D EPARTMENTS
JUNE 2008
12 Contributors
16 Editor’s Letter
20 Publisher’s Letter
22 Soundcheck
30 The Spin Mix
32 Feedback
35 Noise

Pop stars invade Kuwait; Disturbed’s unlikeliest fans; celebs chime in on the bands that jacked their names; The Wackness’ Olivia Thirlby on Joanna Newsom and Happy Gilmore; Columbus, Ohio’s burgeoning shitgaze scene; sneaking into Lil Mama’s Brooklyn bedroom; Neil Diamond faces the Inquisition, abuses the third person; the Honor Roll. PLUS: The Chapin Sisters, the Ting Tings, and the Little Ones are Breaking Out.

“There’s something
healing about taking
the darkest s--t inside
you and putting it in
a pretty package.”

THE CHAPIN SISTERS’
JESSICA CRAVEN, PAGE 52
126 Rock City
Spin’s guide to America’s most
resilient musical hotbed, the
newly recovering New Orleans.
128 The Hidden Track
Keith Richards, my buddy,
my pal. BY MIKE EDISON
R EVIEWS
103 CDs

My Morning Jacket’s Evil Urges, Lil Mama’s Voice of the Young People, Spiritualized’s Songs in A&E, the Raconteurs’ Consolers of the Lonely, Santogold’s Santogold, Islands’ Arm’s Way, Hercules and Love Affair’s Hercules and Love Affair, and dozens more! PLUS: Reissues and essential Europop.

120 Movies
Postal, The Promotion, Mongol,
and My Winnipeg
122 Games

This best of the summer’s movie/game tie-ins.

124 Live

Jay-Z and Mary J. Blige keep it real (simple) in Miami.

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