DEPARTMENTS
16 Editor’s Letter
18 Contributors
24 Soundcheck
30 The Spin Mix
32 Feedback
35 Noise

The selling of the Ramones; the Whitest Kids U’ Know on the whitest music they know; the Kills vs. the Raveonettes; Jack Johnson submits to the Inquisition; what’s inside Sia’s loft; the return of Eurodisco; what Cloverfield’s Lizzy Caplan does for fun; the

FEBRUARY 2008

Spin 20; crashing the Black Lips’ after-party; the Honor Roll.

102 Rock City

Be a hero, not a hoser, with Spin’s guide to Toronto.

104 The Hidden Track

Breaking up is easy to do when you’ve got lyrics from 69 songs. BY DANA ADAM SHAPIRO

REVIEWS
91 CDs

Vampire Weekend’s Vampire Weekend, Hot Chip’s Made in the Dark, Beans’ Thorns,

Drive-By Truckers’ Brighter Than Creation’s Dark, Rivers Cuomo’s Alone, Nada Surf’s Lucky, Kate Nash’s Made of Bricks, Bob Mould’s District Line, Xiu Xiu’s Women as Lovers, and dozens more! PLUS: Reissues and essential disco.

99 Movies

Charlie Bartlett, Teeth, In Bruges, and Vince Vaughn’s Wild West Comedy Show

100 Live

The Led Zeppelin reunion rocks and rolls London.

“We’re like an old
married couple.”

ALISON “VV” MOSSHART OF THE KILLS, PAGE 38

KENNE TH CAPPELLO