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René Pérez Joglar of the band Calle 13 performs at the 2012 Celebrate Brooklyn festival at Prospect Park Bandshell in New York City on July 13, 2012.

When Calle 13 took the stage at the Prospect Park Bandshell on Friday night, a roaring crowd and hundreds of Puerto Rican flags welcomed them with island pride. Thousands of fans filled the park to capacity and lined the surrounding fences just to get a glimpse of the Puerto Rican rap duo – stepbrothers Residente (René Pérez Joglar) and Visitante (Eduardo José Cabra Martínez), plus sister PG-13 (Ileana Cabra Joglar) – who were the headlining act at LAMC and Celebrate Brooklyn's free concert.

After performing a brief medley of old and new tracks from their 2008 album up to their latest, Grammy-winning recordings, Entren Los Que Quieran and Los de Atrás Vienen Conmigo, Residente gave a shout-out to Brooklyn and the transitional neighborhood Bushwick, which he could be calling home soon.

"I find Brooklyn very interesting," said the lead rapper during an exclusive interview backstage with Rolling Stone. "I'm looking for a neighborhood and space that's really booming artistically." Despite considering the new home of the Brooklyn Nets an epicenter of art and culture, René explains that he isn't officially Brooklyn-bound as of yet: "I haven't officially decided. I've been considering Brooklyn, but I'm still wrestling with where I'm going to settle down."

Call it an artistic recharge for his tongue-bending lyrics, which kick politically conscious messages tied to raw verses and sexual euphemisms. It's exactly those elements that have allowed Calle 13 to transcend beyond the Latin hip-hop genre and make them a global phenomenon.

A testament of Residente's mastery is his latest collaborative single with the New York-based Latino band Outernational (featuring Rage Against the Machine guitarist Tom Morello and Red Hot Chili Peppers drummer Chad Smith), "Todos Somos Illegales." The 34-year-old rapper laces the track with quick and heavy satire, challenging the exclusionary labels placed on marginalized groups in the U.S.

"I respect that North American musicians wanted to touch on that topic," he said at the bandshell, adding that "even though they were creative monsters working on the track, I was like, 'Whatever – I like the hook and I'm going to do something with this.' I [recorded] it in one night."

Being a voice for a progressive vision and painting a world of struggle and triumph, Calle 13's philosophy speaks for itself. "The people whose jobs are to protect and serve end up turning a blind eye to a lot of issues that are important to us," said Residente. "There's no creativity [in the government], and so they end up adopting the same old ways of doing things. Not everything has to be by the book. That obviously hasn't been working."

Calle 13 has begun working on their sixth studio album, expected to drop mid-2013, which will include some English tracks. "The album is going to be very Calle 13, but I want to include other languages in there," explained Residente. "I want to master English first, because I don't want other people translating my stuff for me."

Dwelling on why the group wants to record in English, he responded thoughtfully: "At a personal level, I want to communicate with my fan base in the States. Imagine 'Querido FBI' in English so they can really understand what's going on. There are a lot of people that are unaware of our message even though they listen to us."

Fans can expect the group's visionary style to continue evolving. "Very few people understand what's really going on in Puerto Rico and Latin America right now," said Residente. "We want to touch on those heavier topics."

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'Breaking Bad' Nets 2.9 Million Viewers for Season Five Premiere

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Aaron Paul as Jesse Pinkman and Bryan Cranston as Walter White in 'Breaking Bad'

Breaking Bad drew 2.9 million viewers for the premiere of its fifth and final season last night, making it the most-watched episode in the show's run, the Hollywood Reporter reveals.

The numbers increased by 14 percent from last summer's fourth season debut, while the show as a whole saw a significant 34 percent season-over-season gain among adults 18-49, with 1.9 million watching last night.

During the show's panel at Comic-Con International in San Diego last weekend, stars Bryan Cranston and Aaron Paul – dressed in yellow hazmat suits that were perfect for, say, cooking meth – promised that this season will be the show's darkest yet.

"This entire season is just creepy, unsettling," said Paul, who plays meth dealer Jesse Pinkman.

Be sure to check out our recap of last night's intense premiere as well as our interview with show creator Vince Gilligan, who delves into the episode as well as the fate of Cranston's character, the protagonist Walter White.

"There are an awful lot of loose ends when you are forging a meth kingdom," said Gilligan. "There are so many I's to dot and T's to cross when you're on your meteoric rise to becoming Scarface. And a lot of paperwork that needs to get done, you know? The paperwork is endless."

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Steven Tyler's 'Idol' Departure Influenced Jennifer Lopez's Own Exit

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Jennifer Lopez speaks with Steven Tyler on 'American Idol.'

After announcing her departure from the American Idol judges' table last week, Jennifer Lopez revealed in an interview with ABC News that her exit was partly influenced by the decision of fellow judge and Aerosmith frontman Steven Tyler to leave the singing competition as well.

"We had magic," Lopez said during the interview. "I don't know, with him gone, it might be a different formula."

In a statement announcing his departure, Tyler said "it's time for me to let go of my mistress, American Idol, before she boils my rabbit" and return to his "first love," Aerosmith. The band is currently out on tour and prepping for the release of their new album, Music From Another Dimension.

Both Lopez and Tyler joined Idol in 2011, and both decided to call it a day after just two seasons. This currently leaves Randy Jackson – who has worked on the show since it started in 2002 – as the sole Idol judge, though it's been rumored he may be looking to become more of a mentor on the show rather than a judge.

With spaces at the judges' table to be filled, Lopez offered her own suggestions: "I think like Bono or Bon Jovi or Mick Jagger," she said. "You know me, I think big."

Lopez also revealed that she did leave open the opportunity to return to the show in the future, perhaps for a some sort of collaboration.

