Television to the rescue! No seriously, just how much music have you gotten into lately because of TV? Whether you saw someone perform on a late night talk show, or SNL. Or you heard a really cool tune on a commercial, and just had to Google it to find out who it was. Maybe you saw a story about an artist on CBS Sunday Morning, and were so moved to go to iTunes and download their latest. Could be there was a cool song playing during the end of show credits. Television, which until recently has been such a vast wasteland for many things, is where the grass is growing through the concrete, giving some new music a chance to break through the white noise of the clutter, the bombardment of stimuli that now makes up our daily pastiche.

It is season two for Parenthood, by Oscar-winning producers Ron Howard and Brian Grazer. We discovered a real nice video of a song from the Parenthood (Original Television Soundtrack) CD, which, by the way includes music from Bob Dylan, Brett Dennen, Amos Lee, The Avett Brothers, Corrine Bailey Rae, The Eels, Josh Ritter, Lucy Schwartz, The Swell Season, Wilco, Ray LaMontagne and John Doe. That is a damn cool list. The Bob Dylan contribution is the tune "Forever Young," which John Doe and Lucy Schwartz cover here, and both versions are on the CD. It only seems fair that we bring you longtime X member John Doe, after mentioning him on the Exene post from Friday. And may YOU always be, "Forever Young."

- Jessie Scott