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Queens of the Stone Age’s Josh Homme, Depeche Mode’s Dave Gahan, The Pretenders’ Chrissie Hynde, and others honored the late Mark Lanegan during a tribute concert at the Roadhouse in London on Thursday night (December 5th).

The star-studded show, dubbed “Mark Lanegan 60 – A Celebration,” was held in honor of the late singer’s 60th birthday (he would have turned 60 on November 25th). The Screaming Trees frontman and erstwhile member of Queens of the Stone Age passed away in February 2022 at the age of 57.

The 30-song setlist featured the performers singing mostly Lanegan’s solo tunes along with three Screaming Trees songs and one Gutter Twins number (“The Stations”).

The show was divided into mini sets, with Gahan singing the first four numbers, then Bobby Gillespie (Primal Scream) and Alison Mosshart each singing a block of songs. Lanegan’s Gutter Twins bandmate Greg Dulli took on four songs, including the aforementioned tune “The Stations.

Josh Homme, Dave Gahan, Chrissie Hynde, and Greg Dulli were among the friends and collaborators who paid tribute to the late Mark Lanegan at a London concert on Thursday, marking what would have been the singer’s 60th birthday.

Alison Mosshart, Primal Scream’s Bobby Gillespie, Ed Harcourt, the Soulsavers, and Troy Van Leeuwen also took part in the memorial show at London’s Roundhouse, which featured 30 songs from Lanegan’s catalog, spanning his Screaming Trees track to his solo work and side projects.

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The late Mark Lanegan will be honored with a December 5th tribute show at London’s Roundhouse. The concert will feature Depeche Mode’s Dave Gahan, Queens of the Stone Age’s Josh Homme, the Pretenders’ Chrissie Hynde, and Afghan Whigs’ Greg Dulli, among others.

The show, dubbed “Mark Lanegan 60 – A Celebration,” will take place 10 days after what would have been the singer-songwriter’s 60th birthday (November 25th). The onetime Screaming Trees frontman died at the age of 57 on February 22nd, 2022.

Among the other artists set to perform are Troy Van Leeuwen (Queens of the Stone Age), Bobby Gillespie (Primal Scream), Alison Mosshart, and multi-instrumentalist Duke Garwood. The production team Soulsavers will serve as the house band.

A listing on the Roundhouse website states, “This special tribute honors Lanegan’s legacy as one of the most revered voices in modern music, with major collaborators and close friends gathering to perform...

Nearly three years after the death of Mark Lanegan, the beloved grunge singer’s closest friends and collaborators will bound together this December for a London tribute concert.

Marking what would have been his 60th birthday, Mark Lanegan – A Celebration will feature guests like his Queens of the Stone Age cohorts Josh Homme and Troy Van Leeuwen, fellow Soulsavers vocalist Dave Gahan of Depeche Mode, his Gutter Twins partner Greg Dulli, and more.

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The late Mark Lanegan’s acclaimed 2004 album Bubblegum is receiving a deluxe 20th anniversary reissue, featuring loads of previously unreleased songs and demos, including a collaboration with Beck.

Titled Bubblegum Xx, the reissue arrives August 23rd, and marks the first posthumous release since Lanegan’s passing in February 2022.

The original Bubblegum album, which has been remastered for this reissue, features a who’s who of guest musicians, including Lanegan’s Queens of the Stone Age bandmates Josh Homme, Nick Oliveri, and Troy Van Leeuwen, as well as The Afghan Whigs’ Greg Dulli, and classic Guns N’ Roses members Duff McKagan and Izzy Stradlin, among others. Singer Pj Harvey also contributes vocals to two of the songs: “Hit the City” and “Come to Me.”

The collaboration with Beck, “Union Turnpike,” is a song that Lanegan had hoped to include on the original version of Bubblegum, but Beck was unable to contribute at the time,...

The Afghan Whigs and The Church are joining forces for a North American co-headlining tour this summer.

