This Week In Music, we preview some songs by Big Sean, Atlas Genius, Fun, Lana Del Rey, and Common. We’ve also added two new features: one that takes a look at some of the most important music news you may have missed; the other that looks forward at some upcoming music hotness. As always, don’t forget to vote for your favorite Song of the Week in our poll at the bottom.

Last week, we had a tie between And It Spread by The Avett Brothers and Drake’s Crew Love. Just goes to show how diverse our listening palate’s are at COED. In this week’s edition of Al Jones’ SOTW, we feature tracks from Janelle Monae, Wild Flag, Chris Brown, Chiddy Bang, and Blitzen Trapper. Take a listen then vote for your favorite after the jump!

Bonnaroo 2011 kicked off yesterday, so to celebrate another stellar festival in Manchester, Tennessee, our amigos at RCRD LBL have delivered onto us their Bonnaroo 2011 playlist. From massive headliners such as Lil Wayne and Arcade Fire to indie favorites like Sleigh Bells, Wavves and Deerhunter, they’ve prepared this special Bonnaroo playlist from their catalog that includes exclusive remixes, fan favorites and everything in between to fully experience the festival’s deep bill. Check out 24 awesome tracks after the jump.

The 53rd Annual Grammy Awards took place last night. Lady Antebellum and Arcade Fire took home Record of the Year and Album of the Year respectively last night while Eminem, Lady Gaga, Bruno Mars, Train, The Black Keys, and Rihanna also took home hardware. There were some great performances – most notably Cee-Lo‘s peacock outfit worn during his Muppets rendition of “F*** You” featuring Gwyneth Paltrow and Eminem’s mash-up of Love the Way You Lie featuring Rihanna and Adam Levine blended with I Need a Doctor featuring Skylar Grey and Dr. Dre (one of our Songs of the Week). The ladies looked lovely – with the exception of Lady Gaga who looked like the devil’s daughter with pointy shoulders and mini-horns cropping up on her forehead. See pics of the gorgeous girls of the Grammys after the jump!

It’s that time of year again, when we look back on the year and recount our favorite memories. Our favorite movies, our favorite TV shows, and even our favorite music, and this year, we had a lot of great albums. But don’t worry, I won’t be going on and on about how great the new Kanye album is, nor will try and debate with you Pinkerton loving elitists how great the new Weezer albums were because it’d be like talking to a brick wall. What I will do, however, is tell you about the 30 best albums from this year you need to hear.

Getting tired of googling the same old chicks? Yeah, us too. Which is why we were so psyched to see the release of Rolling Stone‘s “Hot List 2008.” We highly recommend you check out the whole article, which hightlights the upcoming trends of the new year. But to make things easier on you, we’ve condensed the list down to what really ma… Click to read more