"I love them and they love me, and it’s hard when I feel like I should move on," she said. "I don’t know that it’s even done yet. I don’t know. I feel like I’m moving on."

Lopez's decision to leave Idol came last Friday when the singer called into host Ryan Seacrest's radio show to discuss her future on the show.

"Something had to give, and that's, I think, where I am right now," Lopez told Seacrest. "I honestly feel that the time has come, that I have to get back to doing the other things that I do that I've put kind of on hold."

Always busy, Lopez is currently on tour with Enrique Iglesias and lent her voice to the animated flick Ice Age: Continental Drift, which just opened.

"It got me back in touch with who I was, watching the contestants and singers,” Lopez recalled of Idol during her ABC interview. "That’s why it’s hard to walk away."

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Report: Coachella Promoters to Announce New Cruise

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The Coachella Music and Arts Festival in Indio, CaliforniaKarl Walter/Getty Images for Coachella

Goldenvoice, the promotions company behind Coachella, are expected to announce later today that they will be expanding the brand of their hit music festival to include a cruise, the Los Angeles Times reports.

While those asked about the cruise did not give specific details regarding cost, dates or who might play, it is expected the ship would sail out of Florida perhaps as early as December. "The ship looks amazing," siad one artist representative who works with Goldenvoice.

The expansion comes as no surprise for the ever-growing Goldenvoice: Just this year they presented Coachella on two consecutive weekends, a move that grossed $47.3 million. The company has already set aside two weekends for Coachella next year.

Concert cruises have also become more common over the past few years, with artists ranging from Weezer to R. Kelly to the biggest names in EDM setting sail.

The Coachella cruise also comes on the heels of a recent flare-up between Goldenvoice and Indio, California, the desert town that hosts Coachella and Goldenvoice's country festival, Stagecoach. Recently a city councilman proposed a 5-10 percent admission tax for events of more than 2,500 people, which would have raised Coachella ticket prices by $18 to $36, an increase Goldenvoice was not willing to absorb or pass along to ticket buyers.

More recently, however, the councilman backed away from his proposal after Goldenvoice considered finding a new location for Coachella and even canceling the 2014 fest.

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Three Stabbed During Swedish House Mafia Show

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DJ Sebastian Ingrosso of Swedish House Mafia performs at Roseland Ballroom in New York City on April 6, 2012.

Three men were left injured after being stabbed during a Swedish House Mafia show in Milton Keynes, U.K. on Saturday, NME reports.

According to reports from the Thames Valley Police, one of the men, a 23-year-old from the West Midlands area, is being treated for a punctured lung at Milton Keynes General Hospital. Another 23-year-old man was treated by an onsite ambulance for minor injuries; the third man, a 24-year-old, received cuts on his head and arm but was discharged from the hospital.

"This appears to have been an isolated incident, and overall we are very pleased with how the event passed off," said Detective Chief Inspector Justin Fletcher. "But we would like to trace the person responsible for this assault."

Police described the suspect they are looking for in connection with the attacks as a white man in his early 20s wearing a Nike T-shirt, black jacket and black jogging bottoms. A police spokesman added, "Anyone who witnessed the incident, particularly if they captured it on their camera or mobile phone, is requested to contact the police."

Other arrests were made at the show, with three taken into custody on suspicion of possession of Class-A drugs with intent to supply. None of the arrests were reported to relate to the stabbings.

Just a week ago, a 23-year-old man was charged with multiple stabbings that left nine injured during a show at Dublin's Phoenix Park that Swedish House Mafia headlined, with other performances from Snoop Dogg, Calvin Harris, and Tinie Tempah.

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Pop Hitmaker Benny Blanco Talks 'Payphone' Success, Ke$ha's New Sound

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Benny Blanco at the 60th annual BMI Pop Awards in Beverly Hills, California

Benny Blanco knows how to make a hit. The 24-year-old producer-songwriter, who first cut his teeth with Dr. Luke, has helped architect some of the past half-decade's chart-toppers, including Katy Perry's "Teenage Dream" and "California Gurls," Ke$ha's "Tik Tok" and "We R Who We R," and Britney Spears' "Circus."

For his latest gig, the Reston, Virginia native piggybacked off last year's success in producing Maroon 5's chart-crashing single, "Moves Like Jagger," with "Payphone," a pattering earworm that features rapper Wiz Khalifa. After working with Khalifa on his latest single "Work Hard, Play Hard," Blanco wanted to throw a wrench into the Maroon 5 machine by adding some hip-hop flavor to the band's sound. "I love when things don't make sense, like, 'Holy fuck!'" explains Blanco. "You don't hear him on the song at all. I like when bands dip into a whole different genre."

Co-produced with Sweden's Shellback, "Payphone" is lodged at Number One on Top 40 radio and Number Two on Billboard's Hot 100, just one Carly Rae Jepsen phenomenon away from the top slot. The falsetto-bolstered tune is the product of a collaborative session between Blanco and writers Ammar Malik and RoboPop (a.k.a. Daniel Omelio), who constructed a piano line and demo track that Blanco molded into a proper melody, then handed off to Maroon 5 frontman Adam Levine for lyric treatment.

Five minutes before Khalifa arrived at the studio, Blanco laid the sound beds for the finger snap-driven portion of the jam. But Max Martin, who executive produced Maroon 5's latest album Overexposed, wouldn't let the original hook stand. "He was like, 'Yo, this song is so awesome, but the chorus should be a little different,'" Blanco says. "We wound up making it more acoustic sounding and wanted it to have an up-tempo feel, but have it still feel natural."

Blanco is also lending that stripped aesthetic to longtime collaborator Ke$ha for her anticipated new album, due out later this year. Recently, Ke$ha and Blanco hit the studio with producers Dr. Luke and Cirkut to work on a song that he describes as "old hippie rock," co-written with fun. lead singer Nate Ruess. "It's stomps and claps, and the chorus doesn't really have any drums in it, basically. The feeling is so good," says Blanco in his surfer drawl. "And then the verse just pops in, and it's very unexpected and it pops into electronic. So it's rock, it's big electronic breaks and drums."

