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New Music Report: U2, Clem Snide, Plus Top Stories

2/25/09, 12:28 pm EST

In this week’s New Music Report, Rolling Stone visits the set of NBC’s Late Night and touches base with new host Jimmy Fallon and his house band, Grammy-award-winning hip-hop polyglots the Roots, before they take to the airwaves on Monday. Drummer ?uestlove weighs in on how their incendiary, police-state criticizing “Here I Come” (from their 2006 album Game Theory) became the unlikely theme song of the late night comedy show.

In reviews, U2’s 11th album No Line On The Horizon garnered five stars from Rolling Stone’s David Fricke. “U2’s first album in nearly five years,” writes Fricke is “their best, in its textural exploration and tenacious melodic grip, since 1991’s Achtung Baby.”

Clem Snide, one of indie rock’s best kept secrets, got only three stars from Rolling Stone for their latest, Hungry Bird, but writer Will Hermes says, “The melodies and arrangements, spiked with trombone and banjo, are simultaneously edgy and refined.”

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