DJ and super-producer Mark Ronson has teamed up with luxury giant Gucci to design four types of Gucci Ronson sneakers that will be sold exclusively through traveling pop-up shops and a new Gucci iPhone app.

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:

With 2008's Only By the Night, Kings of Leon fused their characteristic Southern rock guitars with more exploratory studio sounds -- but the boys haven't satisfied their experimental side just yet.

Wednesday night's Rumble Strips album launch party in London had all the trappings of a music industry wedding.

After yet another blown gig, it appears that the only thing that Amy Winehouse is headlining this summer is her very own cancellation-palooza.

The latest: Uber-producer Quincy Jones has rescinded his invitation to Winehouse to record a song for a tribute album being compiled in his honor.

When there's something strange, in the studio… who you gonna call? Mark Ronson! When there's something reggae, and it don't sound good…Who you gonna call? Mark Ronson!

Amy Winehouse is reportedly using her "phone a friend" lifeline for her forthcoming album, following reports that her early efforts have been panned by executives at her label Island Records.