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Winter 2006

Cover story: Cat Power: Chan Marshall sank to the bottom and has risen up. Way up. Meet the new queen of indie rock.

Announcing the winners of our 4th annual Hottt List, including Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Morrissey, Sufjan Stevens, Toni Collette, and Kill Rock Stars Records

INTERVIEWS

Joanna Newsom • Regina Spektor • Peaches • Brazilian Girls • Love is All • Matt & Kim • The Blow • The Shins • Franz Ferdinand's Alex Kapranos dishes on his first book, Sound Bites • Fur screenwriter Erin Cressida Wilson • St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves author Karen Russell

PLUS

* Record Shopping with Ladytron

* Mad Lit with Mary Gaitskill

* Meet the winners of our 2nd annual Holiday Craft-off Contest

* Le Tigre’s Johanna Fateman opens Seagull salon

* R.I.P. Sandy West: The Runaways' drummer rocked hard and died quietly

* Scene & Unheard: Brighton, England

* "Type Dirty to Me: My job as a spammer"

* "Me So Horny: A scientific experiment in aphrodisiacs"

* How to get a book deal

* Courtney Love's "Dirty Blonde" book

* Cooking with Veruca Salt

* Style Idol: the men of Fred Flare

* Sounds: reviews of new music by Lady Sovereign, Miho Hatori, Isobel Campbell, Lily Allen, and the Slits

Lead Articles

Dark Meat blows headliners out of the water in Austin

May 15, 2008, at the Mohawk

By Erik Adams

Houston noisemakers Indian Jewelry deliver prosperity to the masses with Free Gold!

By Camella Lobo

Dark Meat waits for cabs to the Mohawk Place in Buffalo

Emily Armond’s Tour Diary, Part 3

Dark Meat finds itself busless and penniless on the Great Plains

By Emily Armond

Winter 2006

Other Stories in this Issue

Music

Features

Chan Marshall sank to the bottom and has risen up. Way up. Meet the new queen of indie rock.

Major label–turned-independent vocalist and Peeping Tom backup singer Imani Coppola takes a moment to wind down before hitting the road again

Runaways’ drummer lives hard, rocks harder, and dies quietly

The British quartet gets Physical on their vinyl shopping spree

The Battle Of Mice and Made Out Of Babies singer opens up about her intense stage persona and the difficulties of working with exes

Garden State's favorite band winces the hype away on their forthcoming

With her second album, Ys, the 20-something delivers one of the year’s most artistic albums. She’s made a name for herself as the mysteriously quirky, fairytale-writing harpist.

The noisy pop stars discuss spontaneity, international success, and the cold Swedish winter

The Brooklyn pop-punk duo knows how to get the party started

With their new album, Paper Television, the Portland duo says they’re just trying to keep it real

The anomaly of an artist talks about the frenzy that is touring and finding her real voice

For those who can handle dirty in their sexy

Sabina Sciubba wants you to make love — not war — to her music

Slim Moon leaves his post as president of the label that helped to launch the careers of Elliott Smith and Sleater-Kinney

We asked various artists to talk about their favorite music, films, and life experiences of 2006. We also asked them to reveal what they’re looking forward to in 2007.

Sounds

Love Travels at Illegal Speeds (Parlophone)

Songbird (Lost Highway)

DIY

Features

Le Tigre’s Johanna Fateman opens a Manhattan salon

The Future of Music Coalition continues its mission of providing critical tools and information for musicians

These women serve up inspiration for aspiring entrepreneurs

Miss Information travel guides give the skinny on any city from ladies in the know

Art & Culture

Reads

The accompanying resource guide to our article lists everything you need to get started — and then some (continued from issue No. 30)

“When I read this book I was happy.” The unedited Mad Lit questionnaire, wherein the legendary short-story writer and novelist opines on the chemical magic of Nabakov's notorious classic.

Strewn with plane crashes, alligators, an d nuns, St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves surveys the lonesome no man's land between childhood and adolescence.

Houghton Mifflin, 272 pages, $23

Franz Ferdinand front man Alex Kapranos writes about his global eating experiences in his first book, Sound Bites

Film

The screenwriter presents an untraditional biopic of photographer Diane Arbus with Fur

The actress makes her screen debut — and Peter O'Toole's day — in the excellently named Venus

The director discusses Old Joy and the debate over whether Hollywood is screwing over women

Documentary examines the interconnected causes for mass murders Juarez women

Art

Learn how to replace your Salvation Army macramé work with something more pleasing to your eye — and your wallet

Lead Articles

May 15, 2008, at the Mohawk

Dark Meat finds itself busless and penniless on the Great Plains

Most Popular Articles

May 2-4, 2008, in Tom Lee Park

Not just another fashion doll, Anna Sui talks about bringing a little bit of soul and a lot of common sense to the global market

Artist and creator of Stitchery & Mexiphemera