The veteran rock bands will hit the road together for an 18-date jaunt beginning on June 18th in Glenside, Pa. The tour’s itinerary also includes shows in Brooklyn, Boston, Washington, DC, Toronto, Detroit, Chicago, Denver, Portland, San Francisco, San Diego, Los Angeles, and beyond. Kristin Hersh of Throwing Muses will appear as a special guest at the Brooklyn show, while Ed Harcourt will appear at all dates except Brooklyn and Milwaukee.

An artist ticket pre-sale begins Tuesday, February 6th at 1:00 p.m. local time (use access code Churchwings). A public on-sale follows on Friday, February 9th via Ticketmaster.

In a statement, The Afghan Whigs frontman Greg Dulli shared a personal anecdote about his longtime fandom of The Church. “I was an 18-year-old college freshman laying in bed listening to Wvxu late...

To borrow a phrase from Jack London’s 1909 novel Martin Eden, which is a book that Twilight Singers frontman Greg Dulli once found profoundly inspirational, the Black Out the Windows box set represents the band’s “work performed.” Did you appreciate these recordings when they were new? Or are you interested in them based on their reputation? Unlike Eden, a proletarian striver-turned-famous author who chided latecomers for sucking up to him after he achieved fame for work already performed, Dulli is more understanding of latecomer. If you weren’t around...

The Twilight Singers have announced a definitive box set titled Black Out the Windows/Ladies and Gentlemen, The Twilight Singers, out in October via One Little Independent Records. In addition to newly remastered versions of the Greg Dulli-led band’s studio releases, it contains an LP of rare and previously unreleased material.

The 13-piece (six 2xLP and one EP) box set was pressed onto 180g crystal clear vinyl housed in reimagined white embossed album sleeves. It contains remasterings of the studio albums Twilight as Played by The Twilight Singers, Blackberry Belle, She Loves You, Powder Burns, and Dynamite Steps as well as the 2006 EP A Stitch in Time. The bonus album, Etcetera, features 11 tracks of rare and previously unreleased material.

Accompanying the vinyl is a 56-page book containing essays by Mark Lanegan, Duff McKagan, The Church’s Steve Kilbey, and more. It also includes career-spanning rare and previously unseen photos by Danny Clinch,...

From tragic deaths (Cobain, Cornell, Lanegan) to careers and bands that have wound down or evaporated, the landscape of alt-rock heroes is fairly bleak these days—which makes it all the more ironic that one of the last men standing is the Afghan Whigs’ Greg Dulli. As the reigning cad of the Nineties alternative gold rush, Dulli was one of the genre’s most polarizing figures, the dude you loved to hate or hated to love. (Remember the Fat Greg Dulli fanzine?) He was never as iconic as Cobain, Cornell or Weiland,...

Greg Dulli lives alone in Los Angeles, but when he picks up the phone, there are voices and music on the other end of the line. “I got to get it together a little bit,” he says as he moves from room to room, silencing radios playing his favorite French station, Fip. Later today, Dulli’s flying to Europe to start a tour with the Afghan Whigs, the angsty, soul-influenced alt-rock band he cofounded in Cincinnati in 1986, and he has been packing and prepping while drawing vibes from the station...

The Afghan Whigs’ first new song in five years, “I’ll Make You See God,” is raw emotion. Frontman Greg Dulli’s lyrics don’t make much sense — there’s something about everything becoming “ebony,” and something else about kissing the night awake, and then there’s his pretentious French pronunciation of “infini” — but, as with many Afghan Whigs songs, Dulli sings these words in a way that makes them seem profound. When paired with the song’s lusty guitar line, courtesy of new member Christopher Thorn, and John Curley’s bass,...

Mark Lanegan, the singer for grunge pioneers Screaming Trees and frequent vocalist for the Josh Homme-founded rock band Queens of the Stone Age, died today at his home in Killarney, Ireland. He was 57.

His death was announced on his official Twitter page. A cause of death was not disclosed.

“Our beloved friend Mark Lanegan passed away this morning at his home in Killarney, Ireland,” the statement reads. “A beloved singer, songwriter, author and musician he was 57 and is survived by his wife Shelley. No other information is available at this time.”

