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DEPARTMENTS
MAY 2009

14 CONTRIBUTORS
18 EDITOR’S LET TER
20 FEEDBACK
24 SOUNDCHECK

31 NOISE The Inquisition: Duff McKagan In My Room: Grandmaster Flash Listening In: Mindy Kaling What You Need: Speakers and headphones Breaking Out: Black Joe Lewis & the Honeybears, Fight Like Apes, and Manchester Orchestra The SPIN Mix: Songs you must hear now! Plus: Hair metal invades Broadway, Art Brut’s album recipe, anatomy of an audience, the SPIN 20, and the new queens of British synth-pop

83 REVIEWS Music: Yeah Yeah Yeahs’ It’s Blitz!, Grizzly Bear’s Veckatimest, Art Brut’s Art Brut vs. Satan, St. Vincent’s Actor, Doom’s Born Like This, Asher Roth’s I Love College, and dozens more! Plus: Reissues and essential frat rock. Live: Antony Hegarty (along with the Johnsons) leaves his heart at San Francisco’s Noise Pop Festival. Movies: The Soloist, Tyson, Management, Rudo y Cursi, and Notorious Games: How downloadable games are changing the face of an art form.

“THERE IS SOMETHING EXTREMELY LIBERATING

100 ENCORE A look back at SPIN’s May 1994 cover princess, the reliably unreliable Courtney Love.

ABOUT THROWING PUNCHES AT EACH OTHER.”

—Fight Like Apes’ MayKay Geraghty, page 44

LILI FORBERG

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