Though Blanco relishes his solo success, which recently includes winning Songwriter of the Year at the BMI Pop Awards, he'd rather keep his team of pop technicians close. "When you're making music, it's meant to be shared with people. Sometimes, even if I'm writing a song, someone else brings a vibe. There's something different about it," he says. "If someone can play a better bassline than me, I'll let them do it. I'm just here to fit in and see where it goes."

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Feist, Drake, Japandroids Make Polaris Prize Shortlist

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Feist performs during the 2012 Pitchfork Music Festival in Chicago.

The Polaris Awards have announced their shortlist of 10 albums that are up for the 2012 prize, including Drake's Take Care, Feist's Metals, Japandroids' Celebration Rock, Grimes' Visions, and Fucked Up's David Comes to Life. Also included are Handsome Furs' Sound Kapital, Kathleen Edwards' Voyageur, Yamantaka // Sonic Titan's YT // ST, rapper Cadence Weapon's Hope in Dirt City, and Cold Specks' I Predict a Graceful Expulsion.

The final nominees were announced today at the Drake Hotel in Toronto at an event hosted by CBC Radio 3's Craig Norris. Now in its seventh year, the Polaris Music Prize awards $30,000 to the artist responsible for Canadian Album of the Year, which is chosen by a jury of over 200 members of the Candian music media. The other nine nominees receive $2,000 courtesy of Slaight Music. Albums are "judged solely on artistic merit, without consideration of genre or record sales," a statement reads.

Cadence Weapon, Feist, Fucked Up and Kathleen Edwards are the only artists in this year's final 10 who have made the shortlist twice. Cadence Weapon's Breaking Kayfabe was nominated in 2006, Feist's breakout The Reminder was in 2007, Edwards' Asking for Flowers was in 2008 and Fucked Up's The Chemistry of Common Life took home the grand prize in 2009.

Back in June, Polaris announced its long list of nominees. Notable omissions on the shortlist including Leonard Cohen's Old Ideas, The Weeknd's Echoes of Silence and 2007 winner Patrick Watson's Adventures in Your Own Backyard.

This year's winner will be announced at the Polaris gala on September 24th. The event – which will follow the actual voting – will feature performances from the artists on the shortlist and will stream live on Muchmusic.

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Young Woman Collapses and Dies at Vans Warped Tour

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A crowd during the 2012 Vans Warped Tour

A young woman collapsed and died at the Molson Amphitheatre in Toronto during the Vans Warped Tour show yesterday, the Toronto Star reports.

According to EMS officials, the woman was found by other concertgoers lying on the grass and not breathing. A 911 call was made around 12:40 pm and witnesses attempted to revive her through CPR. When paramedics arrived the woman did not have a pulse; she was immediately transported to Toronto Western hospital where, according to police, she was pronounced dead.

Following the woman's collapse, the concert area was cleared and moved towards a covered venue. Attendees were told the move was for weather concerns. No official cause has been given, but as MTV points out, police said it was most likely related to a medical condition.

Concert attendees reportedly started tweeting the woman's identity following the incident, though there has been no official confirmation.

The collapse reportedly occurred during a set by hardcore act Chelsea Grin, who tweeted yesterday: "Our hearts go out to the person who died today. We still don't know everything that happened but it's no time for jokes on our page."

The Vans Warped Tour has yet to release an official statement, though on Sunday the tour wrote on Twitter that details would be forthcoming on vanswarpedtour.com.

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Pop Hitmaker Benny Blanco Talks 'Payphone' Success, Ke$ha's New Sound

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Benny Blanco at the 60th annual BMI Pop Awards in Beverly Hills, California

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Curtis Mayfield Tribute Will Feature the Roots, Sinead O'Connor, TV on the Radio

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After the freak accident that paralyzed him in 1990, the great Curtis Mayfield recorded his last album, 1997's New World Order, with heroic effort: by singing one line at a time while lying on his back.

"You think of Michelangelo in the Sistine Chapel," TV on the Radio's Tunde Adebimpe tell Rolling Stone of the endeavor. "That person is an evolved human being."

Adebimpe will take part the all-star "Here But I'm Gone: A 70th Birthday Tribute to Curtis Mayfield" on Friday alongside the Roots, Aloe Blacc, Sinead O'Connor, Mavis Staples and Mayfield's former band the Impressions at New York's Lincoln Center. The evening marks what would have been the soul king's 70th birthday this June, though Mayfield died in 1999. The event will cover Mayfield's prolific catalog: best known for the classic Super Fly soundtrack (though he wasn't thrilled about working on a "blaxploitation" project), he was an equal master of social awareness ("People Get Ready," "Choice of Colors") and one-on-one sensitivity ("The Makings of You," "Gypsy Woman").

Curtis Mayfield "was an inspiration to me," says TV on the Radio's Kyp Malone, who with his bandmate Adebimpe will perform Mayfield's "Kung Fu" and back O'Connor on her version of "Jesus." He continues, "It's a complicated world, and I don't always want to write about shit that bums me out, but when I do, I don't want to sacrifice musicality." It was Mayfield's gift, he says, to write beautiful songs about hard truths that sometimes aren't pretty.

At Lincoln Center, Aloe Blacc will sing "The Makings of You" and "Back to the World," a message song about the disillusionment of Vietnam-era soldiers coming back to a cold reception in America. "I feel like he was a voice of inspiration to people who didn't feel valued in society with songs like ‘Move On Up,' and he also gave a voice to romance," says the singer.