Beginning in 1984, Lanegan fronted the Washington state band Screaming Trees, becoming a central figure in the burgeoning grunge scene that would come to include such groups as Mudhoney, the Melvins, Soundgarden and Nirvana. The band broke up in 2000.

As a solo artist, Lanegan became a frequent collaborator for nearly 15 years with Queens of the Stone Age, appearing on...

Mark Lanegan, the gruff-voiced singer who fronted Screaming Trees before embarking on a successful solo career, died Tuesday at his home in Killarney, Ireland. “No other information is available at this time,” a rep for the singer wrote. “The family asks everyone to respect their privacy at this time.” Lanegan was 57.

Lanegan rose to prominence in the late Eighties and early Nineties as frontman for Screaming Trees, the psychedelic-leaning, Ellensburg, Wash., hard-rock group that foreshadowed grunge. His deep, dramatic voice gave weight to guitarist-songwriter Gary Lee Conner’s compositions in...

Greg Dulli has reunited with his Gutter Twins collaborator Mark Lanegan for a cover of Bob Dylan’s “The Girl From the North Country,” a duet that will appear on the B-side of Dulli’s upcoming Record Store Day exclusive single.

On the cover, premiering here at Rolling Stone, Dulli and Lanegan perform the Nashville Skyline version of the track, with Dulli in the Dylan role and Lanegan singing the Johnny Cash part. The former Afghan Whigs and Screaming Trees singers are backed only by a piano for their rendition of the Dylan classic.

Dave Grohl. Peter Gabriel. T Bone Burnett. Twenty years later, the bold-face names that helped launch Joseph Arthur’s career return in a flood of memories. “The cast of characters who made that project brings back so much love in my heart about it,” Arthur says.

The project was Arthur’s career-defining second album, Come to Where I’m From. In a year of landmark albums — Eminem’s The Marshall Mathers LP, Radiohead’s Kid A, D’Angelo’s Voodoo, Coldplay’s Parachutes — Arthur’s sophomore album may not have...

For a quarter of a century now, Mark Lanegan has been running away from his past.

From the mid-Eighties until 2000, he fronted Screaming Trees, a hard rocking, neo-psychedelic band that got swept up in the major labels’ Seattle-grunge gold rush and crossed over into the mainstream with “Nearly Lost You.” Along the way, Lanegan befriended Kurt Cobain and Layne Staley, recorded with the supergroup Mad Season, and launched a solo career playing bluesy, rootsy rock that was more melancholy and brooding than the output of his grungy peers. He’s always had a deep,...

Alt-rock stalwart Mark Lanegan unveiled a chilling new song, “Bleed All Over,” from his upcoming album, Straight Songs of Sorrow, set to arrive May 8th.

The track boasts an icy post-punk edge thanks to the tight skip of the drums, the queasy synth trails during the verse and rubbery plunks during the hook. Anchoring the song with some semblance of warmth, though, is the constant strum of an acoustic guitar and Lanegan’s resonant vocals as he pleads, “Baby, baby, baby don’t you say it’s over/Now that...

Could it be that after decades of self-flagellation Greg Dulli is ready to cut loose? On Random Desire, the latest solo outing by the Afghan Whigs and Twilight Singers’ resident tortured poet, he sounds like he’s at least willing to try.

The album opens with a spry, buoyant bass line and snappy rhythm on “Pantomima” — a mood that Dulli immediately crushes with his inherent pessimism, singing, “Desolation, come and get it.” A few seconds later, he cracks that his broken heart as been “fixed in post” like a Hollywood...

Less than a year after Mark Lanegan released his 2019 LP, Something’s Knocking, the singer-songwriter returns with a new album he was inspired to record while writing his upcoming memoir.

Straight Songs of Sorrow arrives May 8th, just over a week after Lanegan’s memoir, Sing Backwards and Weep, hits shelves on April 28th. On Wednesday, Lanegan shared the companion album’s first song, “Skeleton Key,” a seven-minute track that recalls Lanegan’s bluesy Nineties solo output.

