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“IT’S NOT EASY FOR ME TO SAY TO MY DAUGHTER, ‘I DON’T THINK YOU SHOULD GO TO SCHOOL LIKE THAT.’ ” —Martin Gore, page 32
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14 CONTRIBUTORS 18 EDITOR’S LET TER 20 FEEDBACK 22 SOUNDCHECK
29 NOISE The Album Recipe: The Thermals In My Room: Geddy Lee The Inquisition: Depeche Mode’s Martin Gore Breaking Out: Mt. St. Helens Vietnam Band, the Love Language, and the Bird and the Bee The SPIN Mix: Songs you must hear now! Plus: The wacky Scandi sound of skweee makes it to America, the aftermath of the You Tube/Warner Music Group dustup, and Death Row Records goes on the block.
73 REVIEWS Music: U2’s No Line on the Horizon, Mastodon’s Crack the Skye, Lady Sovereign’s Jigsaw, Depeche Mode’s Sounds of the Universe, Peter Doherty’s Grace/Wastelands, Peter Bjorn and John’s Living Thing, and dozens more! Live: Kings of Leon headline Madison Square Garden. Movies: I Love You, Man, plus Sin Nombre, The Informers, Alien Trespass, and Morrissey: From Where He Came to Where He Went Games: Metallica, AC/DC, and the Beatles bring their music to your monitor.
92 ENCORE May 28, 1984: The Cramps frontman Lux Interior remembered
12 APRIL 2009 / WAtch excLusIve vIdeo At sPIN.coM
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