The house band for the show will be directed by Binky Griptite, who leads Sharon Jones' backing band, the Dap-Kings. After starting out as a funk band, the Dap-Kings became collectively obsessed with Mayfield's lushly orchestrated brand of soul music, which he developed for his first group, the Impressions.

"We'd listen to the Impressions 24 hours a day, the entire catalog," says Griptite, who plays in Mayfield's unorthodox, open F-sharp tuning, which Mayfield taught himself as a boy by tuning to the black keys of a piano. "Those records are just solid tens across the board – incredible songwriting, incredible vocal and band performances. The arrangements are incredible, the recordings are incredible. There's no weakness."

Griptite recently began recording with the surviving Impressions – including longtime members Sam Gooden and Fred Cash, both in their seventies. At a show he arranged for them at the now-defunct Brooklyn club Southpaw, he met a producer for the proposed Lincoln Center tribute, who mentioned that they had a few "missing pieces." "The Impressions and myself turned out to be the missing pieces," he says.

Proceeds from "Here But I'm Gone" will benefit the Curtis Mayfield Foundation, which plans to establish scholarships in the singer's name for Tri-Cities High School, an arts-oriented institution in Atlanta, where the Chicago native and his family made their home in the last years of his life. It is a fitting organization to be connected to the late singer, as his widow, Altheida, tells Rolling Stone. "Curtis never really had that opportunity," she says. "He was literally on his own, kicked out of school in seventh grade and on the road about 11. He always tried to reach back into the inner cities. He went way out of his way to give help."

Mrs. Mayfield says she often meets contemporary artists who tell her how much they admire her husband's music. Kanye West, who has used several of Mayfield's songs as samples, stopped her on the street. She met Andre 3000 in an airport, "and he almost literally got on his knees."

As she reflects, "Curtis was a very humble person. I kind of gathered the impact he was making on the world, but I don't think it ever really hit him that he was touching hearts."

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Steven Van Zandt May Miss Some E Street Band Concerts to Film 'Lilyhammer'

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Steve Van Zandt performs in New Orleans.

E Street Band guitarist Steven Van Zandt may be forced to miss some upcoming gigs to film a second season of his television show, Lilyhammer. "I made commitments before the tour even existed," Van Zandt tells Rolling Stone. "We're still trying to figure it all out, and we won't know for another couple of months. Bruce and [manager] Jon Landau are very, very understanding about this and very supportive of my TV career. They're gonna try and bend things around as much as they can. And then, if they can't, if I gotta miss a few things, I'll miss a few things. We're gonna try not to, though."

Lilyhammer – a Norwegian show about a mobster forced to move to Norway – premiered in Europe in January of 2012. (It became available in America via Netflix the following month.) "It's been a huge, huge success in terms of a European production," Van Zandt says. "It's the first European production of any kind that's ever been aired on American television intact, without being remade. I guess there's been a few from England, like The Avengers or something, though – but it's been amazing to see how big a deal this has become."

The only problem for Van Zandt is that the series premiered months before Springsteen began a long tour with the E Street Band. When Van Zandt was on The Sopranos, the show reduced the onscreen presence of his character, Silvio Dante, during past E Street Band tours – but Lilyhammer stars Van Zandt, eliminating that option.

Van Zandt quit the E Street Band before their 1984 Born in the USA tour and was replaced by Nils Lofgren, who is still with the band and would likely have little trouble carrying the extra weight if need be.

The last Springsteen show formally on the books right now is on September 22nd in East Rutherford, New Jersey, but dates are already beginning to surface for another American leg this fall – and it may even keep going through 2013. "All that stuff is up in the air right now," says Van Zandt. "Until that gets decided and gets announced we can't really figure out what to do." Does Van Zandt hope the tour will continue in 2013? "Personally, I hope so," he says. "I'd like to see it go forever."

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Steven Tyler on Aerosmith's New Album: 'It's the music that's keeping us alive'

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Aerosmith are still going strong after 40 years of rock & roll drama – and now that frontman Steven Tyler has bid farewell to American Idol, he's putting all his energy toward their new album, Music From Another Dimension (due out in November). "It's the music that's keeping us alive," Tyler says. "I've seen a thousand bands go down the drain because they can't stop giving each other the finger and holding resentments," Tyler says. "Now I just look at [guitarist] Joe Perry and say, 'Fuck you about your 'fuck you!'"

Tyler called Rolling Stone's Austin Scaggs in between stops on Aerosmith's Global Warming Tour, which runs through August 12th in Bristow, Virginia. For even more Tyler, check out the latest issue of Rolling Stone, on stands later this week.

You've been playing a new song called "Oh Yeah" on this tour. Tell me about it.
It's a song Joe brought to the table, and it's a fucking classic. He brought it in at the last minute – a couple months ago – so Joe's definitely the employee of the month on the new album. It's got a great rock feel to it, and it works great at the beginning of the show. It's like, "Check this shit out. Here we are. We're back!"

I read that the license plate on your Mercedes says "OH YEAH".
Yeah! So I was surprised when Joe came in with that. But it really sums up what we do for a living. We play songs that make people feel good, that make people think, "Oh, yeah!"

Did everybody bring new songs to the table?
Yeah! The band has really come to the table, and I'm so fucking proud of that. Joe Perry brought astounding stuff. [Drummer] Joey Kramer wrote one. [Guitarist] Brad Whitford plays some fantastic leads. [Bassist] Tom Hamilton wrote a couple of great songs that we put on the album, where in the past his songs have been shunned.

Which is crazy, because he wrote the bass riff to "Sweet Emotion."
That was a magic moment. We were in an apartment in Boston and he just started playing that line and I said "Hold on!" and I just started singing "sweet emotion." The lyric just popped out and it was so cool. The same thing happened with "Janie's Got A Gun." I didn't know who Janie was or why she had a gun, but it was magic.

