SPIN.com's Best of the Week
This week, Stone Temple Pilots debuted their new album, Aerosmith reunited for a summer tour, and Kanye dropped a haunting new video. Meanwhile, Thom Yorke's supergroup will hit the road, and Vampire Weekend's guitarist spoke out about his homosexuality and music.
These stories, plus the week's top news, audio/video, and live reviews, below.
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Q&A: Patrick Stump
Patrick Stump is working through an identity crisis.
The 25-year-old is currently living in Los Angeles, recording, producing, and playing all the instruments on his yet-to-be-titled debut solo album, tentatively due this summer. And with Fall Out Boy on hiatus, the Chicago native is free to shed his pop-punk image for ... well, that's the problem -- he's not entirely sure.
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SPIN.com's Best of the Week
This week, Fall Out Boy members discussed the band's uncertain future, Jay Reatard's death was ruled a drug overdose, and Francis Bean Cobain made her musical debut. Meanwhile, Steven Tyler threatened to sue his Aerosmith bandmates, and Lost actress Emilie de Ravin shared what's on her iPod.
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Update: Fall Out Boy Downplay Breakup Chatter
FIRST LISTEN: 'Alice in Wonderland' Soundtrack!
Franz Ferdinand, Wolfmother, Avril Lavigne, Owl City, and Pete Wentz and Mark Hoppus, among others, have re-imagined songs from the 1951 movie classic Alice in Wonderland for Tim Burton's psychedelic remake of the Disney film, in theatres March 5. The star-studded soundtrack drops March 2 -- but you can preview most songs right now!
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Breaking: More Fall Out Boy Fallout
Tuesday afternoon, in a previously scheduled interview, Fall Out Boy frontman Patrick Stump responded to bassist Pete Wentz' recent Twitter comments about the uncertain future of the Chicago-based band, telling SPIN.com: "I'm not in Fall Out Boy right now... Whether we play again or not, I don't know."


