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

Vinyl makes a big comeback;

Ex Models bring Brooklyn noise to China; Scarlett Johansson on singing Tom Waits; The Office’s Ed Helms on Van Halen worship and Ayn Rand; neo-Victorian fashion plates; the Spin 20; poking around Mates of State’s Connecticut home. PLUS: Tokyo Police Club, Mickey Factz, and the Long Blondes are Breaking Out.

118 Rock City

Take Spin’s tour through the San Diego Zoo…of rock! (Do not feed the Locust.)

120 The Hidden Track Remembering the man who invented Christian rock.

BY ANDREW BEAUJON

REVIEWS
93 CDs

Portishead’s Third, Death Cab for Cutie’s Narrow Stairs, the Roots’ Rising Down, the Last Shadow Puppets’ The Age of the Understatement, Duffy’s Rockferry, No Age’s Nouns, Jamie Lidell’s Jim, and dozens more! PLUS: Reissues and essential comedy.

112 Movies

The Fall, The Children of Huang Shi, Mister Lonely, and Surfwise

114 Games

Is the new Wii Fit a game that’s actually good for you?

“I’d like to think I’m everything Afrika Bambaataa would’ve envisioned hip-hop to be in 2008.”

MICKE Y FAC TZ, PAGE 52

116 Live

Five Chicago nights, Wilco’s entire catalog

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