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The foursome started playing together in 2007; though they were playing with other bands at the time, they bonded over their shared love of rootsy music. Babel is the followup to their hugely successful debut Sigh No More.

Stone Temple Pilots release their highly anticipated new album, their first with new lead singer Jeff Gutt. The band honors the past while keeping an eye to the future on tracks like Meadow, the album's first single.

"Mark Knopfler's ninth solo studio album features unhurriedly elegant new songs inspired by a wide range of subjects, including his early days in Deptford with Dire Straits, a stray football fan lost in a strange town, and the compulsion of a musician hitching home through the snow. Mark has a poet's eye for telling details that infuse his songs with his unique psychogeography." --

"Sara Bareilles stormed the music scene in 2007 with the hit single Love Song from her debut album Little Voice. Following on the heels of her success with her Broadway musical Waitress, and her starring turn in the live television production of Jesus Christ Superstar, she returns to center stage with her fifth album of twelve new songs." --

From the veteran Alt-Rock band, REM's "Collapse Into Now" features some very special guests: Patti Smith, guitarist Lenny Kaye, Peaches, Eddie Vedder, and The Hidden Camera's frontman Joel Gibb.