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50 Katy Perry The 23-year-old glamour obsessive behind the year's most divisive No.1 smash
doesn't seem to care what you think—as long as you're paying attention to
her every fabulous move.
56 T-PAIN
The schlubby, AutoTune-addicted crooner is the R&B star for the common man,"Out
of the 200 dudes in any club, only six are macks," he says. "I talk
to the other 1941"
60 David COOK
The newest American Idol winner gets back to his pre-fame roots: tending bar for
an evening, at Blender's request. Now if he could just figure out how to make
a cosmo.
66 MOTORMOUTHS
From the Sugarhill Gang's Lincoln Continental to Vanilla Ice's Mustang 5.0 L to
Jay-Z's Maybach, it's our automotive history of hip-hop. REGULARS
13 BLENDER BIBLE
18 LETTERS
23 BURNER
Halloween spooktacular: If pop stars were ghouls
28 USEFUL TIPS: KARDINAL OFFISHALL
The Canuck rapper on how to look extra badass on a motorcycle
32 ALMOST FAMOUS: LENKA
Aussie songstress writes koala-cute piano pop
34 ASK BLENDER
The dirty little secret behind that Muppet Show song
36 GREATEST SONGS EVER: "BUDDY HOLLY"
How the L.A. foursome Weezer created their signature dweeb anthem
38 TOP 33 CHART
42 DEAR SUPERSTAR: CHRISSIE HYNDE
The 57-year-old Pretenders frontwoman and vegan restaurateur on trashing cop cars,
guest-starring on Friends and almost marrying Sid Vicious
46 STATION TO STATION
Our columnist assembled a two-hour iPod play list of live versions of one Radiohead
song. Here's why.
96 WHO DOES AUSTIN WINKLER THINK HE IS?
The Hinder front-dude on his fears (spiders), his taste in alcohol ("whatever's
around") and his romantic skills ("I make love like a lesbian") THE GUIDE
71 NEW RELEASES
Metallica, AC/DC, Young Jeezy and more
80 REISSUES Bob Dylan, the Clash, Sarah McLachlan and more
82 BACK CATALOGUE: THE BYRDS
In the course of five years, they invented both folk rock and country rock
84 MOVIES
Synecdoche, New York and Zack and Miri Make a Porno
86 GAMES
Guitar Hero World Tour, Rock Band 2 and more
