June 22, 2012 – David Letterman's assault on the supposed bromance he and Justin Bieber may have shared at one point soldiered on last night when the prince of pop took on double duty as guest and performer on the Late Show. In the past, he's forced the kid to recite cringe-tastic "little known facts" about himself, but on last night's sow, the host apparently abandoned all pretense and went right for the jugular, via the crotchety "respect your elders" routine, calling him out on his new "BELIEVE" tattoo, trying to convince him to go to college (as if the 18-year-old riot-inciter needs the "chicks ahoy" Letterman uses as bait), and subjecting him to opera music. Letterman did apologize later on, though, likely to ensure Biebs millionth "Boyfriend" performance since its arrival in March would go off unmarred by awkwardness — and of course, Bieber being the pro that he is, it did.

June 22, 2012 – In an apparent attempt to render the Dreezygate fiasco even more ridiculous, San Antonio Spurs point guard Tony Parker is actually suing the club where Drake and Chris Brown's crews incited one of the most frivolously dramatic hip-hop beefs in recent memory by starting a bottle fight that injured a handful of bystanders — for $20 million. According to TMZ, the suit alleges negligence on behalf of the W.i.P.'s security and claims that Parker, as previously reported, suffered lacerations to his cornea as a result of getting hit with shards of glass in the kerfuffle. When he reported the injuries (again to TMZ), he was said to have been benched for a week by the injury (but, as he said at the time, it luckily "won't prevent [him] from competing in the Olympics in any way" — he went to begin practicing with France's team earlier this week).

June 22, 2012 – Austin City Limits is moving to Cleveland — well, at least part of its history is. Thirty-six years' worth of material, including documents, video, audio, and photo content, from the live music PBS television series will make its way to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Museum, where it will be archived and displayed for fans and scholars to peruse. Yesterday afternoon, the two organizations, both coincidentally captained by guys named Terry — Rock Hall Museum president and CEO Terry Stewart and ACL executive producer Terry Lickona — announced the partnership with parallel statements, indicating that the partnership is a win-win (nearly 40 years' worth of audio and video material is a lot to handle!).

June 21, 2012 – Perhaps it was the specter of Johnny Depp continuously hanging with Marilyn Manson lately, but actors are clambering to appear in indie-rock videos at an unsettlling pace. The most gasp-worthy star-sighting in videos this week came Monday with Shia LaBeouf's appearance in the (La)buff in Sigur Rós' video for "Fjögur Píanó." Obviously the Internet had a field day trying to decide whether the very-NSFW nature of the clip, in which Shia and actress Denna Thomsen perform a heartbreaking (and naked) interpretive dance, was gratuitous or not. The director, Israeli filmmaker Alma Mar'el, says the nude scenes weren't pre-planned. But in light of LaBeouf's past video work with Marilyn Manson — for the record, LaBeouf has also directed videos for Cage and Kid Cudi — we're going to venture to call this one definitively (click-baiting) art.

June 21, 2012 – After Radiohead's stage collapsed last weekend in Toronto, killing the band's 33-year-old drum tech Scott Johnson and injuring three others, the band issued a brief statement expressing their condolences to his family and friends. Now that the shock of the devastation has worn off the band is attending to business, telling fans that they're going to have to postpone seven European tour dates to fix the damage the accident caused to their "unique" setup. "The collapse also destroyed the light show — this show was unique and will take many weeks to replace," the band write on their official website. "The collapse also caused serious damage to our backline, some elements of which are decades old and therefore hard to replace.

June 21, 2012 – As a company, we here at SPIN are particularly fond of music. As human beings, we are also particularly fond of food. When those two worlds interact, we are all over that business. Which is why we are kind of in love the recently launched podcast iteration of Food is the New Rock, the music-meets-munchies blog of Zach Brooks. The most recent episode, its third, is an interview with Superchunk frontman and Merge Records founder Mac McCaughan, who, it turns out, is married to a wicked-awesome, James Beard award-winning chef to whom he and Merge basically owe the signing of Arcade Fire. McCaughan's wife Andrea Reusing runs the kitchens at Chapel Hill Pan-Asian restaurant the Lantern, where, he explains in the podcast, he took the Grammy-winning Montrealites when Merge was wooing them back in 2003.

June 21, 2012 – It wouldn't be totally out of character for Kanye West to make fans suffer through the majority of the summer before dropping his G.O.O.D. music compilation Cruel Summer as some sort of demonstrative performance art, but it also wouldn't be surprising if he waited until the dead of winter to do the same thing, so pardon us if we (like Vulture) remain skeptical of Pusha T's announcement on Hot 97 yesterday that it would drop August 7 (via HipHopDX). Things we know for sure: We've already heard the comp's slinky first single, "Mercy," as well as seen its stark video component.. The last G.O.O.D.

June 20, 2012 – Following comments he made last month that the quarter of a century he and bandmate Mickey Melchiondo spent as the brilliant rock duo Ween had at last come to an end, Aaron Freeman — better known as Gene Ween — released an official statement to Ween fans this afternoon explaining the decision. As SPIN has already said goodbye to the firecracker pair's career together, we'll let the statement speak for itself: "I want to thank each and every one of you for all of your kind words and support," he writes. "It means a lot. My decision to leave Ween, however interpreted, was absolutely not made in haste. It's evolved over a decade's worth of internal and external struggle. Know that I am extremely proud of all that is Ween. And while Mickey and I are going our separate ways, I wish him only the best. I will always have nothing but love and respect for what we created together.

June 20, 2012 – One of the tougher things about being a successful punk rock band, Green Day have discovered, is realizing you might be a bit too successful to join the proletariat uprising that got you that way. In a new interview with Rolling Stone, Billie Joe Armstrong (somewhat uncomfortably) explains that, while songs on their upcoming album trilogy, like a pair called "99 Revolutions" (hi, Macca!) and "Kill the DJ" (what's up, Morrissey?) were inspired by the Occupy movement and the band's ever-present political frustration, it's been tough for them to exactly call themselves 99 percenters. "We wanted to be part of it in some way," Armstrong explained of the protests in Oakland that've been going on since last year. "I thought it was about working people and where we come from. But Oakland got really complicated when the anarchists started coming in.

June 20, 2012 – First! Usher found himself at No. 1 on Billboard's Top 200 this week, selling 128,000 copies of Looking 4 Myself, according to Nielsen SoundScan. It's the fourth chart-topping record for the Monsters of Folk fan, though his last record Raymond v Raymond debuted with more than double that figure, at 329,000 copies, in 2010. 2 Through 10: No. 2 belongs to Rush, whose Clockwork Angels gives them their best sales week in a decade with 103,000 copies sold. Adele's 21 falls from last week's No. 1 to No. 3 with 63,000, while country singer Josh Turner takes No. 4 with the debut of Punching Bag, his fourth Top 10 album. No. 5 is buzzy Brit singer-songwriter Ed Sheeran, whose full-length + makes its U.S.