INTERVIEWSWeekSauce: SPIN's Friday Night Highlights

• SPIN launched our first-ever "Funny" Issue, guest edited by Patton Oswalt who kindly introduced the following stories:
• Das Racist Cover Story: These Colors Don't Run
• Why Tom Scharpling and Jon Wurster of WFMU's 'Best Show' Are Punk Genuises
• Portlandia Stars Fred Armisen and Carrie Brownstein Toast Rock's Great Clichés
• We Like Short Shorts! Online Comedy That Keeps It Simple (and Stupid)
• Dressed to Kill: A Day in the Life of Rising Comedienne Natasha Leggero
• A Final Word From SPIN's Guest Editor Patton Oswalt

• SPIN spoke to Garbage about how they rediscovered the hunger on their 2012 LP, asked Johnny Marr how he inspired Best Coast, and found out Blink-182/Angels and Airwaves singer-guitarist Tom DeLonge is still into potty humor.

• We also got the scoop on upcoming albums from the Dirty Projectors (very horror-y!) and Die Antwoord (very freaky!).

• Everyone mourned the demise of Sonic Youth super couple Kim Gordon and Thurston Moore in photos, while we celebrated 12 indie pairings who are still keeping the dream alive.

• SPIN premiered Deer Tick's Divine Providence LP, Russian Circles' Empros, a fantastic video of R.E.M. performing with Neil Young, and perhaps most importantly, Scott Weiland's Christmas album.

• For your benefit, we counted down the five most memorable lyrics on the Loutallica album Lulu, Coldplay's five most self-deprecating comments on The Colbert Report, and found amusing footage of Axl Rose falling down.

• Also: We gave Grouplove a rash.