New Music and Videos: Soundgarden, Cee-lo, Trent Reznor

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Soundgarden: "Black Rain" Video
In a battle over a future Seattle, an animated Soundgarden fight alien spaceships and translucent monsters. For this, we have Metalocalypse director Brendon Small, who helmed the video, to thank. [Spinner]

Cee-Lo: "I Want You"
This romantic new cut off The Lady Killer stands in stark contrast to Cee-Lo's viral sensation "Fuck You." [We All Want Someone to Shout For]

Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross: Five Songs from The Social Network Score
Trent Reznor and his frequent collaborator Atticus Ross have posted a free download of five tracks from their score for David Fincher's The Social Network. The entire score will go on sale for $2.99 exclusively at the Amazon MP3 store on September 30th, with a CD release planned for later in the year. [Null Co.]

Neil Young: "Hitchhiker" Video
Earlier this week, Neil Young premiered the black-and-white video for his Le Noise song "Angry Young Man." Like that one, the "Hitchhiker" video shows Young, guitar in hand, rocking out alone in a mansion as images are projected on the ceiling above. [Stereogum]

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Song Stories

“He Will Break Your Heart”

Jerry Butler | 1960

A lightly swinging Latin-influenced, almost cha-cha groove and close harmonies decorated Jerry Butler's early soul hit "He Will Break Your Heart," delivering a stately warning that his rival would never love his girl like he did. The melody came to Butler as he was driving on the highway from Atlantic City, New Jersey, to Philadelphia with Curtis Mayfield, and as Butler told Rolling Stone, "I just sang the melody and Curtis put the chords to it." The song's premise, Butler added, "was something that I'd lived ...The lyric was an experience rather than a revelation. Whereas music is usually a revelation."

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