Whose idea was it to start "Sweet Emotion" with the chorus?
I used to arrange the band's licks and riffs. Starting with the chorus was way different than any other band's ever done, but we did it because it was so much fun singing that "sweet emotion" part.

So is the new album full of rockers?
No. I wrote a song called "Beautiful," and it was looked upon by the other guys as not Aerosmith. It's off the beaten path. But anything that I question these days, I just go, "Fuck it, let's do it." And there's another full-bodied melody song called "It Could Have Been Love." I can't get away from it. My dad went to Juilliard and played a Steinway, and when you've been given the gift of music, you've got to play to your muse. Otherwise it's gonna bite you in the ass. [Laughs]

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No Doubt Convoy Reconvenes for 'Settle Down'

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It's been more than a decade since No Doubt last released an album, but that all changes when Push and Shove drops September 25th. If you can't wait until then, check out the new video for the first single, "Settle Down." In it the members of No Doubt reassemble in the form of a trucking convoy, which meets up to perform the bouncing new cut in the parking lot of the coolest, most rocking truck stop you never stopped at on your family road trips.

Be sure to check out our interview with director Sophie Muller, who explained: "I think (bassist Tony Kanal) came up with the idea that we should do something with trucks . . . The idea is they are all driving to meet after having had their separate lives over the last 10 years."

'Lincoln Continental' by the Felice Brothers - Free MP3

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Artist: The Felice Brothers
Song: "Lincoln Continental"
Album: God Bless You, Amigo

"After much deliberation, we all agreed that we should play more songs along with 'Gulf of Mexico,'" Ian Felice shares with Rolling Stone about the production of God Bless You, Amigo. "We all spit in our hands and shook on it. This material consists of eight traditional folk songs and 12 original songs that we've always liked, but never had a chance to put on records." God Bless You, Amigo will be available for $5 beginning at midnight tonight. For more information and tour dates, visit the band's website.

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Thursday, July 19, 2012

Feist, Drake, Japandroids Make Polaris Prize Shortlist

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Feist performs during the 2012 Pitchfork Music Festival in Chicago.

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Calle 13 Ready to Storm the U.S.

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René Pérez Joglar of the band Calle 13 performs at the 2012 Celebrate Brooklyn festival at Prospect Park Bandshell in New York City on July 13, 2012.

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Pitbull Is Heading to Kodiak, Alaska

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Mr. Worldwide, indeed: Pitbull will fly to Kodiak, Alaska, to visit the small island's Walmart store as part of a competition sponsored by the chain and Listerine. The contest promised that the rapper would appear at whichever Walmart branch got the most likes on Facebook and, early on, it was hijacked by David Thorpe and Jon Hendren of the website Something Awful, who started a campaign to send Pitbull all the way to the Kodiak Walmart. As a result, the store's page netted over 71,000 likes, even though Kodiak's population is just over 6,000 according to the 2010 U.S. census.

Pitbull seems stoked, anyway. "I heard that Kodiak, Alaska, has the most likes due to someone who thinks he was playing a prank," the rapper said in the announcement video. "But you gotta understand, I'll go anywhere in the world for my fans." He even took the opportunity to extend an invitation to the pranksters. Nice work, Internet!

Two Door Cinema Club 'Swallow Up' L.A. Lifestyle for New 'Beacon' Album

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Alex Trimble of Two Door Cinema Club performs live at the Melt! Festival in Ferropolis in Graefenhainichen, Germany on July 14, 2012.Marco Prosch/Redferns via Getty Images

If Two Door Cinema Club's second album, Beacon, due out on September 4th, feels warmer and more upbeat than fans might expect from the Irish band, it's all because of Los Angeles, where they recorded the new LP with producer Jacknife Lee (R.E.M., Silversun Pickups).

"We recorded our first album in London, and this time we just got to drive up PCH [Pacific Coast Highway] and drive by the sea, and it was lovely," bassist Kevin Baird tells Rolling Stone. "We were so much more focused and so much more excited to be in there and doing it."

The band wrote their new tunes in Glasgow before heading out to L.A. to team up with Lee. The shift in scenery ending up changing the new material a bit, according to Baird. "We wrote the record in Glasgow in the winter when it was gray and raining all the time," he explains. "I think for Alex [Trimble], lyrically, he was struggling quite a bit when we were all in Glasgow because it all came back gloomy. That was just the place we were in in our heads at the time." But once they got to L.A., Baird says, "I feel like we totally swallowed up this lifestyle there. We'd put our short shorts on and go for a run along the beach in Venice before we'd head up to the studio. On the weekends, we'd go shoot guns or something. We went out to bars and had our car parked valet, which we've never done before. We just loved it – going to Trader Joe's – we felt so healthy. At the end we were like, 'We wish we could stay here and just keep doing this.'"

All three band members had a big say in the writing of the album, as they lived together in Glasgow while writing the material. "Pretty much 80 percent of the record was written in just three months," he says. "We'd get up, have breakfast, go down to the basement, write songs, see friends – it was really nice to live that normal life again. It was much more like jamming. "

Producer Lee helped shape the inviting sound of Beacon by giving the trio outside ears. "The main thing we've always needed from a producer is a kind of objective viewpoint, because we're so involved in the songs," says Baird.

The band will return to L.A. on October 25th to play the Hollywood Palladium as part of a monthlong tour that will kick off on September 28th at Central Park in support of Beacon. Baird and his bandmates have already previewed a few songs during a string of summer dates, both stateside and abroad, and they've been heartened by the response.

"I think we're actually surprised at how well people are receiving them, because people haven't heard a note of these songs," Baird says. "It's really nice for us to see people take a song at face value and just like it because it's a good song, regardless of whether a radio station has told them to like the song or a magazine has told them. They're just literally hearing something for the very first time and they're dancing and having a very good time. That's the dream, really."