“Writing the book, I didn’t get catharsis,” Lanegan said of the memoir...

The Afghan Whigs’ Greg Dulli unveiled a scorching new song, “Pantomima” — the first release from his debut solo album under his own name. Random Desire is out February 21st via Royal Cream/BMG.

“Pantomima” opens with a strong bass line, soft hi-hat taps and a prickly guitar lick that soon opens up into a scream and sets the pace for the rest of the track. The song flies forward with a clutched-fist tension that Dulli expertly controls with a vocal performance that swings between a wail and a soft falsetto.

Here’s a shocker: Duff McKagan’s new solo album Tenderness, out today, is more country sounding than some mainstream Nashville releases joining it on record-store shelves. The Guns N’ Roses bassist embraced that rootsy, even twangy, vibe wholeheartedly when he kicked off his solo tour at Philadelphia’s Theatre of Living Arts on Thursday night.

Backed by Shooter Jennings, who produced Tenderness, and Jennings’ four-piece band, including fiddle player Aubrey Richmond, McKagan recreated the woke 11-song LP in its entirety and rewarded Gnr diehards with Use Your Illusion I deep cuts.

Nearly four years after wrapping his acclaimed firefighting drama Rescue Me, Denis Leary is back on FX in a much different role. On the comedy Sex&Drugs&Rock&Roll he plays Johnny Rock, a washed-up, substance-abusing singer whose heralded '90s band broke up the day of their debut album's release. Thanks to the sudden appearance of a daughter he never knew he had, Johnny tries to get the band back together, and things unfold from there. Featuring cameos by Dave Grohl, Joan Jett, and the Afghan Whigs' Greg Dulli, as well as live performances by Leary and his co-stars, the show mines some great, true stories from rock-and-roll history and shows how dysfunctional even the not-so-famous bands can be. Vulture caught up with the 57-year-old Leary to talk about his egomaniacal character, the dangers of acting like a rock star, and how he and Jon Stewart have been fighting...

Denis Leary has a number of guest rock stars appearing in his new FX comic Sex&Drugs&Rock&Roll, which premieres July 16. Lined up are Joan Jett, Foo Fighters’ Dave Grohl and Greg Dulli of Afghan Whigs. But if his series gets a second season, Leary wants David Bowie on the show. “My three favorite bands are the (Rolling) Stones, the Who and David Bowie,” Leary told the Comic-Con Hall H crowd during the Sex&Drugs panel Sunday. “I grew up in the ’70s when there was shitty…...

TCA 2015: Leary also takes a pot shots at pretentious actors while promoting his upcoming FX show

Denis Leary delivered a profanity-fueled riff to weary journalists limping to the finish line Sunday at the Television Critics Association press tour in Pasadena.

A frequent target of his barbs: PBS, which occupies the final two days of the press tour. “I know, you’ve been here for 14 days? Twelve. And you’ve got two days of fucking PBS coming up, right? So the FX day is your fucking last chance.”

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When “Breaking Bad” actor Bob Odenkirk broke the news on Twitter that alt-rock band The Afghan Whigs would be releasing its first new album in 16 years, a lot of people thought “how did that happen?” — both about Odenkirk and the forthcoming “Do to the Beast” (out April 15). Frontman Greg Dulli has revealed more details in two new interviews. Check out the new video for album’s first single, “Algiers,” below. “Do to the Beast” was unexpectedly inspired by a 2013 South by Southwest joint show with R&B star Usher, the band told Rolling Stone. “Doing that Usher show...

The Afghan Whigs, who have already been announced as headliners at this year’s Coachella, will release their first album in 16 years on April 15….That should make tax day a little less painful. “Do To The Beast” will reunite the Greg Dulli-led band with SubPop, its home for such releases as 1990’s “Up In It” and 1992’s “Congregation.” The group’s last new studio release was “1965,” on Columbia Records, which came out in 1998, three years before the band broke up. They reunited in 2012 for live shows. The band has posted a logo for the album, which looks quite scary...

