News Ticker: DMX, Lady Gaga, Stars, The Doors

• DMX was arrested for violating the terms of his probation, admitting he'd used cocaine over the last nine months, Reuters reports. The rapper is currently in a Phoenix jail.

   

   

• Lady Gaga is coming to Rock Band: the pop star's first track pack includes "Bad Romance," "Just Dance," "Monster" and "Poker Face" — and as a special bonus, the version of "Poker Face" Eric Cartman made famous on South Park will also be up for sale in the game's Music Store next week.

   

   

• Canadian rockers Stars will return with their fifth album, The Five Ghosts, on June 22nd. The band will perform the new disc in its entirety during a U.S. tour this summer.

   

   

• The soundtrack to the Doors documentary When You're Strange, due April 6th, will include Jim Morrison's poetry as read by Johnny Depp, who narrates the film. Rhino will also reissue the band's Absolutely Live and Live in New York as 180-gram double-album sets on March 16th.

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  TV Why You Should Watch 'Happy Endings'
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  POLITICS No Price Big Banks Can't Fix

Song Stories

“All Along the Watchtower”

The Jimi Hendrix Experience | 1968

Jimi Hendrix got hold of Bob Dylan's early John Wesley Harding tapes and in late 1967 recorded a version of "All Along the Watchtower" with the Experience in London. Dissatisfied with that first development, Hendrix brought those tapes with him to New York in early 1968 when he began work on Electric Ladyland. Eddie Kramer, Hendrix's engineer at the time, told Rolling Stone that Hendrix "was still looked upon by his basically white audience as the mammoth black guitar hero. There was a constant fight within him to expand himself." Hendrix's successful take on Dylan's work has long been recognized by the songwriter. "I liked Jimi Hendrix's record of this and ever since he died I've been doing it that way," Dylan wrote in the liner notes to his Biograph box set. "Strange how when I sing it, I always feel it's a tribute to him in some kind of way."

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