Exclusive Download: Brendan Benson's Break-Up Rocker
When Raconteurs co-frontman Brendan Benson isn't onstage rocking out with Jack White, the Detroit native is busy with another one of his fave pastimes -- gardening!
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Exclusive Video: Hot New Singer Anya Marina Performs!
Singer/songwriter, radio DJ, and SPIN Breaking Out alum Anya Marina just dropped her sophomore album, Slow & Steady Seduction: Phase II. You may have heard its first single, "Move You," on an episode of Grey's Anatomy -- but below you can watch Marina perform the song exclusively for SPIN.com!
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New Tune: Say Anything's Max Bemis Talks
Say Anything's Max Bemis and Saves the Day's Chris Conley have combined their songwriting powers as Two Tongues. Their self-titled debut album just dropped via Vagrant -- and you can hear one its best tracks, "If I Could Make You Do Things," right here on SPIN.com!
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A.C. Newman Rides Submarine in Sweden
New Pornographers leader A.C. Newman released his second solo album, Get Guilty, last week. One its best tracks is "Submarines of Stockholm" (below), a power-pop number about a disorenting trip to Sweden. He explains:
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Stephen Malkmus on Pavement's "Funky" Tune
Witty and blithe, Stephen Malkmus' jester-of-the-MTV-age lyricism has been as vital to Pavement's music as the lo-fi guitars and catchy alt-pop structures. And nowhere have these assets been as freeform as on "Stereo," the opening track off their reissued 1997 album Brighten the Corners.
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Ben Kweller on New Song's "Cocaine Vibe"
Changing Horses, Ben Kweller's country-leaning new album, arrives Feb. 3 via ATO Records. One of its best songs is "Sawdust Man," a slow groove with slide banjo and saloon-like piano, which Kweller describes to SPIN.com as having a "'70s, Leon Russell cocaine vibe."