"The only way I can get through the day..." is to check out this new song from the reunited Afghan Whigs. "See and Don't See" is a damned bummer of a cover, but great news for fans of the band -- which hasn't performed together live in 13 years. This track is their first new one in five, after in 2007 they dropped "Unbreakable: A Retrospective 1990-2006" which contained two new tracks recorded when the Greg Dulli-led band reunited temporarily to record "I'm a Soldier" and "Magazine." The band officially split in 2001 and last released their album "1965" in 1998....

Swaggering, soulful rock group The Afghan Whigs have released their first music since reuniting late last year: a cover of 1970's "See And Don't See" from mercurial funk star Marie "Queenie" Lyons, whose under-appreciated, one-and-done recording career has made her a cult favorite over the years. It's not hard to see Greg Dulli and Co. identifying with Lyons and her never quite achieving the acclaim she deserved during her time, but it's probably more that Dulli just really wanted to sing the lyric, "If I ever face reality… I know that it will be the end ...

After a quick revamp thanks to Guided By Voices' cancellation, All Tomorrow's Parties' I’ll Be Your Mirror music festival has announced its revised 2012 lineup. Headlined by the reunited Afghan Whigs (whose frontman Greg Dulli is curating the festival), Louis C.K., and The Roots, the lineup boasts more than 35 acts. Other performers include Jose Gonzalez, the Mark Lanegan Band, Dirty Three, The Antlers, The Dirtbombs, The Make-Up, Hot Snakes, Scrawl, Sharon Van Etten, Emeralds, The Magic Band, Autolux, Vetiver, Quintron and Miss Pussycat, Thee Oh Sees, Factory Floor, Death Grips, Questlove, Charles Bradley And The Extraordinaires ...

All Tomorrow's Parties America has announced their initial I'll Be Your Mirror USA 2012 lineup. As always, the lineup does not disappoint. This September 21-23 the Asbury Park, NJ Atp festival curated by Greg Dulli (The Afghan Whigs) will feature some of it's best performances to date. The headliners include Dulli's own Afghan Whigs along with The Roots and comedian Louis C.K....

Careful fans of modern indie rock probably think they know Mark Lanegan fairly well. Better, even, than the Screaming Trees from whence he once came. Latter day Lanegan, the guttural purveyor of dark night of the soul music, the voice of swamp wind on a muddy graveyard, the sin-stoked demon growl that howitzers through the weird holes Isobell Campbell, Greg Dulli or Josh Homme leave for him in their music together.

One thing has kept Mark Lanegan from the hitting the stratospheric highs and catastrophic lows of his grunge-era peers: the timelessness of his voice. Even in his best-known outfit, Screaming Trees, his single-barrel baritone conjured feral purrs and psychedelic wails, sounding so huge it swallowed everything in sight—often including the music it accompanied. Age has been kind to Lanegan, due in part to the taste and aptness of his post-Trees collaborations, most notably with folk-pop chanteuse Isobel Campbell and fellow grizzled vet Greg Dulli. But with Blues Funeral, the new album from Mark Lanegan Band, the singer has done ...

The Afghan Whigs will play their first show in 13 years when the Greg Dulli-led band reunites for All Tomorrow’s Parties “I’ll Be Your Mirror” festival at London’s Alexandra Palace on May 27. The revered Cincinnati band are taking the slot that had been held by Guided By Voices, who cancelled because they broke up and have cancelled all 2012 (and we presume beyond that) bookings. Other performers during the May 25-27 festival, curated by Mogwai and Atp, include Slayer, Sleep, Mudhoney, Yuck, the Melvins, and a reunited Codeine. Newly added are The Archers of Loaf and Chavez, who reformed last...

Marianne Faithfull’s new album begins with a particularly well-chosen cover. She kicks off Horses and High Heels with the ominous chords and spiritual misgivings of “The Stations,” by the Gutter Twins (better known as Greg Dulli and Mark Lanegan). With its ominous pace and prickly guitars, it’s a perfect showcase for Faithfull’s distinctive voice, a gravelly instrument that locates new trials and transgressions in these lyrics. “Oh mama, ain’t no time to fall to pieces,” she sings in that beautifully scarred rasp, as though steeling herself against sins too dark for salvation....

