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“I love love. That
should be on
my gravestone.”

JENS LEKMAN, PAGE 42

JANUARY 2008

DEPARTMENTS

8 Editor’s Letter

10 Contributors

12 Feedback

16 Soundcheck

22 The Spin Mix

25 Noise

A new wave of musicians rock comic books; Big Boi goes ballet; John C. Reilly answers hard for the Inquisition; the Honor Roll; Dean and Gene Ween show us their ramshackle studio; Kat Von D has Beethoven and Kylie Minogue in her Media Horde; the Chromeo after-party. PLUS: Jens Lekman, the Whigs, and Dengue Fever are Breaking Out.

110 Rock City

J.R. and JFK both got shot there, but the music scene in Dallas is alive and bucking like a bronco.

112 The Hidden Track Once the New Year’s party is over, there’s plenty left to sweep up.

REVIEWS
95 CDs

Cat Power’s Jukebox, Gorillaz’s D-Sides, Magnetic Fields’ Distortion, the Mars Volta’s The Bedlam in Goliath, Lupe Fiasco’s The Cool, and dozens more! PLUS: Reissues and essential Madchester.

106 Movies

Be Kind Rewind, Persepolis, How to Rob a Bank, and The Killing of John Lennon

108 Live

The Sex Pistols bring their revived anarchy to L.A.

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