The financial sector may be in meltdown, but here at SPIN.com we've witnessed the music business in full swing, including long-awaited reunions and triumphant comebacks, as well as a certain hip-hop visionary in the throes of writer's block. Check out this week's highlights below:

With a new album and a long-awaited reunion you'd think Ben Folds would consider taking a much-deserved breather. Instead, the piano man is already plotting his next project -- a musical collaboration with High Fidelity author Nick Hornby.

What? Lately, piano-pop singer/songwriter Ben Folds has been making us here at SPIN.com feel jut a bit lazy. As if reuniting with his former mates in the seminal '90s alt-pop group Ben Folds Five -- for the first time in 10 years!

The kids may be headed back to school, but SPIN.com has been on a permanent rock vacation this past week; we've brought you musical dispatches from Seattle's Bumbershoot festival, given you the scoop about reunions and upcoming albums, and let you inside the pages of this month's SPIN cover story about alt-rock journeyman Beck. Check out this week's highlights below:

Just as fans were finally accepting the death of '90s balladeers Ben Folds Five and embracing each member's respective solo projects, the piano, drum, and bass trio will reunite for the first time in 10 years to tape an installment of MySpace's newest show, Front to Back.

The celebrated-but-defunct trio (no, not quintet) Ben Folds Five may have split some eight years ago, but its former members have been quite busy in recent times.