Terrific Twitter Trio of the Week

Tegan and Sara, Dylan Lyrics, and Hot Chip make our list.
Tegan and Sara, Hot Chip, and Dylan Lyrics!

Lots of musicians tweet -- but all that Twitters is not gold.

That's why you'll want to check out SPIN.com every Friday to see whose tweets we're reading this week -- then update your TweetDeck! (Obligatory Self-Promotion: …while you're at it, be sure to follow @SPINmagazine!)

This week's winners:

SPIN.com's Best of the Week

From Green Day's new tour to the Lollapalooza lineup, this week's top stories had us asking, "Is it summer yet?"
Green Day's Billy Joe / Eminem / Perry Farrell

This week's top stories had us thinking that summer couldn't come soon enough: Green Day announced their summer tour plans, while officials unveiled the lineup for this year's Lollapalooza festival. Meanwhile, Eminem unveiled the pilled-out cover of his summer release and Oasis announced plans to take a summer vacation -- for five years!

Hot Chip to Mellow Out on Next Album

The electro band dial down their dance floor assault on their upcoming release. Click here for details!
Hot Chip

Expect less "ready for the floor" and more "heading for the door" on Hot Chip's new album. The Brit electro band's follow-up to 2008's dance-tastic album Made in the Dark will feature mellow "end of the night tunes."

Album Stream: Beck Covers Dylan, YYYs Cover Ramones

Listen to Heroes, a star-studded compilation benefiting the War Child Organization.
Yeah Yeah Yeahs / Beck

If you're like us, you've been hoarding every opportunity to hear tracks from the forthcoming War Child benefit compilation Heroes.

Beck, Lily Allen, TV on the Radio Cover Rock Legends

See who Bob Dylan, U2, Bruce Springsteen, and Stevie Wonder picked to rerecord their famous songs
Beck / Lily Allen / TV on the Radio's Tunde Adebimpe

File this one under "awesome idea combined with a great cause." The War Child International charity, which provides aid to children in war-torn countries like Iraq and Afghanistan, recently asked 16 legendary musicians, including Bob Dylan, David Bowie, and Bruce Springsteen, to choose a song from their catalogue and a contempo

Listen: Hot Chip and Peter Gabriel Cover Vampire Weekend

The Brit electro-nerds and the world music savant revamp the Afro-pop hit.

There have been murmurings of a Hot Chip and Peter Gabriel cover of Vampire Weekend's "Cape Cod Kwassa Kwassa" for a while now, but the idea of it was so ludicrously enticing that we didn't dare let ourselves believe it was true.

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