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Jimmy Fallon and the cast of Glee, who covered "Born to Run" during the Emmys' opening skit, have company: Vampire Weekend took on the Born in the U.S.A. track "I'm Goin' Down" at a concert in Vancouver, while Eddie Vedder offered a faithful take on Nebraska's "Open All Night" at the Free the West Memphis Three benefit gig in Little Rock, Arkansas. Watch Vedder above and Vampire Weekend on YouTube.

Vedder, Patti Smith and Johnny Depp: "Dancing Barefoot"
The Free the West Memphis Three benefit show also featured the unlikely pairing of Vedder, Patti Smith and actor Johnny Depp for a performance of Smith's "Dancing Barefoot." The trio were later joined by the new group Fistful of Mercy and the Dixie Chicks' Natalie Maines for "People Have the Power." [ Billboard ]

Lady Gaga: "Living on the Radio"
Lady Gaga debuted a new piano ballad, "Living on the Radio," last night during her concert at Minneapolis, Minnesota's Xcel Energy. Gaga told the crowd it was unlikely the song would appear on her follow-up to The Fame. Gaga also premiered "You and I" on this leg of the Monster Ball tour. [YouTube]

Trent Reznor: Social Network Score Preview
A new site for the upcoming Facebook flick The Social Network was launched yesterday, and with it the first song from Trent Reznor's score. [ The Social Network ]

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“The Everchanging Spectrum of a Lie”

The Joy Formidable | 2011

The opener off the Welsh group’s The Big Roar album was an epic one, but the band was worried that track had polarized fans. “The first song is eight minutes long,” Rhydian Dafydd, the Joy Formidable bassist, said. “If you did that in the Seventies people would be, ‘Whatever.’ You do it now, people think, ‘Holy s---!’ Some people think it’s the f---ing greatest track on the entire album, and some people think it’s f---ing boring. It’s that element of needing to challenge people.” The band concluded through the song’s lyrics that love was the “everchanging spectrum of a lie.”

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