The 2011 MTV Movie Awards aren't just an excuse to hand out buckets of golden popcorn (though, make no mistake about it, we'll be on the edge of our seat when they announce the winner of "Best Scared-As-s--- Performance,") they're also the go-to source for some thoroughly kick-ass musical performances, courtesy of the Foo Fighters, Lupe Fiasco and Trey Songz.

In fact, since they first started in 1992, the Movie Awards have made it a point to feature music, too, and over the years, everyone from D'Angelo to Weezer have graced its stage. So with the 2011 show looming on the horizon (it airs live, Sunday, June 5 at 9 p.m. Et/8 p.m. Ct on MTV,) we decided to take a look back at the Movie Awards' long musical history, and choose the 10 best performances of all time. Sadly, neither Ken Jeong's interpretive dancing or the Les Grossman/Jennifer Lopez booty workout...

Listen, gentlemen of the Pajibaverse, don't think I didn't see you asking to see pictures of my dirty pillows last night (and, I guess, today for some of you) however I believe I've previously alluded to the fact that both my parents read this site so as far as Pajiba goes any of you hoping for a glimpse of the currently kind of reddish (I spent Easter on the beach) globes are shit out of luck. Besides, the always lovely and accommodating Joanna put up a gallery of lovely ladies and their lovely lady lumps that put me to shame in so many ways I can't begin to list all of them, so you can have your fill of mammary gawking over there. It's for the best, really, those are some Professional boobs whereas mine are utterly amateur. As far as gawking at the TV goes, you'll not find much...

I haven't been feeling well today, which meant I spent most of the morning and afternoon having the kind of strange dreams that I remember for about five minutes and then forget completely except for random bits that end up in conversation somehow and make me look crazy. I don't remember my normal dreams at all, generally, but sick dreams/fever dreams stick with me for long periods of time making me concerned about my mental state. I'll keep myself from mentioning details, but one seemed to center around a parking garage. Here's your Wednesday night TV:

8:00pm: "American Idol" on Fox

"America's Next Top Model" on The CW. 16th season premiere.

"The Middle" on ABC

"Minute to Win It" on NBC

"Nova: Sciencenow" on PBS

"Survivor" on CBS

8:30pm: "Better With You" on ABC

"Throwdown with Bobby Flay" on Food Network

9:00pm: "Criminal Minds" on CBS

"Ghost Hunters" on SyFy.

Remarkably, several of the late night talk shows did not take President's Day (Monday, February 21) off, so if you're reading this right now you have already missed the likes of Adele (who absolutely smoldered during a performance on Monday night's "The Late Show With David Letterman"), Good Charlotte (who rocked the early morning crowd on "Live! With Regis & Kelly") and Ed Helms (who cracked up everybody during a lively interview on "Conan"). But despite the commitment from a handful of hosts (including everybody on cable), the bulk of Monday night's shows were repeats. Fret not, though, because the rest of the week has a fantastic parade of fresh celebrities and killer musical performances as the winter grinds on.

"The Late Show With David Letterman" rounds out its week with visits from "Parks & Recreation" star Amy Poehler (Tuesday, February 22), baseball legend Hank Aaron (Wednesday, February 23) and can't-miss performances by Bright Eyes (Thursday,...

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Like Nick, I have the post-Grammy fever. Arcade Fire’s win was so well-earned, it’s one of those award show moments where you really feel that what happened was right (another such victory in my mind was American Beauty‘s win at the Oscars.) Here, Arcade Fire performs an electric version of “Ready To Start” after winning their Grammy.

Lady Gaga disappointed me on Sunday. Her “costume” resembled a bikini raincoat and the egg looked cool, but wasn’t very functional. Plus her song sounded exactly like Madonna’s “Express Yourself”. I was hoping that Her Madgesty would jump out and join in the performance, but oh well. Fever Ray’s Karin Andersson won an award at a Swedish music awards show back in June.

