SPIN.com's Best of the Week
It was a big week for concerts: Bruce Springsteen and Lily Allen both knocked 'em dead at their U.S. tour openers, Chris Cornell rocked Soundgarden classics on his solo tour, and Morrissey wowed the crowd at New York City's Carnegie Hall.
All these stories, plus the week's top news, photo galleries, editors' blogs, audio/video, and reviews below:
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SPIN.com's Best of the Week
This week, SPIN's David Marchese spoke to No Doubt about their upcoming reunion tour. And 21 different musicians paid tribute to R.E.M. in concert at New York's Carnegie Hall. Meanwhile, Jack White debuted his new supergroup in Nashville and Pearl Jam kicked off a series of podcasts. Read on for all these stories, plus the week's top photo galleries, audio/video, news, and reviews.
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SPIN.com's Best of the Week
This week's top stories featured more comebacks than the Rocky film franchise: Eminem announced he will end a five-year absence with two new albums, Michael Jackson detailed a 10-date performance series in the U.K., and Clap Your Hands Say Yeah emerged from their "hiatus" to offer a new track.
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SPIN.com's Best of the Week
This week's top stories had everyone talking: Kanye West mouthed off about Thom Yorke, the White Stripes disappointed on Conan's last night at Late Night, Chris Brown and Rihanna continued to cause controversy, and SPIN's Ellen Carpenter had some eyebrow-raising ideas about how to spend the $787 billion economic stimulus -- and blink-182's Mark Hoppus had something to say about it on his
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SPIN.com's Best of the Week
The music world was full of fighting this past week: Kanye West and Chairlift released dueling videos, Suge Knight got roughed by Akon's manager, the Brits Awards dissed Coldplay, and Lily Allen fought, well, everybody. All this, plus the week's top editors' blogs, news, audio/video, and reviews below!
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SPIN.com's Best of the Week
Leading up to Valentine's Day, love was certainly on tap this past week: Ryan Adams and Mandy Moore got engaged, the Mobius Band gave away a sonic love letter to their fans, and Trail of Dead showed some love to SPIN's new offices with a private performance. Meanwhile, the domestic abuse allegations against Chris Brown have us asking, "Where's the love?"




