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Satellite radio company Sirius XM added 171,000 new listeners in the first quarter of 2010, according to the Hollywood Reporter, bringing its grand total to 18.9 million subscribers.

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Band of Horses have unveiled a new video for "Laredo," off their May 18th album Infinite Arms. Watch it after the jump.

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Song Stories

“Oh Sherrie”

Steve Perry | 1984

Steve Perry's girlfriend Sherrie Swafford was actually in the studio when Perry began writing this song--his lone Top Ten hit as a solo act--with two co-writers. The trio began at midnight one night with just "Oh, Sherrie!" and "hold on, hold on." Three hours later, they had a complete song. Swafford, however, had to wait until the next day to hear it. "Sherrie actually got tired and went to bed," Perry said. She also appeared in the video, but their relationship did not hold on for long.

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