After starting off with some enticing programming and beats courtesy of British electro duo Fila Brazillia, The Twilight Singers quickly morphed into an Afghan Whigs-like big-rock project, presumably due to the fact that former Whigs singer Greg Dulli lost his day job following the release of Twilight As Played By The Twilight Singers. While that certainly isn’t a bad thing on paper, in practice, it’s translated into a handful of great songs surrounded by lots of simply serviceable music, propelled by Dulli’s devilish charm, but lacking the spark that the other Whigs brought to the proceedings. Not ...

With 2010 coming to a close, it's time to reflect on the cultural year that was. And while most of the MTV News staff is focused on putting the best (and not-as-good) moments, songs, albums and performances of the year in grand perspective, it's also important to take a look back at some personal highlights. That's why the MTV Newsroom Blog posed this question to a handful of staffers: What was your single favorite concert experience of 2010?

We see a lot of shows here, so a few people cheated and named more than one event. But that's Ok, because the more the merrier. Check out our picks below and let us know what your favorite concert was in the comments!

Jocelyn Vena

It's my job to go to concerts, and this year I had the pleasure of seeing some really big stars in concert, including the Jonas Brothers, Demi Lovato, Lady Gaga and even Rihanna.

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“It Gets Better” is a campaign started by Dan Savage to stop gay teens from committing suicide. Pixar recently made a film, and it’s pretty touching.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=4a4MR8oI_B8

A few years ago, I asked my Grandma for her pecan pie recipe. I expected an old family secret. Instead, I was informed it was from the back of the Karo Syrup bottle. Mind you, it’s a really amazing pie. Make your own. Donal Logue’s TV show, Terriers, is one of the best things on right now. The first season’s almost done but you can catch up on iTunes or Hulu and you should. It’s on the bubble right now, FX haven’t announced...

If you were to ask me who the greatest living songwriters were, I would have no hesitation naming the one I consider to be number one: Greg Dulli, former frontman and mastermind behind Afghan Whigs and current member of both the Gutter Twins (his collaboration with former Screaming Trees frontman Mark Lanegan) and the Twilight Singers (his New Orleans-centric solo project that features a rotating cast of collaborators). There's a new Twilight Singers album coming out early next year, but on Tuesday night (October 19), Dulli brought three band members onto the stage of New York's Bowery Ballroom and delivered an acoustic set of songs from just about every corner of his long career. The set only drove home just how great Dulli has been (and continues to be).

Bathed in almost complete darkness (he asked that the lights be turned down, and two songs later asked they be turned down...

On Wednesday night (July 21), Katy Perry unveiled the album cover for her upcoming LP Teenage Dream (which is set to hit store shelves on August 24). In typical Perry fashion, the cover is eye-catching, provocative and sexy, featuring a nude Perry ensconced in pink cotton candy (a continuation on the themes set up in the video for her chart-topping single "California Gurls"). Perry is no stranger to nudity (she is starkers in the "California Gurls" clip and once tweeted a photo of herself eating a pizza while soaking naked in a bathtub), so the cover isn't a surprise.

But the practice of putting naked people on album covers is as old as rock and roll, and though there are a handful of classic nude covers, Perry's tops them all. Here are her new peers. (Obviously, all of the links below lead to some level of nudity, so click with caution.)

Jimi Hendrix,...

Houston hip-hop mastermind Bun B has a new album coming out on August 3 called Trill O.G., and like his best work (both as a solo artist and as one half of Ugk), it's full of rugged rhymes, glossy production (courtesy of the likes of Boi-1da, DJ Khalil, the Neptunes and others) and some razor-sharp guest appearances by Young Jeezy, Drake, Raekwon and T-Pain. The latter provides the hook on the just-released single "Trillionaire," on which Bun brags about being "a self-made trillionaire."