Two Door Cinema Club U.S. tour dates:

9/28 New York, NY - Rumsey Playfield
9/29 Philadelphia, PA - Electric Factory
9/30 Boston, MA - House of Blues
10/2 Washington, D.C. - 9:30 Club
10/5 Toronto, ON - Sound Academy
10/6 Montreal, QC - Metropolis
10/8 Columbus, OH - Newport Music Hall
10/9 Chicago, IL - TBD
10/10 Minneapolis, MN - First Avenue
10/11 Kansas City, MO - Beaumont Club
10/13 Houston, TX - House of Blues
10/14 Austin, TX - Austin City Limits Music Festival
10/16 Denver, CO - Ogden Theatre
10/18 Vancouver, BC - Commodore Ballroom
10/19 Vancouver, BC - Vogue Theatre
10/20 Seattle, WA - TBD
10/21 Portland, OR - Crystal Ballroom
10/23 Oakland, CA - Fox Theatre
10/25 Los Angeles, CA - Hollywood Palladium
10/26 San Diego, CA - Soma
10/ 27 Las Vegas, NV - House of Blues
10/28 Santa Ana, CA - The Observatory

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Charlie Sheen Interested in Becoming Next 'American Idol' Judge

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With Jennifer Lopez and Steven Tyler both leaving the judges' table on American Idol, the search is on for their replacements – and now, add Charlie Sheen to the list of interested candidates. Calling into On Air with Ryan Seacrest today, Sheen chatted with the Idol host about the judge job, noting that producer Nigel Lythgoe had said something about offering Sheen the opportunity.

"It kind of came out of nowhere and I responded with a quote, just to sort of check the temperature of it or test the waters. Haven’t heard anything back," Sheen explained. "I guess it got some people curious."

Sheen added that he would be interested if the producers would match 20 percent of his salary to two foundations of his choosing, if the numbers and scheduling made sense for him and if FX (the network that airs Sheen's new sitcom Anger Management) allowed him to do it.

"It seems so out of the blue that it almost made perfect sense," he said. "I thought this could be a lot of fun."

When Seacrest asked Sheen if he saw himself giving feedback to contestants, the actor responded, "Oh yeah, absolutely! And being very honest but not, like, creating any suicidal moments, you know?"

Seacrest promised to pass the news onto Lythgoe and Sheen added an emphatic, "Seriously, tell him I'm genuinely interested. It’s so different, it could be radical."

In expressing interest in the Idol gig, Sheen joins a club that currently also includes former show runner-up Adam Lambert and the Queen of Soul herself, Aretha Franklin – the latter of whom sweetened the deal when she promised to bring Patti LaBelle on as her sidekick.

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Katy Perry Gets Fantastical in 'Wide Awake'

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If you're looking for a taste of the fantastical today, look no further than Katy Perry's new video for "Wide Awake." The clip kicks off with her dressing room morphing into a massive maze that she traverses until stumbling across an adorable young accomplice. The dynamic duo battle paparazzi, defeat minotaur-like orderlies and punch Prince Charming in his stupid face, all in the name of restoring beauty to a dreary world.

First Details of Bob Dylan's Upcoming Album 'Tempest'

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Bob Dylan has revealed more information about his upcoming album Tempest, including cover art and the track listing. It's his 35th studio album.

The album contains 10 songs, including a John Lennon tribute entitled "Roll on John," which quotes lines from multiple Beatles songs, including "Come together right now" from "Come Together" and "I heard the news today, oh boy" from "A Day in the Life." The title track is a 14-minute epic about the sinking of the Titanic, which actually refers to a scene from James Cameron's 1997 film Titanic at one point. The chorus of another standout track, "Pay in Blood," includes the line, "I'll pay in blood, but not my own."

Tempest arrives in stores on September 11th, 11 years to the day after the release of Dylan's 2001, LP Love and Theft.

Here is the full track listing for Tempest:

"Duquesne Whistle"
"Soon After Midnight"
"Narrow Way"
"Long and Wasted Years"
"Pay in Blood"
"Scarlet Town"
"Early Roman Kings"
"Tin Angel"
"Tempest"
"Roll on John"

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Elton John Regrets Past Drug Use

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Elton John performs in Oberhausen, Germany.Peter Wafzig/Redferns via Getty Images

Elton John has revealed he "wasted" a big part of his life using drugs in an interview regarding the musician's upcoming memoir, Love Is the Cure: On Life, Loss and the End of AIDS.

"I was a drug addict and self-absorbed," said John, who explained this was in the early Eighties, around the same time the AIDS epidemic was starting. "You know, I was having people die right, left and center around me, friends. And yet I didn't stop the life that I had, which is the terrible thing about addiction. It's that – you know, it's that bad of a disease."

During the interview, John also talked about how his lifestyle at the time made him feel unafraid of the growing AIDS epidemic: "When you take a drug and you take a drink and you mix those two together, you think you're invincible," the musician said. "I came out of this HIV-negative. I was the luckiest man in the world."

In the book, John writes, "I was consumed by cocaine, booze, and who knows what else. I apparently never got the memo that the Me generation had ended."

Though John admitted he felt some guilt about that period in his life, he added, "I'm making up for it. There is so much more to be done."

Ever the humanitarian, proceeds from sales of John's memoir will go to the Elton John AIDS Foundation. On September 21st he will headline an event at London's Wembley Arena that benefits the charity Peace One Day and promotes the Global Truce 2012 campaign, which hopes to "create the largest global reduction of violence ever recorded on one day."

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Funk Brothers Bassist Bob Babbitt Dead at 74

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Uriel Jones, Eddie Willis, and Bob Babbitt of The Funk Brothers

Bob Babbitt, the Motown studio bassist who played on hits including Smokey Robinson & the Miracles' "Tears of a Clown" and the Temptations' "Ball of Confusion," died yesterday in Nashville after suffering complications from brain cancer, his spokesperson confirmed to Rolling Stone. He was 74.

