Rolling Stone Wednesday September 26, 2007

TODAY'S TOP ROCK HEADLINES

BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN AND THE E STREET BAND PLAY BENEFIT REHEARSAL GIG Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band played the first of three rehearsal gigs for their upcoming Magic tour Monday night in New Jersey (the proceeds will go to charity). Springsteen and Co. broke out classics like "Born to Run" and "No Surrender," and debuted fresh material including new single "Radio Nowhere." Click HERE for more details and photos.

MERLE HAGGARD: EXCLUSIVE MUSIC FROM NEW ALBUM Click HERE to listen to exclusive tracks from Merle Haggard's upcoming album, The Bluegrass Sessions, and get the inside scoop on the album, which hits stores next Tuesday.

RAPPERS HEAD TO CAPITOL HILL Rappers Master P and David Banner were on Capitol Hill yesterday to testify before the House Subcommittee on Commerce, Trade, and Consumer Protection in a hearing organized by Rep. Bobb Rush (D-Ill) to determine if hip-hop imagery is damaging to women and African-Americans. Click HERE for what Banner and Master P had to say.

FRICKE'S PICKS: WOODEN SHJIPS, TULSA AND YOUR 33 BLACK ANGELS In the latest Fricke's Picks, David Fricke recommends the Day-Glo drone rock of Wooden Shjips, the love, reverb and twang of Tulsa and the poppy, Pavement-meets-Strokes rattle of Your 33 Black Angels. Click HERE for more.

NEW MUSIC TUESDAYS: FOO FIGHTERS, DEVENDRA BANHART In the latest episode of New Music Tuesdays, Christian Hoard reviews Foo Fighters' Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace and Devendra Banhart's Smokey Rolls Down Thunder Canyon. Click HERE to watch the episode.

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TODAY'S PICKS

DAILY TRACK: Annie Lennox - "Sing" "Sing" gathers a coterie of female vocalists -- including Madonna, Dido and Joss Stone -- to raise awareness about mother-child HIV transmission in Africa. That the song doesn't collapse under its good intentions is a tribute to its sturdy pop craft -- a virtue in more than ample supply on this sparkling album. Click HERE for more.

DAILY VIDEO: Panic! at the Disco - A "New" Song We May Never Hear Again

DAILY REVIEW: Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings - 100 Days, 100 Nights Sharon Jones projects her gritty, credible, emotion-laden, stylistically undistinguished voice over some of the finest horn charts ever created for soul music -- funky, jazzy, subtly voiced things that compare to Pee Wee Ellis' trickiest writing for James Brown. Click HERE for more on the album.

ARTIST OF THE DAY: BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN The complete ROLLINGSTONE.COM archive includes videos, photos, interviews, reviews, and more.

TODAY'S BIRTHDAYS Bryan Ferry of Roxy Music, 62 Christina Millan, 25 TODAY'S ROCK ON TV (ALL TIMES EST) NBC 11:35pm - The Tonight Show with Jay Leno: REBA MCENTIRE, VINCE GILL 12:35am - Late Night with Conan O'Brien: DEVENDRA BANHART 1:35am - Last Call with Carson Daly: CHAMILLIONAIRE CBS 11:35pm - The Late Show with David Letterman: CHAKA KAHN 12:35am - The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson: THE NATIONAL 12:05am - Jimmy Kimmel Live - WILL.I.AM