June 28, 2012 – A few weeks after dropping a dubstep bomb on an album teaser, alerting fans they'd sort of be following in the footsteps of Korn on their forthcoming sixth studio LP The 2nd Law, Muse have confirmed there will be wub on the record — but analog wub. "We've basically tried to do what Rage Against the Machine did with hip-hop in the 1990s and take a bit of the electronic world and dubstep and play it with real instruments," frontman Matt Bellamy explained in an interview with BBC Radio 1 (via NME), adding that "the album's got lots of different faces," but assuring fans that "there's only one track like that." Whether or not that's a good thing has to do with whether you've ever said "I like all kinds of music," because Bellamy also shared that there will be a "jazzy brass number" and a few tracks that are "quite minimal." Muse? Minimal?

June 28, 2012 – Yesterday was the kind of day you could find veteran MC El-P collaborating with a Jedi-hooded Zola Jesus on one late-night show, and LMFAO spitting a ridiculous tune about spin class on another.

June 27, 2012 – Muse's official 2012 Olympic Games theme "Survival" arrived today via BBC Radio. Shockingly (or not, given the Queen will probably be in attendance at some point), the five-minute song boasts none of the dubstep gewgaws we heard in the trailer for their forthcoming sixth record, The 2nd Law. It is, however, as grand and spectral as you'd expect a Muse song accompanying a massive international athletic competition might be. After two minutes of orchestral throat-clearing — featuring allusions to British musical theatre overtures and a Ben Foldsy a cappella bit — Muse move into a sweeping verse featuring lots of victory terminology ("I'm gonna win / yes, I'm gonna win!" "I won't give in!" "Vengeance is mine!").

June 27, 2012 – Stateside Little Monsters, you've been given notice — Lady Gaga was so impressed with how many super-fans were in her audience last night in Melbourne that she debuted a brand-new, unreleased song for them, according to Buzzfeed. "When we did [the] Monster's Ball [North American tour], there would be five or maybe ten kids that would come to, like, 20 shows in a row in America," she tells them in the video below.

June 27, 2012 – First! In news that will shock no life form with a pulse, Justin Bieber's Believe nabs the biggest debut sales week of the year, with 374,000 copies sold per Nielsen SoundScan easily giving him a No. 1 atop the Billboard 200. Sorry, Madonna fans, that does mean he also beat out MDNA's 359,000-copy first week. 2 Through 10: Nos. 2, 3, and 4 all belong to debuts as well, with Kenny Chesney's Welcome to the Fishbowl (193,000), Fiona Apple's marvelously joyful The Idler Wheel... (72,000), and Smashing Pumpkins' better-than-the-real-world Oceania (54,000) lining up in that order. The eclectic trio mercifully staves off the Rock of Ages soundtrack, which comes in at No. 5 with 49,000 copies after last week's No. 9 spot (and the week before's No. 15) and beats out the second week of Usher's Monsters of Folk-inspired Looking 4 Myself, which takes No. 6 with 48,000.

June 27, 2012 – Mitch Winehouse's memoir Amy, My Daughter arrives tomorrow, shortly before the one-year anniversary of the British singer's death. Passages available to the press last week indicated the book isn't kind to his daughter's ex-husband Blake Fielder-Civil (a.k.a. Blake Incarcerated). Now Rolling Stone has provided a lengthier excerpt that explores the star's creative processes. Mitch Winehouse writes about how his daughter's beehive hairstyle was adapted from "some of the Hispanic women she'd seen in Miami" and how she picked up vintage girl-group vinyl records in London's Camden market for inspiration.

June 26, 2012 – You know what they say about a southern California surf contest without a free concert series to go with it — well, they don't actually say anything, but if they did, we'd think they'd say, "It's bound to be less awesome!" Therefore we're happy to announce the lineup that will accompany Nike's U.S. Open of Surfing, which goes down July 28 through August 5 in Huntington Beach. This year's shows will feature SPIN's very own Outside Issue cover stars, Best Coast, TV on the Radio, and Grouplove during three competition days. SoCal resident or not, don't worry if you can't get the vacation days — the whole thing is going to be live-streamed, just like MGMT's performance was last year. The series kicks off August 1 from 4:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m.

June 26, 2012 – The first thing noise-rap trio Death Grips did after they canceled all their tour dates early last month (in order to "complete our next album NO LOVE [sic]," they wrote) was drop a dizzying laundromat adventure in the form of a video treatment for "Hustle Bones", a week after the announcement. The thing looks like it took about three hours to toss together, so it should come as no surprise that the next cut off their ridiculously excellent major label debut, Money Store to get a self-directed clip, "Double Helix," which they just posted to their Facebook and Twitter accounts, boasts a similarly low-maintenance (yet equally retina-punching) aesthetic.

June 26, 2012 – The Internet sort of freaked out last week when A$AP Rocky told 16Bars.tv that he was going to be playing a JFK-esque figure in Lana Del Rey's upcoming video for her Born to Die cut "National Anthem," and now the pair seem intent on riding that wave of excitement as hard as possible, dropping a trailer for the clip that is actually four seconds longer than the song itself (via Pitchfork). The video's director, Anthony Mandler, must not have had to do much brainstorming outside of Del Rey's own creative dictations, because the trailer, which includes the entire song and supposedly features the singer as Jackie Kennedy/O (all we see is her much-lampooned hair-fidgeting over and over for three minutes and 55 seconds, so who knows if she's actually portraying the ex-First Lady), oozes the LDR aesthetic, repeating the same found-footage-style clips — though this time decidedly more t

June 26, 2012 – 50 Cent may be getting richer and richer, but he isn't investing much cash in his latest video, the ironically simple clip for The Lost Tape's "Complicated." He's pretty content chilling on the couch, trying on a few of his many fitted hats and getting ready to go out the way only Fiddy could — by downing one of his own branded energy shots, considering his baseball bat, and busting his bulletproof vest out of the wall (via Rap Radar). The video may be low-key, but reality was far more harsh for the rapper at approximately 3 a.m. this morning. Just hours after the video dropped, his (bulletproof) SUV was rear-ended by a Mack truck on New York's Long Island Expressway and 50, along with his driver, was hospitalized for the second time this month (the last time it was for food poisoning). He's since been released, and as XXL reports, he's doing fine.