DEPARTMENTS
MARCH 2009
“I REALLY LIKED GARY NUMAN
UNTIL WE STARTED GETTING
COMPARED TO HIM ALL THE TIME.”

—Late of the Pier’s Sam Eastgate, page 34

8 CONTRIBUTORS
12 EDI TOR’S LET TER
14 FEEDBACK
16 SOUNDCHECK
23 NOISE

In My Room: …And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead’s Conrad Keely The Inquisition: Andy Samberg Listening In: Rashida Jones The Album Recipe: Dan Deacon’s Bromst What You Need: Rock-inspired T-shirts Breaking Out: Late of the Pier, Novel, and Wild Light The SPIN Mix: Songs you must hear now! Plus: Josh Schwartz’s new indie-rock Web series, the plight of gay rappers, a Watchmen cheat sheet, new bands’ crazy geography, and the SPIN 20.

75 REVIEWS

Music: The Decemberists’ The Hazards of Love, Neko Case’s Middle Cyclone, Black Lips’ 200 Million Thousand, and dozens more! Plus: reissues and essential goth. Live: Ida Maria drinks up the Viper Room. Movies: Adventureland, Tokyo!, Tokyo Sonata, and Sunshine Cleaning Games: Resident Evil 5

88 ENCORE

March 1978: Joan Jett does an in-store.

BEN RAYNER

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