Our recent interview with Peter Gabriel was more than just
the Genesis
Inquisition. During the course of a 40-minute chat, we touched upon
everything from Bruce Springsteen to the overuse of "Solsbury Hill" in movie
trailers. We also talked about his long-awaited studio album I/O, which
is fast becoming the Chinese Democracy of Peter Gabriel albums. But we
started off with New Blood, his new CD where he re-recorded
songs from his back catalog with an orchestra. 

Can you explain how New Blood came out of your Scratch My Back
covers project?
When we brought Scratch My Back on the
road we wanted to have two hours of music and I only had one hour with
Scratch, so we started working up my own stuff. It was opening up
something and I wanted to explore it a bit more. I was really pleased with the
Scratch My Back portion of the show, but people seemed to really like
the second half better. I was really enjoying it too. I felt that we were
discovering something special. It wasn't just an orchestral

Talib Kweli arrived at the Occupy Wall
Street demonstration at New York's Liberty Plaza last night and
immediately took to Twitter: "Now this is the New York City I love," he wrote.
And indeed, this was a New York City that loved him as well. Kweli
spent the evening exploring the premises and learning about the cause,
and before he left for the night, he delivered an inspired a cappella
performance that emphasized love and community.

"I couldn't come back to my home town and not check this out," Kweli told Rolling Stone
before his performance (watch video below), standing before a scattered
collection of protest signs lying on the ground. "I didn't realize that
this was something that was meant to last, with no end. It's
self-sufficient and is connecting people to people. It's beautiful."

CitizenRadio, a
politically oriented podcast by comic Jamie Kilstein and journalist
Allison Kilkenny, was responsible for Kweli's presence on the grounds.
The three had become friends after Kweli

While President Obama has pointed out
that "much of the world learned of his passing on a device he
invented," it's easy to forget that Apple founder Steve Jobs' impact on
our daily lives goes much deeper than that - before putting computers in
our hands via mobile phones and portable devices, Jobs first put
computers in our homes. It was under his vision that Apple ushered in
the first era of the personal computer and desktop publishing in the
late 1970s. His products, concepts, designs and overall philosophy have
been, and will continue to be, hugely influential. And perhaps it is
because of the way he personally put himself inside of each of his
creations that his death has touched so many, so deeply. 

Indeed, with much of the nation's attention wrapped up in protests
against corporate greed on Wall Street, the death of a CEO of a
particularly large corporation - one that temporarily surpassed Exxon
Mobile as the world's most valuable company earlier this year - inspired

"I like to say this is the first new Doors track of the 21st century," Ray Manzarek tells Rolling Stone
of a new song he's recorded with Robby Krieger and John Densmore, as
well as popular DJ/producer Skrillex (Sonny Moore). The recording
session and song are part of a new documentary film, RE:GENERATION,
that recruited five popular DJs/producers to work with artists from
five separate genres and had them record new music. You can get a small
glimpse of the results for the first time in this exclusive world
premiere of the trailer below.

In addition to Skrillex, the project, co-produced by the Grammys and directed by Amir Bar Lev (The Pat Tillman Story, My Child Can Paint That),
brought in DJ Premier to produce a classical track with Nas and the
Berklee School of Music Orchestra; Pretty Lights, who did a country song
with Leann Rimes and Ralph Stanley; the Crystal Method, who headed to
Detroit to spend two days recording a R&B tune with Martha Reeves;
and Mark Ronson, who teamed