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The“Buddy Holly” Story
Code Monkeys, the critically acclaimed hit show Wired
Magazine hails as “veering into the wildly surreal,” returns
to G4 with an all new season. This smash hit comedy of 8-bit
proportions comes from one of the twisted minds behind Crank
Yankers and the creator of Minoriteam. Code Monkeys,
Season 2 premieres June 1st 7PM ET.
Only on G4.
www.g4tv.com/codemonkeys
The Honda Civic Tour – a national music concert tour
offering a chance to win a Honda Civic Hybrid customized and
autographed by the headlining act – kicks off its eighth
year this spring with platinum-selling band
Panic At The Disco along for the ride.
SOMETIMES WHEN PEOPLE LEARN that I edit a music magazine, they want to know what I most like to listen to. The first answer I give them is “Everything” (which is true). After their fifth “No, really,” I say that’s like asking which of my two French bulldogs is my favorite. But then I usually relent and say, “Okay, stuff with heavy guitars, hummable melodies, and insidious choruses.” Power pop, if we have to put a label on it—what the likes of Cheap Trick, XTC, Fountains of Wayne, the New Pornographers, and Switches have trafficked in so wonderfully. And few bands have done more to reconnect this perennially unfashionable subgenre to the mainstream than Weezer, whose mastery of the offbeat sing-along (go play “Buddy Holly” or “Dope Nose” right now) has made them arena-filling modern-rock superstars. For this month’s cover story, Spin deputy editor Steve Kandell hit Weezer’s home turf in L.A. to get the inside story on their new album and to revisit with frontman Rivers Cuomo, whose music seems to be getting stranger as his personal life gets, relatively speaking, more normal.
This rest of the issue offers a little bit of everything else. Veteran Newsweek editor Joseph Contreras reports from Mexico on the recent wave of violence that has struck the emo community there. Will Hermes spends time with influential composer Philip Glass, while Spin music editor Charles Aaron grills the Roots’ outspoken drummer, ?uestlove. And what is it about the letters Y, M, C, and A that makes a stadium full of baseball fans—or a lido deck full of senior citizens, for that matter—break out in a semaphore-style dance? Sportswriter
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