In bragging about such incredible wealth, Bun B has left the middling economy in the dust and kicked the inflation level way, way up. To our knowledge, nobody has ever touted being worth one trillion dollars, which is the sort of money that even Bill Gates and Oprah Winfrey have to dream about. So until somebody comes along and brands himself a quadrillionaire or a quintillionaire,...

Foo Fighters are one of the biggest bands in the world today, able to fill stadiums all over the world on the power of a career's worth of hit singles and platinum-selling albums. But they had to start somewhere, and on this day in 1997, Dave Grohl's band made a massive step towards cementing themselves as a true player and not just "the new project from the drummer from Nirvana."

On May 20, 1997, Foo Fighters released The Colour and the Shape, the second album to carry their name but the first that Grohl recorded with a real band behind him. Foo Fighters' 1995 self-titled debut was little more than a solo project for Grohl, who recorded all of the guitar, bass, drums and vocal parts himself (save for a bit of additional guitar work care of Greg Dulli on a track called "X-Static"). But when it came time to tour and make videos,...

Today marks the release of the hotly-anticipated new album from Nas and Damian "Junior Gong" Marley. The record, called Distant Relatives, is not just a team-up between two musical giants but is also for a good cause, as the proceeds will go towards some form of support for Africa (possibly the construction of a school in the Congo). The album weds hip-hop and reggae influences beautifully, and even though he's talking about issues in Africa and not tales of the street, Nas' spitting is especially on point.

In fact, Distant Relatives immediately enters in the conversation regarding the best album-length collaborations of all time. What others are in said conversation? Glad you asked.

Method Man and Redman, Blackout! and Blackout! 2

Meth and Red are the gold standard among musical tag teams. They have made countless guest appearances on each others' songs and have also gotten together for at least one...

On Monday (May 10), we celebrated the birthday of one of the greatest rock frontmen of all time in U2's Bono. Today, we raise a cyber toast to another amazing frontman and songwriter: Greg Dulli, the man behind Afghan Whigs, the Twilight Singers and the Gutter Twins. Dulli's profile is certainly much smaller than Bono's, but he is no less fascinating or talented.

A native of suburban Ohio, Dulli began his musical career in the late 1980s as the frontman of Afghan Whigs, a band who blended together elements of punk, R&B, '70s rock and noisy underground rock for a unique, forward-thinking stew. They built a bit of buzz with their sweaty, savage live shows and their early albums Up In It and Congregation. But it was their major label debut Gentlemen that really scored big with critics and fans of the underground. Though they had some brushes...

Everybody raise a glass to salute Dave Grohl, who turns 41 years old today. The Foo Fighters frontman can currently be seen sitting behind the drum kit for Them Crooked Vultures, the superstar power trio that also includes Queens of the Stone Age mastermind Josh Homme and Led Zeppelin bassist John Paul Jones. It's a comfortable spot for Grohl, who got his start in the music business as a skinsman for Washington, D.C. hardcore band Scream. He used those early gigs to sharpen the rugged, almost melodic style that helped define the sound of Nirvana, the group he joined in 1990.

As a part of one of the defining acts of the alternative rock revolution, Grohl's drums became as important as Kurt Cobain's wail. Just consider how powerful the snare crashes the party during the intro of "Smells Like Teen Spirit" or the way the fills flesh out the hook during "In Bloom.

If you see Mark Lanegan today (and considering how tall and imposing he is, you can't really miss him), be sure to give him a slap on the back and wish him a happy birthday. The Seattle icon turns 45 years old today, and he can feel pretty good about the decades he has spent creating music. Best known as the frontman for Screaming Trees (the band lumped in with the grunge movement who were secretly much heavier, more psychedelic monster than anybody gave them credit for), Lanegan has made a career out of lending his distinct voice (a whiskey-soaked croon that can shift into an apocalyptic metal growl) to a variety of projects. He's currently a member of the Gutter Twins, his collaboration with former Afghan Whigs frontman Greg Dulli, but he has also teamed up with Belle and Sebastian member Isobel Campbell and Josh Homme of Queens of the Stone Age.