Kanye West collaborates with Steve Albini, Cheap Trick

That's right.

Unfortunately, if the sensational headline had you wondering what it would sound like to hear our issue 36 cover artist rapping over a live rendition of "Surrender" with Albini on the board (answer: it would sound like your head exploding), you're out of luck. Rather, thanks to those never-resting interweb-slingers over at The Daily Swarm, the above Grammy photo (squint hard!) is the actual result. Oh, and there are some other folks there as well, including president of the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences, Neil Portnow, Chicago-based DJ duo, Flosstradamus, dude from the Plain White T's and more.

All right, so it's not exactly news, but isn't it at least kind of awesome?

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