Modest Mouse, Sheryl Crow, Katy Perry Top Bumbershoot Bill

Click here to find out who else is confirmed for the annual Seattle Festival.
Modest Mouse

The initial lineup for the 39th annual Bumbershoot Music & Arts Festival has been announced, along with the promise that there's "much more to come."

New Albums From Calexico, Gym Class Heroes, Kimya Dawson, and 9 More

Get SPIN's take on the best and worst releases of the week -- and hear a few new songs, too!
Calexico / Photo by Aubrey Edwards

Here's a rundown of the essential albums available online and in record stores today:

SPIN's Week in Review, June 23-27

What we learned this week: Amy Winehouse smokes 'em when she's got 'em. Even when she's got emphysema. Paul Weller's not into dustbowl towns. And much much more.
Amy Winehouse / Photo by Rebbecca Smeyne

It's one thing when the Empire strikes back, but wait till you get a load of Kanye's rebuttal to the Bonnaroo scuttlebutt. But West was just one of may artists who made the week memorable, as you will read below.

New Common Market MP3 from 'Tobacco Road'

Exclusive! Get a four-plus minute earful of the Seattle hip-hop duo's new title track.
Common Market at Bumbershoot '06

Lyric-spitter RA Scion and his producing partner-in-crime Sabzi (also of Blue Scholars repute) first fueled their way out of Seattle's rain-soaked streets with the Black Patch War EP earlier this year, but if the title track to Tobacco Road, out Sept.

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