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Peter Gabriel Solo Career Captured on Two-CD Set

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Peter Gabriel began his solo career with the terrific song “Solsbury Hill,” from the first of several solo albums that were all self-titled. The results are now on a staggering, mesmerizing two CD set called Live Blood from Eagle Rock Entertainment. The music for his CD set was recorded live at London’s iconic Hammersmith Apollo on March 23 last year, and several of the songs are now legendary, among them “Sledgehammer,” “Don't Give Up” and “Red Rain.”...
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Jack White’s Disturbing Video; Is it Kiddie Porn? (watch!)

Keith Girard
Jack White fires a blunderbuss in his new video for “Sixteen Saltines,” and it’s loaded with disturbing images of children that border on kiddie porn at worst, and a manual for depraved juvenile delinquency at best. White is flying solo now, but the tune has the same jarring guitar and pounding beat of his White Stripes days. Maybe the route he’s taking with the video is the only way to get attention in these coarse times....
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Rufus Wainwright Taps Helena Bonham Carter for New Video

Keith Girard
Rufus Wainwright, muse to the terminally hip, enlisted Helena Bonham Carter as a sexually frustrated librarian for the video for “Out of the Game,” the first single off his upcoming album by the same name. Wainwright himself goes through at least three separate personas in the clip; a debonair 10 o’clock scholar in a natty fedora, a woman with a mop hairdo and a stoned dude in a Sonic Youth tee-shirt....
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Flaming Lips, Bon Iver Sing 'Ashes in Air' Off New Album (listen!)

Keith Girard
The Flaming Lips have gone through the mill, but Wayne Coyne has always been its guiding star. Now he calls on a slew of friends for new album The Flaming Lips And Heady Fwends. Lead single “Ashes in the Air” with Bon Iver is their first release. The new record is notable because it will be released on vinyl on Record Store Day (Apr. 21) and because more than a dozen artists collaborate on the double LP set....
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Joe Walsh Laments All Things Digital on Analog Man (listen)

Keith Girard
Guitar god Joe Walsh, most famously of The Eagles, rails against today’s digital world on “Analog Man,” the lead single off his new album, the first in 20 years. Now if he can only find an analog woman. Walsh, 64, hasn’t lost a thing from the heyday of his career with the James Gang and The Eagles. His new song is filled with zinging guitar rifts and lyrics that double as social commentary, something remarkably missing from most pop music today....
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Reclusive Fiona Apple Sings at SXSW Music Fest (watch!)

Keith Girard
Fiona , who makes public appearances like a lunar eclipse, was back in full force at the South By Southwest Music Conference and Festival in Austin, TX. She put on a showcase of old songs and new tracks slated to be released on a new album sometime this summer. Apple, 34, set the music world on its ear when he debut album Tidal was released in 1996. She was just 19. Her distinctive contralto voice, piano skills and biting, angst-filled lyrics set her apart....
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Taylor Momsen Depraved, Over-Medicated in New Video (watch!)

Keith Girard
Taylor Momsen redraws the line again on sexual depravity–lower, of course–in a new video for her song “My Medicine.” Only thing is she’s so far out in front she’s basically left competing with herself. The video features topless waitresses, a woman prancing around with her backside hanging out, lots of drug references and paraphernalia, cigarette smoking, under-age drinking, gratuitous sex and everyone looking generally wasted. Did she miss anything?...
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Taylor Momsen Softens Edges for New You Video (watch!)

Keith Girard
aylor Momsen never gets out of her tank top and panties in the new video for her moody ballad “You.” It’s a departure from her usual hard-edged rock, where she’s banging out tunes on stage and variously taking off her clothes. Momsen and her band, The Pretty Reckless, will open for the North America leg of Marilyn Manson’s tour, and the singer says she’s been hold up rehearsing....
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Taylor Momsen Looks Pretty Wrecked in FHM Mag (photos)

Keith Girard
Taylor Momsen turned 18 last July, but she seems a little too cool for Playboy. So she pulls up her shirt for the UK edition of FHM magazine in a new photo shoot and opens up her heart about stripper shoes. Honest! Momsen, the former "Gossip Girl" actress, has been touring with her band The Pretty Reckless She definitely fills a void in rock 'n roll since Kourtney Love gave in to booze, pills and self-absorption....
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Coldplay Takes on the Night in Charlie Brown Video (watch)

Keith Girard
Chris Martin and Coldplay seem like an odd band to channel teen angst on a rainy night. But the new video for “Charlie Brown” is all about restless, devil-may-care world where nothing matters but the music. If the rave scene is a little clichéd, so be it. The point is about getting lost in the moment, forgetting the real world and its dismal reality and letting loose like there is no tomorrow....
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