OCTOBER 2008
“I don’t want
to fade out.
I’d rather blow up.”

GIRL TALK’S GREGG GILLIS, PAGE 42

DEPARTMENTS
22 Contributors
24 Editor’s Letter
26 Soundcheck
32 Feedback
34 The Spin Mix
37 Noise

Asher Roth, rap’s next great white hope; a lesson in proper screaming technique; the Spin 20; Girl Talk’s Gregg Gillis samples the Inquisition; the model/rocker exchange, charted; Santogold opens up her living room; Shirley Manson on Siouxsie Sioux and the San Antonio Spurs. PLUS: The Knux, Ra Ra Riot, and the Enemy UK are Breaking Out.

126 Rock City

Spin’s guide to Houston, from Ceeplus Bad Knives to ZZ Top.

128 The Hidden Track

When the band is really just an excuse to meet baseball players. BY ROB CARPENTER

120 Movies

Filth and Wisdom, Religulous, Rachel Getting Married, and RocknRolla

122 Games

The increasingly similar Guitar Hero: World Tour and Rock Band 2 battle for video game supremacy.

REVIEWS
101 CDs

TV on the Radio’s Dear Science, Oasis’ Dig Out Your Soul, Of Montreal’s Skeletal Lamping, Jenny Lewis’ Acid Tongue, Kings of Leon’s Only by the Night, Cold War Kids’ Loyalty to Loyalty, Gym Class Heroes’ The Quilt, and dozens more! PLUS: Reissues and essential female rap.

124 Live

New Jersey’s All Points West festival: more than just a huge, beer-restricted Radiohead concert?

JIMM Y FON TAINE