Week in Review

SPIN.com's Best of the Week

Kanye vs. Chairlift, Lily Allen vs. everyone. Plus: Coldplay, M.I.A, Kings of Leon, and more!
Lily Allen, Chris Martin, Kanye West
Lily Allen, Chris Martin, Kanye West

The music world was full of fighting this past week: Kanye West and Chairlift released dueling videos, Suge Knight got roughed by Akon's manager, the Brits Awards dissed Coldplay, and Lily Allen fought, well, everybody. All this, plus the week's top editors' blogs, news, audio/video, and reviews below!

TOP STORIES:




Plus: Jay-Z's latest comments on Rihanna -- and the Leona Lewis flirtation rumor denied. Read >>

PLUS:
  • Video Battle: Kanye vs. Chairlift Read >>
  • Lily Allen Storms Charts and Fights Perez Hilton Read >>
  • Suge Knight Hospitalized After Fight Read >>
  • Video: Duffy, Kings of Leon Win, Coldplay Snubbed at Brit Awards Read >>

 

EDITORS' BLOGS:




The Nirvana frontman would be 42 today. SPIN's David Marchese picks five groups he'd champion, if he were still around. Read >>

PLUS:
  • Stars Sing to Save Children's Lives Read >>

 

AUDIO/VIDEO:




PLUS: Download his Hamlet-inspired new song, "Hey There, Ophelia," featuring members of Cobra Starship and the Donnas. Read >>

PLUS:
  • Exclusive Video: Trail of Dead Play SPIN Party Read >>
  • Exclusive Download: Young Love Read >>
  • Exclusive Download: These Are Powers Read >>
  • Exclusive Song: Indie Supergroup Swan Lake Read >>
  • Exclusive Song: Lamb of God's Insane Riffage Read >>

 

NEWS:




Boy or girl? Click here for details on the "Paper Planes" rapper's child. Read >>

PLUS:
  • Pumpkins, Hanson, Cheap Trick Members Form Band!?! Read >>
  • Nine Inch Nails and Jane's Addiction Plan Tour Read >>
  • Buy Kurt Cobain's T-Shirts! Read >>
  • Kings of Leon Are Being Stalked Read >>
  • Puscifer Perform First Live Gig Read >>

 

REVIEWS:




Mayor of Mope is back for another term. Read >>

PLUS:
  • ...And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead, The Century of Self (Richter Scale/Justice) Read >>
  • Asobi Seksu, Hush (Polyvinyl) Read >>
  • Beirut/Realpeople, March of the Zapotec/Holland (Pompeii) Read >>
  • Living Things, Habeas Corpus (Jive) Read >>
  • M. Ward, Hold Time (Merge) Read >>
  • Thursday, Common Existence (Epitaph) Read >>
  • Benjy Ferree, Come Back to the Five and Dime Bobby Dee Bobby Dee (Domino) Read >>
  • Iran, Dissolver (Narnack) Read >>
  • Alela Diane, To Be Still (Rough Trade) Read >>
  • The Drones, Havilah (ATP) Read >>

 

 

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