Summer 2003
COVER STORY: "Phair Game": Exiled from Chicago and its “seriously-hardcore-music-critic-type” community, Liz Phair explains why it’s taken five years to release an album and why it’s a bitch to be an adult.
ADDITIONAL FEATURES: White Stripes • Yo La Tengo • The Gossip • Trachtenberg Family Slideshow Players • Nina Nastasia • Goldfrapp • Miz-Korona (of 8 Mile) • Monade • All Girl Summer Fun Band • Evan Dando (for "Penus") • Glass Candy and the Shattered Theatre • Sweet Heat • The Children's Hour • Natacha Atlas • Lisa Germano • The Sounds • Les Nubians • Desparately Seeking Susan director Susan Seidelman • author ZZ Packer • skateboarder Peggy Oki
PLUS: Venus readers & writers dish on the best sex they've ever had • "I've Got the Picnic Disease" summer fashion • "R.I.P. Nina Simone" • previously unpublished fiction by Shelley Jackson • loads of reviews (Cramps, Sonic Youth, Dressy Bessy, New Pornographers, Yoshimi & Yuka, T-Love, Essential Logic, Essex Green, and many others) • Rock Camp For Girls • "About Place" feature covering big-time lady record collectors
Issue #29
