How has the economy affected this year's festival season?
HAINES: Everyone's thinking it's going to be really bad, but the results have been to the contrary. People are still going to concerts.
SHAW: Economic crisis fuels artistic movements. Maybe people don't go out to eat as much. Maybe they don't renovate their houses. But they end up needing more entertainment.

Since bassist Eric Avery left Jane's Addiction in 1992, the band have re-formed occasionally, even releasing an album, Strays, in 2003, with Chris Chaney on bass. But this summer's tour with Nine Inch Nails -- including a headlining gig at Lollapalooza -- marks their first with Avery since then.

In the dim light of a cold, rainy December afternoon, the Washington, D.C. Central Detention Facility stands as a dull colossus at the edge of the city's grimy southeast corridor.

On April 15, 2001, Joey Ramone died in New York City's Presbyterian Hospital due to complications from lymphoma, a form of cancer he had been battling for more than six years. He was 49. To honor his death, SPIN invited Dr.

In SPIN's April 2004 tribute issue to Kurt Cobain, then senior writer Chuck Klosterman posed a compelling and unique question: "What would have happened if Cobain lived?" Below, read Klosterman's theory about what the rock god's future could have held, had he not died 15 years ago.

Editor's Note: 15 years ago on Wednesday, April 8, the body of Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain was discovered at his mansion just outside Seattle, WA. Coroner's reports claim he killed himself three days earlier, making this Sunday, April 5, the unofficial anniversary of Cobain's death.