Born on November 26th, 1937, Babbitt grew up in Pittsburgh before moving to Detroit, where he began playing bass in the late Fifties. He joined Stevie Wonder’s touring band in 1966. One year later, Babbitt was invited to join Motown’s house band the Funk Brothers, after Motown bassist James Jamerson broke his hand. In his new role, Babbitt added thick, funky basslines to hits by the Jackson Five, Stevie Wonder’s "Sign, Sealed, Delivered (I'm Yours)" and "We Can Work it Out," and half of Marvin Gaye's 1971 LP, What's Going On.

After leaving Motown in 1972, Babbitt recorded with a diverse group of acts, including Bette Midler, Bonnie Raitt and Frank Sinatra. He scored 25 gold and platinum records in his career and played on more than 200 Top 40 hits, ranging from Gladys Knight and the Pips' "Midnight Train to Georgia" to Elton John's Mama Can't Buy You Love."

More recently, Babbitt was presented with a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in 2004, and he played on Phil Collins' 2010 album, Going Back.

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Song Premiere: Patterson Hood, 'Come Back Little Star'

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Patterson Hood teamed up with friend Kelly Hogan for "Come Back Little Star," the lead single from the Drive-By Truckers frontman's solo album Heat Lightning Rumbles in the Distance.

"She began the lyrics as a song for our late, dear friend Vic Chesnutt, and I rewrote it with the intention of her recording it for her album," Hood tells Rolling Stone. "She ended up letting me put it on my album and it's a highlight to me."

Hood says he was thrilled to work with Hogan. "I've only done a little bit of co-writing, but I was crazy about our collaboration as I felt it took both of us places we hadn't gone. We recorded this one with Jay [Gonzalez] on grand piano and my dad on bass. [John] Neff's pedal steel does a call-and-response with our strings [Jacob Morris on cello and Scott Danbom on fiddle]. Hogan's gorgeous harmony took it all to the next level. It may be my favorite song I've ever recorded."

Hood is playing solo shows this summer, including dates with the Drive-By Truckers, and he will join Craig Finn and Will Johnson for a European tour in November. Heat Lightning Rumbles in the Distance hits stores on September 11th.

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Inside Justin Bieber's Rolling Stone Cover Shoot

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Justin Bieber was in full heartthrob mode when he met up with photographer Mark Seliger in Malibu to shoot his new Rolling Stone cover, on newsstands Friday, July 20th. In this behind-the-scenes footage from the shoot, the 18-year-old enjoys the California sun and goofs around with Seliger.

It's Bieber's second time on the cover of Rolling Stone – he first graced the cover in 2011. The year since has been a busy one for Bieber, whose new LP Believe scored the best debut week of any album released in 2012 so far, selling 374,000 copies. This fall, he'll hit the road for a massive arena tour with opener and protégé, Carly Rae Jepsen. Not to mention, he just graduated high school.

Come back to RollingStone.com tomorrow for more from Justin Bieber's new Rolling Stone cover.

Funk Brothers Bassist Bob Babbitt Dead at 74

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Uriel Jones, Eddie Willis, and Bob Babbitt of The Funk Brothers

More recently, Babbitt was presented with a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in 2004, and he played on Phil Collins' 2010 album, Going Back.

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'Lincoln Continental' by the Felice Brothers - Free MP3

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Artist: The Felice Brothers
Song: "Lincoln Continental"
Album: God Bless You, Amigo

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Katy Perry Gets Fantastical in 'Wide Awake'

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Elton John Regrets Past Drug Use

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Elton John performs in Oberhausen, Germany.Peter Wafzig/Redferns via Getty Images

Elton John has revealed he "wasted" a big part of his life using drugs in an interview regarding the musician's upcoming memoir, Love Is the Cure: On Life, Loss and the End of AIDS.

In the book, John writes, "I was consumed by cocaine, booze, and who knows what else. I apparently never got the memo that the Me generation had ended."

Though John admitted he felt some guilt about that period in his life, he added, "I'm making up for it. There is so much more to be done."

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My Morning Jacket Take Over Hometown Forecastle Festival in Louisville

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My Morning Jacket performs at Forecastle Festival in Louisville, Kentucky.

Last week, as they boarded a tiny plane from New York to Louisville, Kentucky, several guys wearing My Morning Jacket t-shirts found one another. Show counts were exchanged; one fan was nearing 50. Five minutes later, the scene repeated itself, only this time with a group sporting Wilco t-shirts. There was little doubt as to where they were headed.

This weekend, Louisville and My Morning Jacket played host to the 10th incarnation of the Forecastle Festival, which was held on Louisville's waterfront flanking the Ohio River and expected to draw roughly 35,000 attendees. MMJ's curation – they hand-selected a portion of the lineup and gave input on festival amenities – was one of this year's several upgrades to the festival, which recently joined forced with Bonnaroo and Moogfest producer AC Entertainment in hopes of expanding from a regional fest to a tourist event.

For its pivotal year, Forecastle chose wisely in terms of headliners: My Morning Jacket, Wilco and Bassnectar, all of whom have dedicated fans willing to travel for their shows. The dance artist Bassnectar, while not as high-profile in the EDM scene as Skrillex or Deadmau5, got kids in DayGlo clothes and body glitter bugging out of their minds so intensely on Friday night that photographers had little interest in capturing any other set. Not far away, Flying Lotus played under a highway to a small crowd, yet another of the many EDM options for a seemingly rock-centric festival. In fact, nearly 30 percent of the festival's lineup was dedicated to electronic artists, and Forecastle founder J.K. McKnight envisions it reaching half in future years.

