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Last night our old friend/life champion Peter Gabriel turned up at the Ed Sullivan theater with a black-clad orchestra. Peter's promoting his symphonic LP New Blood, a sequel/extension of last year's…   Read Story »
Peter Gabriel toured with an 46-piece orchestra last summer, and he was so stoked on the live permutations of the songs that he piled the orchestra into the studio with him to rerecord a number of…   Read Story »
Justin Vernon's releasing a second Bon Iver single. This time it's "Holocene" backed by a cover of Bon Iver fan Peter Gabriel's "Come Talk To Me," a song that was out initially as a limited-edition…   Read Story »
Yesterday we posted a live version of an ethereal new tune Bat For Lashes did at Australia's Vivid Festival. The second part of the Opera House set was performed acoustic with a string quartet -- six…   Read Story »
On "Calgary," Justin Vernon's vocals lay in a cloud of gloomy synths and anxious electric guitar tones, suggesting a sonic shift from the grainy For Emma formula. But not too much has changed -- the…   Read Story »
PG joins the likes of Nick Cave as legends take on by Karin on Fever Ray 7" releases. This one's more of an "interpretation" than a cover, Ms. Ray manipulating some of the lyrics, using her own words…   Read Story »
The mutual admiration society Peter Gabriel's spun out around himself extends today with some back-scratching by a fellow cross-generational crossover icon. Remember the m.o. with Peter's Scratch My…   Read Story »
Lately the overarching narrative with respect to Peter Gabriel's been his dialogue with other artists, be it musically or literally. This cover has nothing to do with Scratch My Back, the set of…   Read Story »
The reciprocal part of Peter Gabriel's Scratch My Back project moves forward with Elbow's cover of "Mercy Street" (from Gabriel's 1986 album So). Says Elbow's Guy Garvey: "We chose to cover 'Mercy…   Read Story »
The video you're about to watch is a career highlight for me. I became a Peter Gabriel fan(atic) after seeing "Digging In The Dirt" on VH1 in the dog days of '92. That September, prior to the…   Read Story »