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  Depeche Mode
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  Fragile Tension

The latest music video from Depeche Mode’s Songs of the Universe was just uploaded to YouTube, and the band have gone from a somewhat NSFW video of a guy with a freakishly long tongue cleaning out his girlfriend’s pores to a trippy show that’s a...

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  Green Day
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  21 Guns

While producers for Green Day’s American Idiot musical are busy plotting the transition from Berkeley to Broadway, frontman Billie Joe Armstrong has joined the cast as a producer in the studio to record a new version of 21st Century Breakdown single...

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  The Swell Season

Forgetting Sarah Marshall was a pretty funny movie and all, but it was actor Jason Segel’s hilarious original song “Dracula’s Lament” that truly brought the house down, IMO. Thankfully, that Segel-penned piece was only the beginning of what’s...

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  U2
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  Winter

The “Best Original Song” portion at the Academy Awards is one of the annual Hollywood award show’s weirder categories. Most years I have no idea who is even nominated until the live broadcast when the host introduces Sting, Randy Newman, or...

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  Interpol

Truth be told, I’ve been hunting for news like this for weeks now, scouring the Interwebs for new signs of life from Interpol—aside from Paul Banks’ slightly underwhelming pseudo solo album and Carlos D’s film career, of course. And just when the...

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  Anvil

This isn’t too surprising, but it is a disappointment for those of us hoping to watch Steve “Lips” Kudlow crash the Oscars red carpet. Anvil! The Story of Anvil and It Might Get Loud, Jack White, the Edge, and Jimmy Page’s jam session-turned-film,...

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  Cat Stevens

Yusuf Islam, formerly Cat Stevens, kicked off his first tour in 33 years on Sunday and numerous sources are reporting that the gig did not go smoothly. As the Irish Times notes, Islam’s first set of new and old songs at Dublin’s O2 arena went well,...

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  Charlotte Gainsbourg
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  Heaven Can Wait

Charlotte Gainsbourg and company sure know how to stir up some hype for her forthcoming album IRM, which is produced, co-written, and mixed by Beck. First, they dropped the title track for free (in exchange for an email address), then came a preview...

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  Beach House
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  Norway

I’m a bit embarrassed to admit this in the company of music writing colleagues, but I didn’t warm up to Beach House right away. Sure, it’s hard to hate on Victoria Legrand’s haunting vocals or the duo’s modest drum machine-driven rhythm section, but...

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  The Velvet Underground

News like this sure makes me wish I lived back on the East Coast: The surviving lineup behind not only two of my favorite Velvet Underground songs, but two of my favorite songs of all time, “Candy Says” and “Pale Blue Eyes,” are set to reunite for a...

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  Ben Gibbard

We've been sitting on this bit for a few days now, but the album officially went up for sale only hours ago, so let's spread the word: Caffé Vita, a coffee shop with four locations in Seattle and one in Olympia, WA, is releasing a compilation album...

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  T Bone Burnett

We’re going to jump aboard the hype train for a spell here, as the trailer to the new Jeff Bridges-starring, T Bone Burnett-scored film Crazy Heart just dropped (via the Playlist) and the Oscar buzz comparisons to Mickey Rourke’s turn in The...

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  Peaches

Even if you’ve never heard her name—yet you still pick up a glossy rock mag every so often—you’ve seen her work. Christian Joy, designer for Yeah Yeah Yeahs frontwoman Karen O (and recently of the Klaxons), is now the subject of an upcoming...

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  Bonnie "Prince" Billy

You may have never heard of Estil Cortez Ball and his wife, Orna, but people living among the Blue Ridge Mountains between the 1950s and mid-1970s are likely familiar with their brand of what Root Hog or Die’s Nathan Salsburg describes as “not just...

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  Wilco

So the Weezer Snuggie sold out in only a matter of days, but Wilco’s limited edition mini figurines are still available. Perhaps they need to lower the $49.94 asking price or invest in one of those WTF, blog bait infomercials. Either way (as Tweedy...

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  Jack White

When Jack White produced and performed on Loretta Lynn’s brilliant Van Lear Rose album, he not only proved that his skills as an exuberant frontman could be just as affecting from outside the spotlight, but he also showed the world that a...

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You may now call Jarvis Cocker Dr. Cocker. The singer, radio show host, and animated banjo strummer received an honorary doctorate from his hometown’s Sheffield Hallam University, where he studied briefly when the school was then Sheffield...

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  U2

Either U2 have the biggest stack of bills piling up or they’re the only band getting press about this sort of thing, but another financial woe has hit the arena-packing foursome: Ireland’s Herald reports that Bono, Edge, Larry, and Adam are...

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  Serge Gainsbourg

The trailer to Nowhere Boy, an upcoming film about John Lennon’s adolescence, didn’t make us feel any better about the hit or miss musician biopic genre, but a French-language trailer for Joann Sfar’s new Serge Gainsbourg film just hit the web and...

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