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The concept behind Peter Gabriel's forthcoming indie rock covers project is an intriguing one: it's a song swap, Peter singing over orchestral reinterpretations of songs from a staggering list of artists -- Bon Iver, Lou Reed, the Mag Fields, Radi... more info
NME.COM - Reviews Blog — Digging up buried treasure from the depths of our collection.
This week – Luke Turner on the post-punk obscurity that warmed the young Jarvis Cocker’s cockles.
It was not being forced to wear lederhosen as a teenager that inspired Jarvis Cocke... more info
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As Arcade Fire look forward to finishing the follow-up to 2007’s Neon Bible, Rolling Stone’s Brian Hiatt caught up with frontman Win Butler to look back at the decade and some of the band’s watershed moments, from ... more info
MTV.com News — Benefits for Hurricane Katrina, 9/11 and the Asian tsunami similarly called on celebs to help raise money.By Jayson Rodriguez
George Clooney
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George Clooney and Wyclef Jean have been burning the midnight oil... more info
Guardian Music — 'Rock's not all carnal glamour. You spend a lot of time sitting around backstage, fiddling with bits of cheese'What got you started?Being brought up in a very unusual way. My mother was an artist and my father an obsessive classical music fan. We wer... more info
Guardian Music — He's been a Roxy original, the inventor of 'ambient', Bowie's muse, the brain in Talking Heads and U2's 'fifth man'. Now Eno tells us where he's heading nextWhen influential music website Pitchfork listed its 100 greatest albums of the 1970s –... more info
Rolling Stone — In lieu of the recent late-night wars that threaten to end Conan O’Brien’s too-brief tenure as host of the The Tonight Show, this week’s Flashback reminisces about one of our all-time favorite performances from Conan’s gig on Late Night. One ... more info
After David Bowie's first album flopped he ran a folk night in Beckenham, studied mime and, fortunately, wrote Space Oddity, the hit that saved his career. Now his unloved debut is being re-released. Will Hodgkinson reports more info
Guardian Music — (Geffen)Fyfe Dangerfield's band Guillemots make adventurous songs that throw in not just the kitchen sink but associated plumbing as well. His fabulous solo debut is the opposite, though. Recorded in just five days in a little studio, two songs are m... more info
Guardian Music — Before he was a gay alien sex demagogue, David Bowie peddled gnomes, Edwardiana and Kenneth Williams impersonations. But there's no need to run, says Alexis PetridisNo artist's musical past has come back to haunt them quite like David Bowie's. There ... more info