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The National, Kurt Vile, Damien Rice and more have contributed cover tracks to Songs For Australia, a compilation album put together by Julia Stone to benefit brush fire relief efforts. Stone, an Australian singer-songwriter best known as one half of brother-sister duo Angus & Julia Stone, brought together local and …

Kurt Vile performed a stripped-down cover of Tom Petty‘s “Learning to Fly” during a recent live session for Sirius channel XMU. Vile flipped the jangly rocker into a subtle, country-tinged tune, using just an acoustic guitar and a simple percussion backing track. In between nimble runs up and down his …