SPIN.com's Best of the Week

From talk of Steven Tyler's drug use to Rihanna's comeback gig. Plus: Radiohead, Beck, Slayer, and more!
Steven Tyler / Rihanna

This week, New Moon premiered in L.A., Aerosmith members discussed singer Steven Tyler's drug habits, Rihanna performed her first concert since the Chris Brown assault, and SPIN stirred the web with our Rock Myths package, which argued that Radiohead kinda blow!

These stories, plus the week's top news, photo galleries, audio/video, and live reviews, below.

Beck and Charlotte Gainsbourg's Surreal Video

Hipsters with shotguns! An astronaut with pancakes for a head!?! It's a weird world in the duo's new clip.
Charlotte Gainsbourg with Beck

Beck's weird side is rubbing off on French pop royalty Charlotte Gainsbourg.

WATCH: Beck, Wilco, Feist Collaborate!

They cover an album by onetime Moby Grape/Jefferson Airplane member Skip Spence.

As part of his new Record Club project, Beck has recruited friends like MGMT, Devendra Banhart, and Wolfmother's Andrew Stockdale to cover entire albums from the Velvet Underground and Leonard Cohen.

DOWNLOAD: Charlotte Gainsbourg & Beck Single

Admit it: You're dying to know whether the French chanteuse and the L.A. chameleon make beautiful music together.
Charlotte Gainsbourg / Photo by Paul Jasmin

If French actress/chanteuse/pop-royalty Charlotte Gainsbourg’s last album 5:55 was a fairly conventional singer-songwriter affair, then the first taste of her upcoming collaboration with Beck promises something far more adventurous.

SPIN.com's Best of the Week

From Michael Jackson's funeral to Jay-Z's album leak. Plus: DJ AM, Beck, Say Anything, NIN, and more!
DJ AM / JAY-Z / MICHAEL JACKSON

Watch: Beck & MGMT Cover Leonard Cohen

Devendra Banhart, Little Joy, and Wolfmother also join in for second installment of Beck's Record Club project.
BECK

For the second post in his much-hyped Record Club project, Beck has teamed up with Andrew VanWyngarden and Ben Goldwasser of MGMT -- plus freak-folk star Devendra Banhart, Andrew Stockdale of Wolfmother, and Binki Shapiro of Little Joy -- for a fresh take on Leonard Cohen's 1968 classic love song "Suzanne" Watch it below.

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