DEPARTMENTS
16 Contributors
18 Editor’s Letter
21 President’s Letter
22 Soundcheck
28 The Spin Mix
30 Feedback
33 Noise

A guide to 2008’s best music

movies; Jena Malone on being green

and loving Project Runway; in

Colin Meloy’s room (no, it’s not a

whaling ship’s cabin); the Spin 20;

Panic at the Disco’s Ryan Ross on

discovering the Beatles and losing

the !; getting rowdy with Dropkick

Murphys; the Honor Roll. PLUS:

Estelle, These New Puritans, and

Liam Finn are Breaking Out.

114 Rock City

Spin’s guide to Tulsa, Oklahoma, the

dusty birthplace of Dfest, yield signs,

and cocaine (the song, that is).

116 The Hidden Track

What’s so sexy about guitars?

BY DAVID HAJDU

REVIEWS
“We’re not one of
those bands that
has blow-dryers
backstage.”

THESE NE W PURI TANS’

GEORGE BARNE T T, PAGE 52

91 CDs

Gnarls Barkley’s The Odd Couple,

Panic at the Disco’s Pretty. Odd.,

the Dirtbombs’ We Have You

Surrounded, Nick Cave and the

Bad Seeds’ Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!!,

Supergrass’ Diamond Hoo Ha,

Tapes ’n Tapes’ Walk It Off, and

dozens more! PLUS: Reissues and

essential instrumental rock.

108 Games

Does Grand Theft Auto IV

have anything to add to the

video-game-violence debate?

110 Movies

Redbelt, Flawless, My Blueberry

Nights, and The Life Before Her Eyes

112 Live

MGM T and Yeasayer take their

Brooklyn-indie road show to Chicago.