Turns out, Oasis' Noel Gallagher has a sense of humor after all. Gallagher had said prior to Jay-Z's recent headlining gig at the Glastonbury Festival: "[I'm] not having hip-hop at Glastonbury. No way. It's wrong,"

After lots of internet speculation, full album details are finally here, exclusively at SPIN.com: Post-hardcore powerhouse Thursday's and Japanese melodic shredder Envy's split LP will arrive November 4 via Temporary Residence Ltd.

There's a moment towards the end of Filth and Wisdom, Madonna's directorial debut, when the character Andre, the lead singer of a band called Gogol Bordello -- who, in one of many puzzling choices made in this film, is played by Eugene Hutz, who is really the singer of Gogol Bord

To whet your appetite for our extended coverage of this past weekend's (July 19-20) Download 2008, which we will be posting throughout the day, SPIN.com has put together this gallery of exclusive behind-the-scenes images of Datarock, M83, Yeasayer, and several other acts that supported headliners the Jesus and Mary Chain and Gang of Four.

It was quite a show on Saturday night, July 12, at the UCLA Pauley Pavillion, as VH1's Rock Honors paid tribute to the Who with performances from Pearl Jam, the Flaming Lips, Tenacious D, the Foo Fighters and Incubus. But the rock'n'roll lifestyle the pinball wizards helped pioneer made its way down to the After-Party at the W Los Angeles in Westwood.

We've all seen the scene in High Fidelity where John Cusack and his record- store cohorts rattle off their favorite album openers of all time. And certainly, music history has more than its share of epic LP closers. But the impending fireworks and festive gorging of Independence Day got us thinking: What about lonely little track four?