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

Why rock videos have gotten raunchy again; Human Giant say yes to threesomes; Be Your Own Pet let us into their rec room; Moby on nerds, haters, and stealing his own music; the Honor Roll; Asia Argento digs Fox News and Fassbinder; grizzled vets the Gutter Twins drink to the present; the Spin 20. PLUS: Switches, Laura Marling, and Airbourne are Breaking Out.

118 Rock City
Cincinnati has much more to
its rock’n’roll pedigree than Dr.
Johnny Fever and Venus Flytrap.
120 The Hidden Track

Are one-album stands better than long-term relationships?

BY JEFF GORDINIER

REVIEWS
95 CDs
R. E.M.’s Accelerate, the Gutter
Twins’ Saturnalia, the Mountain
Goats’ Heretic Pride, the
Raveonettes’ Lust Lust Lust,

Del the Funky Homosapien’s 11th Hour, Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks’ Real Emotional Trash, Joe Budden’s Mood Muzik III, and dozens more! PLUS: Reissues and essential rockabilly.

110 Movies

The Bank Job, Snow Angels, Paranoid Park, and Boarding Gate

“t^I_ro^d _weacs^o_noeⁿ_trl^’_dl^ttⁿ _loso^e _n,n^e _gbs^d _euvto_iIf_ty.”

LAURA MARLING, PAGE 54

112 Games
MP3 players attempt to get their
game on.
114 Live

Radiohead blitz London; Brit wit Kate Nash brings her granny dresses to L.A.

CLARE SHILLAND