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This week Eminem scored the year's best-selling album, the Beastie Boys visited Jimmy Fallon, Chris Brown broke his silence, and former Wilco member Jay Bennett passed away unexpectedly. All these stories, plus the week's best editor's blogs, photo galleries, audio/video, news, and reviews, below:

Brooklyn, NY, rockers White Rabbits' recently-released sophomore effort is titled It's Frightening -- but there was nothing scary about the band's recent mini-concert at SPIN's downtown Manhattan offices.

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More performers have been added to the lineup for this June's Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival. Hip-hop vanguards Public Enemy and West African duo Amadou & Mariam have joined the roster, along with indie rock up-and-comers White Rabbits and Passion Pit, underground rapper Murs, and roots-rocker Ani DiFranco.

"The Plot," a buoyant rave-up laced with a shout-along chorus of whoa-oh-ohs, was the high water mark of White Rabbits' impressive 2007 debut record, Fort Nightly, a dancefloor-ready romp that turned explosive at the band's rowdy live gigs.