decade is nearly upon us and on December 9th, Rolling Stone’s panel of critics, artists and industry figures will name the best songs and albums of the past 10 years. But we want to know what you think too. Starting today, we’re asking the Rolling Stone readers to tell us what they think is the Song of the Decade and the Album of the Decade. Plus, be sure to place your vote on the Readers’ Poll ballot to help decide the pick for Artist of the Decade.

Who will it be? Timberlake or Radiohead? Jay-Z or Beyonce? Springsteen or U2? You can only vote for one song, one album and one artist of the decade, so think long and hard before casting your vote. The balloting stars today and runs until Monday, November 30th, giving you 20 days to make these difficult decisions. Click here for the Readers’ Poll ballot and remember to check back on December 9th when we reveal both Rolling Stone’s and the Readers’ Poll picks.

Bon Jovi’s return to rock is the focus of this week’s New Reviews as Jon, Richie and the rest of the New Jersey band release their 11th album, The Circle, today. After exploring Nashville with their country-influenced 2007 album Lost Highway, Bon Jovi break out the big choruses and arena anthems their fans have come to love. “It does rock — if your idea of rock is Aerosmith doing Diane Warren songs,” Christian Hoard writes in his three-star Rolling Stone review. “Predictable and immaculately produced, these arena-shakers offer a familiar brand of Jersey cheese, but where Jon Bon Jovi once was kind of quixotic (”Livin’ on a Prayer”), he’s more contemplative than ever, turning out meditations like “Live Before You Die.”

Also out this week is the long-awaited debut album by D.C. rapper Wale, who previously made waves with a mixtape dedicated to Seinfeld and an opening slot on Jay-Z’s Blueprint 3 tour. Attention Deficit features guests like Lady Gaga and Pharrell while boasting production by heavyweights like Mark Ronson, Cool & Dre and Dave Sitek. Nothing on Wale’s debut is as strange as him rapping about Jerry and Elaine: “Wale instead fashions himself Kanye East, a mix of aspiration and anger, given to jazzy moralizing á la the Roots yet not above tapping Lady Gaga for the single ‘Chillin,’” Jon Dolan says in his three-star review.

Earning a four-star review from Rolling Stone is Dashboard Confessional’s album Alter the Ending. Jody Rosen writes that the emo godfather’s sixth album “is a return to full-bore rock after the mellow Shade of Poison Trees (2007), and songs like the raucous ‘New Morning’ ooze craft.” One more release of note this week is Snow Patrol’s Up To Now, a collection of the Irish rockers’ biggest, Coldplay-esque hits.

And for all of Rolling Stone’s album reviews, visit our Reviews page.

The fourth annual Fun Fun Fun festival, held Nov. 7 and 8 at Austin’s Waterloo Park, hosted acts including Danzig, the Jesus Lizard, Death, Of Montreal, Crystal Castles, Shonen Knife, GZA, Mission of Burma and dozens of others.

Rapper Lil’ Boosie was sentenced to four years in prison on Monday for violating his probation.

Mayer tells Billboard.com that “Battle Studies” is “an absolute return to music” and explains why his new album marks an improvement over 2006’s “Continuum.”

Here we have everyone’s favorite R&B singer with a flair for haberdashery — that’s hats, to you Curious Georges — Ne-Yo and his video for “Never Knew I Needed.”

In this clip, taken from the soundtrack to Disney’s upcoming animated film, The Princess And The Frog, Ne-Yo longingly wanders around New Orleans’ French Quarter recalling a past love.

There’s a nice symmetry to the video’s setting and the funeral march tumble of the beat. The whole soundtrack — which features songs from Anika Noni Rose and soundtrack maestro Randy Newman  — shares the N.O. vibe. The Princess And The Frog hits theaters on November 26th, while the soundtrack’s out on the 23rd. Check out Ne-Yo’s video and The Princess And The Frog trailer below.

Hopefully you didn’t miss Rihanna on yesterday’s episode of It’s On With Alexa Chung. Yes, Rihanna — whose new single, “Hard” could be the next “Umbrella” — did touch upon the outpouring of fans who’ve supported her decision to speak out and help encourage other women who’ve been the victims of abuse. But she spent most of her time on It’s On With Alexa Chung totally relaxed, joking around, meeting her fans (one of whom received a Rihanna makeover) and having fun with fashion — specifically Alexa Chung’s Museum of Rihanna Art, which exhibited some of Rihanna’s best accessories to date and gave her the chance to discuss how and why she’s adopted such edgy looks. It was a great look at a woman who’s clearly taken back the power which is hers, moved on, and is back to being a fun-loving young woman who’s living her life.

