Even at 57, Chrissie Hynde has still got it. After three decades, one of the Pretenders’ two remaining original members (drummer Martin Chambers is the other one) has held onto her provocative snarl and influential biker chick style.

Blondie and Pat Benatar will have a little competition on the touring circuit this summer.

"You get the book?" Cat Power asked between songs Thursday night at Brooklyn's 150-person-capacity Union Pool, where her friend William Van Meter, a sometime SPIN contributor, celebrated the release of his new book, Bluegrass: A True Story of Murder in Kentucky.

Here's a rundown of the essential albums available online and in record stores this week:

These days, rumors of artist collaborations start more quickly than you can say, "The lead singer of Hootie and the Blowfish has the No. 1 Country album." Below, we weed through the reports to set the record straight.

Less than a year after releasing Jukebox, the sequel to 2000's classic The Covers Record, songstress Chan Marshall, a.k.a. Cat Power, is ready to give fans yet another sample of her eclectic musical tastes with Dark End of the Street, a new six-track cover EP.