October 1, 2012 – Death Grips leaked their second major label album, 'NO LOVE DEEP WEB' today. Here, five SPIN editors give their hasty and completely impulsive opinions...Christopher R. WeingartenTheir major label debut, The Money Store (released in, what, April?), was a manic nic-fit of chatter-sputter/jitter-splatter, but lacked the aggy energy of the Exmilitary mixtape because they couldn't legally/financially sample anything once they got scooped by a major label. Well, this album is the perfect workaround, all electronic drums and cyberfuck gnashnoise somewhere between The Bug and Cannibal Ox and David Guetta screwdriver-gouging a Speak N Spell. More than anything its bassgrind scuzzbluster is — in sound and Windows 95 vision alike — like M.I.A.'s much maligned /\/\ /\ Y /\: all noises stretched like dirty Silly Putty...but this time you can actually dance to it (slam...

October 1, 2012 – We were so busy bitching about how a new Bat for Lashes song sounds like Gotye, we didn't even bother realizing there was a mini-controversy brewing about how British boy band One Direction's new single "Live While We're Young" apes the guitar riff from the Clash's "Should I Stay or Should I Go." Fortunately, there is an entire industry devoted to finding out whether Liam Payne has shaved his head and Harry Styles is a "bonking machine," so now we have evidence these barely out-of-their-teens pop stars are aware that the Clash is a band that once existed.The BBC queried the crew about the song's resemblance. And they responded:"I assume it must be quite difficult to do a unique riff now because there have been so many songs — surely there's only so many riffs you can pull out?" Louis Tomlinson said. "It was kind of on purpose, though. It's a great riff, so…," added Styles.

September 30, 2012 – Chatter about Jack White's abbreviated show at New York's Radio City Music Hall last night has officially lasted longer than the concert itself. White played a 12-song set before reportedly abruptly leaving the stage (by comparison, the night prior in Boston, he performed 20 songs, which seems to be the average on his Blunderbuss tour). As the New York Observer reports, fans did not react well, chanting, "Fuck Jack White!," attempting to return merch, and assembling near the backstage exit to protest.

September 28, 2012 – If you watched the new guns'n'Gyllenhaal flick End of Watch this week you may have heard the voice of Josh Homme blessing the end credits. Well, now you can hear it in the privacy of your own home without a Kargaga account. The solo track, "Nobody to Love," co-written with Days composer Dave Sardy, is now on the internet! The verses sound like a little like the doom-dance stuff on the new album by QOTSA pal Mark Lanegan, and the chorus is like a Desert Session gone full sandstorm. Hope this tides you over until that sixth QOTSA album. Hear it now!

September 28, 2012 – Interpol's 2002 debut Turn on the Bright Lights didn't materialize overnight. "We had waited close to five years for the opportunity to record an album," guitarist Daniel Kessler writes in a new message to fans. "We never had any expectations for how the album would be received. We just wanted to present our music as an album to anyone who would be open to hearing it."We'll all be hearing the beautifully atmospheric disc again very soon: On November 19, Matador is celebrating the LP's 10th birthday with an anniversary edition that includes the full remastered album, a hardcover book featuring previously unseen photos, a DVD, and a bonus disc of demos and B-sides. "We spent a good deal of time this past year digging through our archives and asking others to dig through theirs in the hopes of uncovering some forgotten material," Kessler writes.

September 26, 2012 – There is a moment during every Madonna show on her MDNA tour when she pauses and sips from a water bottle via a thin red straw, beret atop her head, and delivers a little monologue. Past subjects have included Pussy Riot, Lady Gaga, and world peace. Two days ago in Washington, D.C., the topic turned to the election. "Y'all better vote for fucking Obama, okay?" Madonna announced, pausing for a dramatic sip. "For better or for worse, we have a black Muslim in the White House."What happened here? Was Madonna honestly misinformed about President Obama's religion? Was she mocking clueless voters who think he is a Muslim? Was she high on MNDA?The answer, per the Queen of Pop today: "I was being ironic onstage. Yes, I know Obama is not a Muslim — though I know that plenty of people in this country think he is. And what if he were?

September 26, 2012 – Ever-buzzy grave-wavers Crystal Castles are coming back on November 5 with their third album, (III). Though producer half Ethan Kath insisted the duo adhere to a strict "no computers" rule while writing and later recording in both Berlin and Warsaw, the result isn't any less chilling, as heard on first taste "Plague," and newly leaked cut "Wrath of God." Three very propulsive minutes of goth atmospherics, the latter is streaming below. 

September 25, 2012 – Tegan and Sara have given you a chance to listen to "Closer," the first single off their January album Heartthrob. But perhaps you'd like to hear more of their self-described "poppiest ever album"? Perhaps on a tour bus... with Tegan and Sara?This contest will likely appeal to you, then! Sonos Presents Get Closer to Tegan and Sara offers fans a chance to meet up with the duo on tour, hop aboard their Sonos-outfitted bus, nab an exclusive early listen to the record, and then see the group open for the Black Keys.Head to Tegan and Sara's website to enter; the band will hang with winning fans starting at their October 1 date in Fresno, California, through their October 10 show in Las Cruces, New Mexico. Victors will have to be over 13 years old and pay their own way to the show.

September 25, 2012 – In perhaps the most anti-Kanye move in the history of award receiving, when Feist's Metals was named the winner of the 2012 Polaris Music Prize — a Canadian honor for recorded music that comes with $30,000 — last night, the singer/songwriter first hid under her table, then announced it was her "worst fear."According to the CBC, 36-year-old Leslie Feist eventually made her way the podium to receive a comically oversized check, where she said, "You’d think from a lifetime of terrible speeches I would remember at one point to write something down, but I never do because it seems presumptuous to prepare." (The statement included in the official press release about the event is equally charming: "Polaris is asking me for a quote... I haven't had a second to consider how to talk about this yet, but what I want to say is thank you to the people who really listened to my record.

September 23, 2012 – Two days after a profanity-laden rant onstage at Clear Channel's iHeartRadio festival in Las Vegas, Green Day frontman Billie Joe Armstrong has entered rehab. A statement posted on the band's Facebook page reads:"Billie Joe is seeking treatment for substance abuse. We would like everyone to know that our set was not cut short by Clear Channel and to apologize to those we offended at the iHeartRadio Festival in Las Vegas. We regretfully must postpone some of our upcoming promotional appearances."Green Day performed on the first of the fest's two days alongside Rihanna, Lil Wayne, No Doubt, Usher, Miranda Lambert, Bon Jovi, Swedish House Mafia, Jason Aldean, and Megan & Liz.