Quick Music News
The National Writing For New Album
The National is "pretty far into the process of writing" its next album, which the band will record starting in April in group member Aaron Dessner's new home studio in Brooklyn's Ditmas Park neighborhood.

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Stooges Guitarist Ron Asheton Dead At 60
Stooges guitarist Ron Asheton was found dead this morning at his home in Ann Arbor, Mich., according to local police. He was 60. There was no sign of foul play or drug use; police estimate Asheton died on New Year's Eve or New Year's Day.

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Features
The word "chanteuse" may have been coined for Canada's Krall, who has emerged as one of the preeminent jazz voices of our era--mostly by her mastery of a bygone one. On "The Very Best," the singer slinks and sashays through more than a decade's worth of reinvigorated standards.
Seventies rock-inspired ladies' man Josh Rouse found a few minutes out of his busy tour schedule to stop by Studio C. He treated us to solo acoustic versions of "Hollywood Bass Player" and "Sweetie" from his latest album, Country Mouse City House.
While some guys try to impress girls with lines like "I didn't know angels flew so low," James Blunt simply sings "you're beautiful." That genius pick-up line scored him supermodel Petra Nemcova and turned him into a rock star overnight. His latest, "All the Lost Souls," continues with the romance.
Before Pink Floyd became '70s prog-rock heroes, they were Swingin' London's most interesting psychedelic pop group. Newly reissued with a CD of bonus tracks, the Syd Barrett-led "Piper," their debut, still stuns like it did then: as the most darkly grown-up children's lullabies anyone's ever heard.
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