Web Weirdness: John Mayer vs. Kanye West, and More

Mayer issues a sex challenge, grandparents review Animal Collective, and more!
John Mayer / Kanye West

John Mayer has challenged Kanye West's 808s and Heartbreak by singing over a hip-hop beat on his new track, which features the lyric: "I like sex / And I'm good at it." What's next? Mayer's ex, Jennifer Aniston, finds a personality? [YouTube]

SPIN.com's Best of the Week, November 10-16

It was an emotional week: Jay-Z, Obama, Paramore, and more spread the love, while the Sex Pistols and Bloc Party drank the hater-ade. Click here for these stories and more!

It was a baffling week, one filled with plenty of love and hate. For a little help understanding we turned to the stars.

Sure, Jay-Z (Sagittarius) and President-Elect Barack Obama (Leo) bonded over a new The Blueprint 3 track, which is characteristic for the two signs.

Exclusive Photos: Madonna Live in Las Vegas!

Click here to see the Material Girl in lingerie and top hat at the MGM Grand.
Madonna / Photo by Casey Flanigan

There's no better place to show off the toned bod and glittery stage show than Las Vegas. And Saturday night, when Madonna's Sticky & Sweet world tour rolled into Sin City, the 50-year-old singer -- who's been on the road since late August -- rocked through one of the best performances of the tour thus far.

First Look: Madonna's 'Filth and Wisdom'

Gogol Bordello's Eugene Hutz plays himself, sort of, in Madonna's cluttered, muddled first turn in the director's chair.
Eugene Hutz of Gogol Bordello in <I>Filth and Wisdom</I>

There's a moment towards the end of Filth and Wisdom, Madonna's directorial debut, when the character Andre, the lead singer of a band called Gogol Bordello -- who, in one of many puzzling choices made in this film, is played by Eugene Hutz, who is really the singer of Gogol Bord

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