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Summer 2007
Björk

Cover story: Björk: Although she doesn’t consider Volta a political album nor herself a feminist, we’re certain about this: Björk is one of the most creative, innovative artists of our time. How does the Icelandic avant-gardist remain a pop icon? Because people yearn to understand her.

INTERVIEWS

Tori Amos • Patti Smith answers Venus Zine readers' questions • Spoon • Noisettes • Lavender Diamond • St. Vincent • Pipettes • Oscar-winning film editor Thelma Schoonmaker • author Lydia Davis • DIY designer Susan Cianciolo

PLUS

* Venus Zine’s Guide to Summer: The who, what, and when on our favorite festivals

* Summer DIY projects: Convert your old yoga pants into a bikini; turn a water bottle into a fan; make fizzy bath bombs

* Record Shopping with Be Your Own Pet in Nashville

* "Cleaning Up the Music Industry: Record labels, musicians, and festival producers show how putting their energy into going green not only benefits the environment but the bottom line profits too"

* Scene & Unheard: Bangkok’s music scene

* Meet graffiti artists Fafi and Swoon

* Style Idol: The Willowz’s Jessica Reynoza

* Sounds: Reviews of new albums by White Stripes, Keren Ann, Shapes and Sizes, Mary Timony Band, and Shannon Wright. Plus: Tegan and Sara review their new album, The Con

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Although she doesn’t consider Volta a political album nor herself a feminist, we’re certain about this: Björk is one of the most innovative artists of our time. How does the Icelandic avant-gardist remain a pop icon? Because people yearn to understan

Björk is supremely busy. After exchanging literally dozens of e-mails and phone calls with my editor and her publicist, dates and times were arranged, then rescheduled, and soon my in-person interview is changed to a phone interview. Which is n...

Summer 2007Björk

Although she doesn’t consider Volta a political album nor herself a feminist, we’re certain about this: Björk is one of the most innovative artists of our time. How does the Icelandic avant-gardist remain a pop icon? Because people yearn to understan

Other Stories in this Issue

Music

Features

The band’s vixen of a front woman, Shingai Shoniwa, is flattered by Billie Holiday and Karen O comparisons, but she really just wants to sound like herself

The kids really are all right

The Polyphonic Spree guitarist and Sufjan Stevens comrade — ka Annie Clark — goes solo with her debut album, Marry Me

For her ninth album, we’re invited to meet a posse of personalities, each one representing an element of the female psyche

This Maine-based collective revives folk music’s revolutionary past

Bangkok, Thailand

Britt Daniel and Jim Eno hope to trigger your animal response with Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga

Becky Stark is here to bring love, peace, and celebration to your world. For real.

The British girl group wants to subvert pop music

Tegan and Sara

Sounds

Fort Nightly

Dumb Luck

Beyond

Icky Thump

The Bird of Music

Super Scissors

Gentleman on the Rocks

All This Will Kill You

Rainbow

Hymns for a Dark Horse

God Save the Clientele

Orchestra for the Moon

Real Life

Keren Ann

Translated From Love

Lightning Dust

Split Lips, Winning Hips, a Shiner

The Needles The Space

Firetower

James and the Quiet

Dear Companion

Into the Blues

The Shapes We Make

Let in the Light

Poverina

Les Ondes Silencieuses

Pullhair Rubeye

Keeper of Youth

Through the Belly Of the Sea

Get The Gore

... and the Family Telephone

The Rosebuds’ Kelly Crisp loves racy reading, Russian poetry, and Dolly Parton

call and response: venus zine readers get their questions answered

Betty Davis

They Say I'm Different

DIY

Features

Designing Woman Ellen Lupton brings graphic design back home

The heart is queen in the world of DIY Fashion Royalty

Sarah Fox embraces lace with Cursive Design

Organic beauty virtuoso shares her story and her secrets

Art & Culture

Reads

Upon the release of her sixth short-story collection, the writer-translator extraordinaire talks about the comfort of watching TV, reading Dick and Jane stories, and channeling Proust in her e-mails

By Sunshine O’ Donnell (MacAdam/Cage, $23, 225 pages)

By Amy Fusselman (Counterpoint Press, $17, 120 pages)

By Miranda July (Scribner, 224 pages, $23)

JENNIFER BELLE

Film

One of the world’s most prominent film editors accepts a Coolidge lifetime achievement award and talks about a ‘fresh eyes’ approach to her work

Art

Schoolyard heroes

La petite artiste brings the street to the crib and the crib to the street

The New York artist turns to the streets to give an invigorating face to ‘ordinary reality’

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

Summer 2007
Björk