Peter Gabriel's first album in seven years is a Bob Ezrin-produced orchestral covers collection called Scratch My Back. It reportedly features reinterpretations of the folks mentioned above along with Elbow, the Kinks, Talking Heads, Lou Reed, David Bowie, and Neil Young. It's being called a "song swap," which implies some artists will also cove...

Reuters - Having suffered more than 15 years of false starts, failures and musical disappointments, singer-songwriter Harper Simon admits he has hardly charted the ideal path to pop stardom like his father, Paul Simon.

The 2010 Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame nominees are here and progressive rock has finally been shown some respect via a nod to Genesis. (NCIS spinoffs have also been shown respect via an LL Cool J nod.) The other first-time nominees are Red Hot Chili Peppers, Jiffy Cliff, the Hollies, and finally KISS. The returning nominees -- ABBA, the Chantels...

They performed it on Late Night With Jimmy Fallon, so the One-Trick Pony track has something conceptual to its joyful, horn-lined lilt. Even if Fallon's jokes don't always work, his sound people generally do, and it's not surprising the Roots handle the instrumentation tightly and with swing (hello, summer). For his part, Simon looks fairly stok...

Reuters - A number of Western musicians, most famously Paul Simon, David Byrne and Peter Gabriel, have embraced what is sometimes called world beat, a one-size-fits-all label that accommodates Latin, African, Arabic and even Appalachian genres. No one seems better suited to the task than Bela Fleck.