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.

This week, Courtney Love took to Twitter to lob insults at former Hole guitarist Eric Erlandson, Modest Mouse debuted a new song exclusively on SPIN.com, and reality star / aspiring rapper Spencer Pratt claimed to have more street cred than Jay-Z.

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

Few things in music are as charming as a duet, especially when it's between Wilco's Jeff Tweedy and Feist.

Wilco's live shows are predictably superb. But even by that dependable standard, the Chicago band's performance at Coney Island's KeySpan Ballpark (home of the rookie league Brooklyn Cyclones!) Monday night was on a higher level -- and featured an a all-star jam with Feist, Grizzly's Ed Droste, and Yo La Tengo!

Watch video below.

SPIN cover stars No Doubt played their first concert in five years this week, kicking off a massive summer reunion tour.

David Byrne, the National, Feist, Bon Iver, and Sharon Jones, among others, performed at New York's Radio City Music Hall Sunday night for Dark Was the Night Live, a celebration of AIDS/HIV awareness organization Red Hot's compilation of the same name.