SPIN's Liner Notes event, held last week in NYC, found San Francisco-based prog rock quartet Dredg joining their literary muse -- famed author Salman Rushdie (Shame, The Satanic Verses) -- onstage for a unique evening of music and literature.

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Neil Diamond covers Adam Sandler's "Chanukah Song" on his upcoming Christmas album. Let's pray "Lunchlady Land" is the B-side. [Spinner]

Vampires and werewolves and lusty glares from Robert Pattinson aren't the only things fans can't wait to ravish in the upcoming Twilight saga, New Moon. Monday night in Chicago, Grizzly Bear invited Beach House singer Victoria Legrand onstage to perform "Slow Life," their contribution to the star-studded New Moon soundtrack, for a lucky crowd.

What do you get when you take an electro-rock sextet from Edmonton, Alberta, and add a twenty-four-year-old rapper who has been called Canada's Dizzee Rascal? Flames!

"Coming Home," the seven-minute track from the Shout Out Out Out Out's second album, Reintegration Time, showcases Cadence Weapon (aka Rollie Pemberton) rapping about facing one's demons.

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