SPIN.com's Best of the Week

From Courtney Love's latest feud to Modest Mouse's new song, here are the week's biggest stories. Plus: Spencer Pratt, Wilco, Thom Yorke, and more!
Courtney Love / Spencer Pratt / isaac brock

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.

Watch: Wilco Join Grizzly Bear, Feist Live

Tweedy and Co. also invite Yo La Tengo onstage during their performance at Brooklyn's minor league baseball park. Click here for a review!
Jeff Tweedy and Leslie Feist / Photo by <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/subcow/" target="_new">Kurt Christensen</a>

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.

Grizzly Bear, Girl Talk Headline Brooklyn's Pool Parties

The popular series of free Sunday shows also nabs Dirty Projectors, Trail of Dead, and more. Click here for more details!
Grizzly Bear's Ed Droste at Bonnaroo / Photo Michael Didyoung

It's only fitting that a concert series based in Williamsburg, Brooklyn -- hipsterdom's Plymouth Rock -- has assembled a lineup stocked with indie faves galore.

Naked Madonna, Singing Mr. T, and More

Click here for a look at some of the web’s weirdest news of the week.
Madonna and Mr. T

A nude portrait of Madonna and Guy Ritchie is up for auction -- just the thing for your collection of creepy, defunct power-couple wall hangings. [Telegraph]

New Albums from Grizzly Bear, Marilyn Manson, and 4 More

Get SPIN's take on the best and worst releases of the week!
Grizzly Bear

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

Grizzly Bear: Soap Opera

The debauched hellraisers of Grizzly Bear come clean about new pressures, old tensions, and bursting out of the indie-rock bubble.
Photographed for SPIN by Cass Bird

Listening to Grizzly Bear's sepia-toned fantasias, you could easily imagine the men who make them spending their leisure time perusing dusty daguerreotypes or promenading down moonlit cobblestone streets. Bowling? Not so much.

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