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“NEXT TO MUSIC AND CHAMPAGNE, COMEDY CONSUMES OUR LIVES.” —Grand Duchy’s Violet Clark, page 38

JOHN CLARK

DEPARTMENTS
JUNE 2009
18 CONTRIBUTORS
20 EDI TOR’S LE T TER
22 FEEDBACK
26 SOUNDCHECK

33 NOISE
In My Room: Grand Duchy
(featuring Black Francis)
The Inquisition: David Johansen
What You Need: Floral patterns
are in bloom.
Breaking Out: Emily Wells, the
Pains of Being Pure at Heart, and
Florence and the Machine
The SPIN Mix: Songs you must
hear now!
Plus: Rap stars on their summer
movies, great gig posters, the
SPIN 20, and whatever happened to
takraw?

85 REVIEWS
Music: Green Day’s 21st Century
Breakdown, Mos Def’s The Ecstatic,
Bob Dylan’s Together Through Life,
the Mars Volta’s Octahedron, Jarvis
Cocker’s Further Complications,
Sonic Youth’s The Eternal, Marilyn
Manson’s The High End of Low, and
dozens more!
Live: Prince runs an L.A. marathon—
one night, three venues.
Movies: Away We Go, The Girlfriend
Experience, Moon, The Hangover,
and Pansy Division: Life in a Gay
Rock Band
Games: In the perfect suburbia of
Sims 3, there’s no such thing as a
recession.

108 ENCORE June 18, 1988: Depeche Mode’s Dave Gahan brings his baby to the Rose Bowl.

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