SPIN.com Live at Coachella, All Weekend Long

Follow along as the Killers, M.I.A., Yeah Yeah Yeahs, and dozens more rock the California desert. Click here for details!

This weekend, SPIN.com will be bringing you full coverage of the Coachella Music and & Arts Festival in Indio, CA. If Paul McCartney bumps into Morrissey, if M.I.A. busts out a new song, or if the Cure's Robert Smith shares his eyeliner with Yeah Yeah Yeahs singer Karen O, we'll make sure you know about it.

SPIN.com's Best of the Week

Kanye vs. Chairlift, Lily Allen vs. everyone. Plus: Coldplay, M.I.A, Kings of Leon, and more!
Lily Allen, Chris Martin, Kanye West

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!

M.I.A.'s Baby Is Born

Boy or girl? Click here for details on the "Paper Planes" rapper's child.
M.I.A. / Photographed for SPIN by Greg Kadel

Maya Arulpragasam, a.k.a. M.I.A., gave birth to her first child, a boy, Wednesday, Feb. 11, at 1:30 P.M. in Los Angeles. It is her first child with fiancee Benjamin Brewer, a New York musician and founder of Green Owl Records.

All 25 Grammy Performances -- Ranked!

Who's No. 1? Who's the worst? SPIN's Charles Aaron goes where only a true music obsessive would dare.
Radiohead / Photo John Shearer (WireImage.com)

Grammys: The 7 Best Moments

SPIN's Steve Kandell on M.I.A.'s belly, Coldplay's charm, and Thom Yorke's new haircut.
M.I.A., Kanye West, T.I., Jay-Z, and Lil Wayne / Photo Kevin Mazur (WireImage.com)

1) BEST SELF-EFFACING ACCEPTANCE SPEECH BY A GROUP OR DUO
Coldplay, for Chris Martin's "limestone" joke. Dude, we're supposed to be making comments like that about you. If you're gonna poke fun at your band, then what's left for wiseass peanut gallerists to say? Well played.

Grammy Predictions: Who Will Win?

SPIN's David Marchese on the relative merits of Lil Wayne, Coldplay, M.I.A., and …. the Jonas Brothers!
Lil Wayne / Coldplay's Chris Martin / M.I.A.

The 51st annual Grammy Awards feature an amazing roster of performers, including U2, Radiohead, Coldplay, Lil Wayne, Jay-Z, Paul McCartney, Rihanna, Justin Timberlake, Chris Brown, Taylor Swift, the Jonas Brothers, and many more. (Watch the show Sunday, Feb. 8, at 8 p.m. on CBS.) And, it turns out, the Recording Academy is also giving out a few shiny awards.

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