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Saturday Night Live host and musical guest Mick Jagger got a hand from Arcade Fire, Foo Fighters, Jeff Beck, and the Strokes’ Nikolai Fraiture when he performed on the show’s 37th season finale last night. Arcade Fire (with Nikolai) backed the Rolling Stone on “The Last Time,” and returned later with a medley of “She’s A Rainbow” and “Ruby Tuesday” for the graduation-themed Kristen Wiig farewell (yep, it was her last episode). Mick also played “19th Nervous Breakdown” and “It’s Only Rock ‘N Roll (But I Like It)” with the Foos, and the new politically-themed “Tea Party” with Jeff Beck. Plus: “Lazy Sunday 2″! Watch all the clips below.

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Here’s a new socially conscious tune complete with kids’ chorus from Dave Matthews Band called “Gaucho,” played for the first time tonight at Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion in Texas, and slated to appear on the band’s forthcoming Steve Lillywhite-produced fall LP. The song’s now been released as a free download to members of the DMB fan club, but in case you’re not a member for some reason, you can also hear below.

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Promoting their highly acclaimed Bloom released earlier this week, Beach House dropped by the Ed Sullivan Theater yesterday for a Letterman segment that aired earlier tonight. The played “Myth” and, according to the band’s Facebook, “Paul Shaffer has some great synths you can’t see on TV and they played a Depeche Mode song too.” Watch:

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Adam Bainbridge and his cadre of soulful post-disco/house/dance revelers turned up on these shores this week, and the Village’s (Le) Poisson Rouge door last night, for their first-ever show in NYC. This wasn’t their first American show, mind — there was that series of gigs in Austin earlier this year during which Kindness introduced his cheeky brand of deadpan charisma, his glowing background singers, his long legs and painted-on pants and reflectively shiny shoes. It was Kindness’s first show on these shores with a full-length officially out and so a crowd fully versed in World, You Need A Chage Of Mind‘s substantial and hearty charms, though, so that bubbling swagger Bainbridge brought to SXSW was a bit more vintage when popped at LPR last night. (Well, maybe more poured than popped, per se: Last night was the first time I saw a singer sidle and dance while slugging from a carafe of wine, which is an entirely new league of luxe-pop frontman power move.) The band made good on all those aforementioned “post-” genre tags: teasing Anita Baker’s “Sweet Love” (soulful), “Cyan” (disco), and “House” (house), and Bainbridge was loosened up enough to work (and dance in) the crowd (he also covered Jai Paul’s “Jasmine“). There was a huge mound of mysterious white powder spilled near the front of stage (Bainbridge: “What IS that?!”), and there were house lights behind him spelling out “Cyan,” which is to say: Kindness got the Greenwich Village circa 2012 red carpet welcome. Check out the photos above by Ryan “Cyan” Muir.

Almost everyone who entered our Dirty Projectors caption contest got a thumbs down! Yeesh. As eldave put it, “Tough room.” In gentler news, this week we heard a heartwarming hitchhiking story, speculated on Centipede Hz, and probably saved RubberJohnny‘s vision. So without further delay here are your highest and lowest rated comments of the past seven days.

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Waka Flocka Flame’s new album, Triple F Life, showcases some new looks and song structures for Flocka, but the just-dropped “Lurkin’” is a gritty, bubbling banger akin to those found on the great, game-changing Flockaveli. Florida party rapper Plies shows up and gets some high-energy shouting in, too. Fifth Ave., watch out below — my computer might be going through a window soon. Stream below.

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If the Walkmen were a basketball player, they’d be Tyson Chandler: Charming, erudite, handsome, and smooth, but not flashy or self-aggrandizing. Like Chandler, they bring a fundamental intensity to just about everything they do. Chandler has his muscular low-post moves, and the Walkmen have drummer Matt Barrick, who never overwhelms the songs he plays on but who hits harder than just about anyone else in indie rock. And like Chandler, the Walkmen had to keep working for a long time before it started to dawn on people that they were as good as they are. So here’s hoping that Heaven, the Walkmen’s seventh album and quite possibly the best, works as the Walkmen’s equivalent to the 2011 NBA Finals — the moment where the world at large realizes that the Walkmen aren’t just strong and dependable, but that they’re one of the best indie bands we’ve got.

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ATL trap music icon Gucci Mane will put out a new mixtape next week, and today he released the title cut, “I’m Up,” a lurching Drummer Boy production that features the ubiquitous 2 Chainz. Drumma Boy gives these dudes a softball — it’s unspectacular in the sense that it’s one of those “right-in-the-wheelhouse” tracks that Gucci Mane has earned a reputation by slaying, but if this sets the tone for the rest of I’m Up, you should check the Mixtape Of The Week section in about ten days. “Imma throw a bomb at you,” says the Mane himself. Stream it below.

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“Rusty Chains” has been in the mix during many of Perfume Genius’s recent live sets, and today he put a studio version of that release out there for the masses. It’s a elegant, longing ode to a former lover who has died, and Hadreas does a splendid job of communicating that heartache. Download below:

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Americana, the new record of reworked American standards by the reunited Neil Young & Crazy Horse, comes out this summer. We’ve already heard their blown-out takes on “Oh Susannah” and “She’ll Be Coming Round The Mountain” and now comes their hard-rocking take on “Clementine.” Watch the video, featuring some good old archive footage, below.

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