DEPARTMENTS
12 Publisher’s Letter
18 Contributors
20 Editor’s Letter
22 Soundcheck
28 Feedback
30 The Spin Mix
35 Noise

Answering burning questions about Radiohead’s In Rainbows; Shia LaBeouf goes gangsta; the Spin 20; the varied teachings of Slash’s autobiography; Lil Wayne comes clean about workaholism

DECEMBER 2007

and beef in the Inquisition; bending elbows and talking chaps with Turbonegro; Ellen Page struts her stuff in Media Horde; when good rock stars make bad movies; unearthing the Dragons’ long-lost album; Lupe Fiasco shows us what’s in his room. PLUS: The Virgins, Robyn, and MGMT are Breaking Out.

136 Rock City

Embrace the blues (and punk and hip-hop) with Spin’s guide to Memphis.

140 The Hidden Track

How The Song Remains the Same became a metaphor for the limits of a fan’s devotion. BY BRIAN RAFTERY

REVIEWS
111 CDs

Radiohead’s In Rainbows, Daft Punk’s Alive ²⁰⁰⁷, Alicia Keys’ As I Am, Say Anything’s In Defense of the Genre, Dillinger Escape Plan’s Ire Works, and dozens more! PLUS: Reissues and essential dancehall

130 Movies
Juno, The Butterfly and the Diving Bell, There
Will Be Blood, and Youth Without Youth
134 Live
Of Montreal bring their rococo rock
to Chicago.
“No one would read
my poetry, so I figured
I could put it to music.”
THE VIRGINS’ DONALD CUMMING, PAGE 54