To help promote the October 13th release of the band's third album Symmetry, Keane have made a track from the album, "Spiralling", available on their web site as a free MP3 download. You'll need to register for the site, at which point you'll be provided with a link to download the song to your computer.

I've been a fan of Keane's catchy Britpop in the past, but this track doesn't move me. In fact, I can't say I care for this at all. I hear the influence of Fine Young Cannibals and Duran Duran, especially in the production. If this is representative of the rest of Symmetry, this is a new release I'll skip.

Classic rock fans know Nils Lofgren... the guitarist who has played in Bruce Springsteen's E Street Band, with Neil Young in Crazy Horse, with Rod Stewart, and alongside many others. Now, the guitarist has posted a series of video guitar lessons on his official site. The lessons are grouped into beginner and intermediate categories, and run about one hour each.

To make learning more fun, Nils uses his own songs to help illustrate the techniques he's teaching. So, not only do you get to learn the songs, but you get to watch Nils playing them live.

The lessons aren't free - they run $20 per one hour video. They're also about 200 megabytes each... very large files that require high speed connections and a good deal of patience to download. But the lessons, particularly the intermediate entries, provide good insight into the mind and playing style of Nils Lofgren. For a free sample of the lessons, take a look at the Nils Lofgren YouTube video.

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