Rolling Stone's New Year's Eve Concert Pass

This New Year's weekend, Rolling Stone is teaming up with iClips to stream performances by the Flaming Lips, Drive-By Truckers and Gogol Bordello.

The Lips kick things off on December 31 with a New Years Eve "freakout" that will include a full-album performance of the band's 1999 fan favorite The Soft Bulletin. Then on New Year's Day,  Rolling Stone will re-broadcast the Drive-By Truckers New Years show before streaming the Gogol Bordello show, live from Terminal 5 in NYC.

FULL SCHEDULE

Fri 12/31/10
10 pm EST - The Flaming Lips (LIVE)

Sat 1/1/11
5 pm EST - Drive-By Truckers (pre-recorded)
9 pm EST - Gogol Bordello (LIVE)

Sun 1/2/11
9 PM EST - The Flaming Lips  (pre-recorded)

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Song Stories

“The A Team”

Ed Sheeran | 2011

This debut track from the then-20-year-old British singer-songwriter has a dark story behind it. Sheeran says he culls songwriting inspiration from "viewing other people's situations," which, for the heroine in "The A Team," involves drug addiction and prostitution that began as a teen. Sheeran paints the woman's trials with haunting imagery such as "But lately her face seems/Slowly sinking, wasting/Crumbling like pastries." "I did a gig at a homeless shelter, [and the song] is about one of the women there. It's her story," he said.

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