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ByBrian Hiatt

Brent Hinds, frontman and lead guitarist for Mastodon, has reached the inevitable stage in the eventide when his speech starts to slur. A few hours back, during a listening session for his Atlanta metal band's epic new album, Crack the Skye, he polished off at least six Budweiser tallboys;

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In talk about Peter Gabriel's new album, Up, I was leaving to save that it has the inaugural album track on which his face doesn't actually appear since twenty days ago - but so I looked at the screen again, and thither he is, at an angle in the murky background.