Tom Meighan also gives NME.COM an update on the Leicester band's new album

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On March 23rd, NYC’s Irving Plaza hosted a Doctors Without Borders benefit concert to raise funds for victims of the earthquakes in Haiti and Chile. Regina played there, and today doubles down on her relief efforts by releasing this cover of Radiohead’s OK Computer wishful thinker “No Surprises,” blogging ...

Peter Gabriel recorded “My Body Is A Cage,” now he wants a little reciprocation. “Games Without Frontiers” is from Gabriel’s 1980 self-titled album. No firm release date yet for this companion album to Scratch My Back (in fact, Regina Spektor is still choosing her cover), but there are some new d...

This past Friday we sent Dominick Mastrangelo to the 20th Annual Tibet House Benefit at Carnegie Hall. The lineup included longtime legends (Iggy Pop, Patti Smith, the concert’s Artistic Director Philip Glass) mixing it up with younger folks (Regina Spektor, Gogol Bordello, and the very young Tenzin Kunsel) and folks you might not have...