+ Watch Rihanna on MTV’s It’s On With Alexa Chung.

+ Check out more photos of Rihanna on It’s On With Alexa Chung after the jump.

Keeping up with the theme of forlorn bands playing heartbroken jams in a junkyard in the middle of nowhere — something we saw recently with Mayday Parade’s “The Silence” video — This Providence gets lost in their new video for “Keeping On Without You.’

Directed by Carlos Lopez Estrada, “Keeping On Without You” (taken from their Who Are You Now album) finds the Seattle band plying their trade in the wake of what looks like a tornado; jamming amidst the wrecked houses and wrecked lives.

By the end of the proceedings, the houses are still mostly piles of rubble, but it does seem like (spoiler alert) rock and roll makes the sun come out. Which is something, at least.

Which rock hero likes to get tied up in leather? One of our next cover stars, of course! This is your first glimpse of the new issue, which hits newsstands on Wednesday. Do you know who’s the owner of this jacket? Leave your best guesses in the comments. We’ll post another clue tomorrow, so stay tuned!

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A digitally remastered version of the Rolling Stones’ 1991 film Live at the Max — the first feature-length concert movie to be shot using IMAX technology — will be released on Blu-ray and DVD tomorrow, November 10th. Live at the Max was filmed during the Stones’ 1990 European tour in support of their album Steel Wheels, which celebrates its 20th anniversary this year. To this day, it remains the most successful IMAX concert film of all-time.

While your TV set isn’t exactly a towering IMAX screen, you still will be able to appreciate Live at the Max’s crisp picture and excellent audio quality. In addition to the Stones’ greatest hits, ranging from “(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction,” to “You Can’t Always Get What You Want,” the 90-minute film also boasts a trio of Steel Wheels songs.

Look back at the Stones’ beginnings in early photos.

The DVD release of Live at the Max comes just a week after the Rolling Stones’ reissued perhaps their most famous live document, Get Yer Ya-Ya’s Out! The Rolling Stones in Concert, for its own 40th anniversary. Another Stones’ film, the controversial 1972 documentary Cocksucker Blues, recently had a rare screening in New York.

Check out the track list for Live at the Max below:

1. “Continental Drift”
2. “Start Me Up”
3. “Sad Sad Sad”
4. “Tumbling Dice”
5. “Ruby Tuesday”
6. “Rock And A Hard Place”
7. “Honky Tonk Woman”
8. “You Can’t Always Get What You Want”
9. “Happy”
10. “Paint It Black”
11. “2,000 Light Years From Home”
12. “Sympathy For The Devil”
13. “Street Fighting Man”
14. “It’s Only Rock ‘N’ Roll”
15. “Brown Sugar”
16. “(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction”

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The album “Liebe ist Für Alle Da” (“Love is For All”) by German hard rock group Rammstein – currently at No. 2 on Billboard’s European Albums Chart – has been banned from public display in German stores with effect from Nov. 11 on account of its depictions of sadism/masochism, which have been deemed to be harmful to children and young people.

After reinterpreting his past for “The Kinks Choral Collection,” which comes out Nov. 10, Ray Davies says that “my initial instinct is to write some new songs again.” And he may well record them with some familiar colleagues.

After much delay, Lil Wayne’s highly-anticipated rock album, “Rebirth,” is now slated for a Dec. 15 release date according to the Universal Music Group website.

Apologies in advance for the bad food analogy I’m about to make. Clearly I’m bitter about the free bag of generic popcorn I just inhaled for lunch (with “insert brand name of prescription drug you can’t pronounce” printed on the bag). Anyway, you could kind of liken the Florida music scene to a Cracker Barrel menu. Don’t get me wrong: I am ALL for some Hickory Smoked Honey Glazed Ham (Backstreet Boys) and cheese grits (Matchbox Twenty).  And who knows? Maybe I want to wash down my chicken ‘n dumplings (2 Live Crew) with some box wine (Dashboard Confessional).  But Miami synth-rock/electro-pop act Awesome New Republic seems to have just the right amount of pop amazingness without sounding trite (think the electronic bits and driving beats of Miike Snow blended with the psychedelic sweetness of Passion Pit).