The main attraction for most was Louisville's own My Morning Jacket, who played into the wee hours of Sunday morning in one of the largest hometown shows in their career. The nearly three-hour set was not focused on the band's latest album, 2011's Circuital; variety was key throughout the ferocious set, which featured an array of MMJ gems through the years ("The Bear," "Run Thru," "I'm Amazed"), special guests (Preservation Hall Jazz Band and Andrew Bird, who played with his band right before MMJ), and covers of Elton John's "Rocket Man," the Band's "It Makes No Difference" and George Harrison's "Isn't It a Pity." But it was a more unexpected cover – George Michael's "Careless Whisper" – that stole the show, from the opening notes of its sultry sax to James' vamping about Michael. "George Michael's a fucking genius, but he gets a lot of shit," James declared just before imitating the British singer in his Kentucky accent. The party continued offsite shortly after the band closed their set with "One Big Holiday" – James boarded an old steamboat just down the Ohio River, working his mystery with the Preservation Hall Jazz Band to a crowd of 1,000, a change of scene from the glowstick-hurling obsessives he had just faced.

The crowd at Wilco's 90-minute set on Sunday night was a bit less intense than MMJ's legion. Looking a little like Neil Young, frontman Jeff Tweedy was in a less chatty mood than usual, keeping stage banter to one marriage joke and a birthday sing-along for Woody Guthrie's 100th. The set was as much focused on Wilco's seminal Yankee Hotel Foxtrot as it was about 2011's The Whole Love, with favorites like "Heavy Metal Drummer" and "I Am Trying to Break Your Heart" inspiring guitar spazzery from Nels Cline and hearty sing-alongs from the audience.

Neko Case warmed up the Wilco crowd, playing old favorites and upbeat tracks from a new album that she promised would be released soon. Case is verbose – that much, fans know from her Twitter – but she was in rare form on Sunday, "hallucinating" from the heat and chronicling her butt sweat. Her back-and-forth banter with backing vocalist Kelly Hogan, who played a solo set earlier in the day, is the stuff of comedy routines, or at least an episode of Gilmore Girls.

While Case and other artists commented on the heat, it was a welcome change from the rain that forced Forecastle to push back its opening and condense set times on Saturday. After the weather cleared, indie rockers Real Estate attempted to start a beach party during their afternoon set of sunny pop, asking the crowd to go wild with beach balls (some of which came hurling at band members). Real Estate was one act that also performed at this weekend's Pitchfork Music Festival Chicago; others included the Friday night crowd-pleasers Sleigh Bells. Forecastle's McKnight told Rolling Stone that Pitchfork organizers actually aided in routing bands toward Louisville, just 300 miles down the road. It was an advantageous move for all; from Beach House's stunning sunset show on Friday to Lower Dens' Sunday afternoon drone session in the sizzling sun, the Pitchfork constituency – and all festivalgoers at Forecastle – had plenty of options.

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Steven Van Zandt May Miss Some E Street Band Concerts to Film 'Lilyhammer'

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Steve Van Zandt performs in New Orleans.

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Inside Justin Bieber's Rolling Stone Cover Shoot

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Pitbull Is Heading to Kodiak, Alaska

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Death Cab's Ben Gibbard Announces First Solo Album

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Ben Gibbard performs during the 2012 Bunbury Music Festival in Cincinnati, Ohio.

Ben Gibbard is set to release his first solo album, Former Lives, on October 15th in the U.K./Europe and on October 16th in the States through the indie label Barsuk.

According to a statement, the 12 tracks that comprise the record were written during the past eight years, but the Death Cab for Cutie frontman didn't fully realize them until he moved from his hometown, Seattle, to Los Angeles. The album was recorded at the Ship, the studio owned by Gibbard's longtime friend, Earlimart frontman Aaron Espinoza.

Gibbard will play a handful of dates in support of Former Lives after its release this fall. No word yet on when a first single will drop.

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Wednesday, July 18, 2012

Bob Dylan's New Album, 'Tempest,' Hits Stores on September 11th

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Bob Dylan performs during the Hop Farm Festival in Paddock Wood, United Kingdom.Gus Stewart/Redferns via Getty Images

After months of rumors, Columbia Records has announced that Bob Dylan's new studio album will be released on September 11th, 2012. The set, called Tempest, was produced by Dylan himself under the pseudonym Jack Frost. A press release has very little information, but it does say the disc contains 10 original songs. It's unclear what the title of the disc refers to, but it is worth nothing that The Tempest is the title of Shakespeare's final play.

News of Dylan's new disc first hit back in March when Los Lobos guitarist David Hidalgo (who played on Dylan's 2009 disc Together Through Life) told the Aspen Times he had been recording with Dylan at Jackson Browne's studio in California. "It was a great experience," Hidalgo said. "And different. Each one has been different, all completely different approaches. It's an amazing thing, how he keeps creativity. I don't see how he does it."

Dylan wraps up his European summer tour on July 22nd and heads to North America for a month of dates beginning August 10th in Lloydminster, Alberta. That leg will finish in Hershey, Pennsylvania on September 9th (two days before Tempest hits stores), but there are rumors he will launch another tour in November with special guest Mark Knopfler.

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'Naked & Dumb' by The Royal Concept - Free MP3

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Artist: The Royal Concept
Song: "Naked & Dumb"
Album: The Royal Concept EP

"Lyrically, 'Naked & Dumb' is about a stripper girl in a notorious club, who had a crush on [The Royal Concept singer] David and couldn't let him go, and created a lot of drama. She stalked him for some time. I had waited for a song with enough syllables so I could describe their relationship in detail," The Royal Concept's Filip Bekic explains.

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Steven Tyler on Aerosmith's New Album: 'It's the music that's keeping us alive'

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Bob Dylan's New Album, 'Tempest,' Hits Stores on September 11th

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Bob Dylan performs during the Hop Farm Festival in Paddock Wood, United Kingdom.Gus Stewart/Redferns via Getty Images

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