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  • It didn't take much to get actor Jonah Hill to agree to direct Sara Bareilles' forthcoming video for "Gonna Get Over You," which will be released sometime in the next few weeks. 

    "We've known each other for a long time, and he wanted to foray into this world. I'm like, 'Um, yes please, do my video,'" Bareilles told Rolling Stone at the East Los Angeles supermarket where they were filming the video she describes as a "mish-mash of Grease and West Side Story."

    Bareilles had no problem breaking her famous friend into the music video game. "There's something really special about being someone's first, like he's a video virgin," she said. "I feel like I'm in new territory as well because I'm dancing for the first time, it's a totally different thing I've ever done."

    Hill was inspired by Spike Jonze, whom he calls a hero and a friend. "His videos have informed a lot of the way I think visually, and music video direction is something I think will help make me a better director," he said.

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  • Former Skid Row frontman Sebastian Bach has lost his home in New Jersey as a result of flooding from Hurricane Irene this weekend. The rocker's Lincroft, NJ house was knocked off its foundation after surging waters from Irene snapped a nearby bridge, which tumbled into the singer's garage.

    The singer's basement was completely flooded, resulting in the destruction of irreplaceable Skid Row master tapes and live recordings, as well as his extensive collection of Kiss and Skid Row memorabilia. Luckily for Bach, his comic book collection and his father's artwork were safe on a higher level of his house. Bach plans to salvage what he can from the house before having it destroyed.

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    "I have been holding on to my house since December, when my divorce papers were filed," Bach wrote in a message to friends and fans on Facebook. "I just could not let go of the only home I had ever known. Well, God has other plans for me it seems. He has made His decision for me. My home has

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  • "Working in a band is a lot like what I imagine making movies is like," says Lindsey Buckingham. "It's political and it takes a lot of verbalization to get from point A to point B. When I work alone, it's more like painting. You are one with the canvas and it's a subconscious, meditative process."

    Recording his new disc Seeds We Sow (out September 6th on his own label) in his home studio, Buckingham really worked alone: producing, engineering, singing and playing nearly every instrument. "Most days I'd wake up, have my coffee, do my crossword puzzle and get there by 10:30 a.m.," he tells Rolling Stone. "And work through dinnertime. I didn't come up for air unless I had to."

    Buckingham says that he didn't begin consciously writing the songs on Seeds We Sow with any sort of a theme in mind, but when he finished the disc he discovered a common thread running through his lyrics. "The songs are all about the accumulation of choices that we make everyday and the karmic part of that - which

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  • Click to listen to thenewno2's 'Live A Lie'

    Last year, Dhani Harrison focused his attention on his supergroup Fistful of Mercy - which also featured Ben Harper and Joseph Arthur. With that project on break, Harrison has returned to his band thenewno2. The group's new EP EP002 is coming out on September 27th, but you can get an exclusive download of the track "Live A Lie" here, which features a guest appearance by Regina Spektor. RZA also guests on another song on the EP. "Regina is a good pal," says Harrison. "RZA too. We have had  loads of time hanging out talking about stuff. We just finally got around to [recording together.] I deeply enjoy playing with both of them."

    Thenewno2 plan to release their second album sometime next year. "It's nearly done," says Harrison. "We stopped to finish the EP, but we are pretty much there. It's looking like a record." 

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