Earlier this year, Awesome New Republic — John Hancock, Brian Robertson, and newly-added-for-tour Jorge Rubiera — had a Perez Hilton pop moment when P’rezzers posted a Leighton Meester cover of their track “Birthday.” Side note: Leighton seems to have a knack for hanging with the boys (not that way, pervtown), as evidenced by this summer’s smash Cobra Starship collabo “Good Girls Go Bad” to the literally just-released video “Somebody To Love,” featuring Robin Thicke.

Now, with their brand-new album Hearts, just released on October 27th, and their song “Magic City” (from the previously released EP Rational Geographic Vol. 1) appropriately featured in tomorrow’s Miami-bound episode of The City, Awesome New Republic just might be the best band you’ve never heard of. You’re welcome.

Earlier this year, R&B crooning sensation Trey Songz did a remix of Jay-Z’s “D.O.A.” which, among other things, posited the idea that Trey Songz was just trying to be the best Trey Songz he could be, not some kind of R. Kelly re-tread (in case you thought he was). Trey Songzalso took some shots at R. Kelly, saying that he was too old to be using AutoTune. (The feud was basically like The Hills with more singing.)

Funny thing is, while Songz is hardly a re-tread of R. Kelly, he does share some qualities with he who was trapped in the closet, especially on two of the singles from his ‘09 platter, Ready.

On “LOL ” (yes, that’s WITH a smileyface emoticon) and “I Invented Sex,” Songz comes with an irrefutably catchy melody (“LOL )”and wanton sexual arrogance (“I Invented…”), respectively; two staples of the R. Kelly repertoire. Personally I like “LOL ” (which you can jam to your heart’s content here) the more because a) Soulja Boy and Gucci Mane are on it b) it’s incredibly playful, as any song about texting should be and c) IT’S CALLED LOL SMILEY FACE.

Not that there’s anything particularly wrong with “I Invented Sex,” which you can watch in all its NSFW/ walked-in-on-someone’s-sex-tape glory below, as well as an MTV News Trey Songz interview about the “concept” surrounding the video.

Sliimy’s version of Britney Spears‘ “Womanizer“ has been something of a calling card for the quirky French pop singer. While his Paint Your Face album has plenty to recommend about it — lovely singing, lush arrangements, and off-kilter melodies — Sliimy’s still best known for his unique, lilting cover of Britney’s kiss-off to a bad boy. So it’s only fitting that the video for his “Womanizer” cover, which Sliimy posted to his Myspace, is as idiosyncratic and original as the performance itself.

Sliimy had a series of Los Angeles denziens hold paper cut-outs of him, syncing the stop-motion mannerisms to the song. The result is something incredibly slick, while still retaining a homemade feel. Not unlike Sliimy’s music.

Photo: Oceanic Media Group/FilmMagic

Just two concerts into Britney Spears’ Circus Tour in Australia and the singer is already the center of controversy Down Under. Reviews of Spears’ tour-opening shows in Perth were negative, with critics complaining about the fact that Spears lip-synchs during her performance. While Spears’ lip-synching is no secret to American audiences, Australia’s WA Today called Spears’ first of 14 shows “heavy on miming and light on audience interaction,” adding that she “often had her back to much of the crowd.”

Amid reports that audience members left the show disappointed — with some even walking out on the performance before it ended — the tour’s promoter Paul Dainty told The Australian “Britney is aware of all this and she’s extremely upset by it. She’s a human being. I’m embarrassed, with such a big international entourage here with Britney, to be part of the Australian media when I see that kind of totally inaccurate reporting.” Spears’ manager Adam Leber also came to the singer’s defense, writing on Twitter that “It’s unfortunate that one journalist in Perth didn’t enjoy the show last night. Fortunately the other 18,272 fans in attendance did.”

Check out photos from Britney’s Circus Tour here.

All the hullabaloo around Spears’ performance also caught the attention of New South Wales’ Fair Trade Minister Victoria Judge, who said tickets to Spears’ concerts should carry a disclaimer stating the show is prerecorded, People reports. “It is Britney’s ‘prerogative’ to lip-sync, and it is my job to make sure consumers know what they are paying for up front,” Judge said in a government-backed statement. Rolling Stone noted Spears’ lip-synched performance when the tour kicked off back in March, but that only minimally detracted from the live spectacle of the Circus show.

Yet somehow in all of this, John Mayer has emerged as the voice of reason, with the Battle Studies singer tweeting this weekend, “If you’re shocked that Britney was lip-syncing at her concert and want your money back, life may continue to be hard for you.” Spears’ controversial trek across Australia continues November 11th with a three-night stand in Melbourne.

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