Record Shopping With Keren Ann   Issue #36

The multi-culti musician roots for the underdog

By Lora Kolodny & Amy Westervelt

Scene & Unheard   Issue #36

Oakland

By Amy Westervelt

The Watson Twins   Issue #36

By K Tighe

Ready, set, merch!   Issue #36

New approaches to merchandising bring funds to fans and bands

By Laura Leebove

Battle of the MCs   Issue #36

In the thick of jail sentences, rapper-on-rapper beefs, and lack of label support, women know they have to team up to succeed in the hip-hop industry. It’s just a matter of doing it.

By Makkada Selah

Ladytron   Issue #36

The Euro electro group’s latest warm, fuzzy, ‘booty’ release sparks debate about the state of the album

By Katy Henriksen

El Perro del Mar   Issue #36

The Swede known for playing her own instruments takes a conductor role and gets mystical on new album

By Tara Murtha

10 hip-hop artists to watch   Issue #36

By Niema Jordan

Missy Elliott   Issue #36

"When I walk in, I know what I want," says the rapper-producer. As one of the world’s most important leaders in hip-hop, the Virginia-born artist says she works “like she’s never had a deal.” Judging from her major-league success, her confidently

By Makkada Selah

Erykah Badu   Issue #36

Our writer manages not to get too mesmerized by the artist’s mysterious powers to talk about the sweating, bleeding process of New Amerykah

By Tamara Warren

Yo-Yo   Issue #36

Make way for the hip-hop legend’s mission of electing the next Miss Rap Supreme

By Jim Keller

Leaders of the Pack   Issue #36

The vice presidents of hip-hop’s leading management firm mean business

By Kate Rockwood

The Mission of MC Lyte   Issue #36

The legend makes a comeback with Almost September and works to reinstate the Grammys’ female rap category

By Makkada Selah

Free Kitten   Issue #36

Inherit (Ecstatic Peace)

By Katerina Herodotou

Foxy Brown   Issue #36

Brooklyn's Don Diva (Koch)

By Eavvon O'Neal

Janis Joplin   Issue #36

Pearl (Columbia, Legacy, Sony)

By K Tighe

Portishead   Issue #36

Third (Island/Mercury)

By John S.W. MacDonald

Mates of State   Issue #36

Re-Arrange Us (Barsuk)

By Rebekah Meek

Brooke Fraser   Issue #36

Albertine (Columbia)

By Joelle Caputa

Ellen Allien   Issue #36

SooL (BPitch Control)

By Amanda McCorquodale

Rachel Sage   Issue #36

Chandelier (MPress)

By Jonathan Shipley

Kira Lynn Cain   Issue #36

The Ideal Hunter (Evangeline)

By Dean Ramos

Scarlett Johansson   Issue #36

Anywhere I Lay My Head (Atco)

By Kimberly Chun

Mr. Gnome   Issue #36

Deliver This Creature (El Marko)

By Annie Holub

The Jealous Girlfriends   Issue #36

self-titled (Good Fences)

By Garin Pirnia

The Black Angels   Issue #36

Directions To See a Ghost (Light in the Attic)

By Erin Wolf

The Submarines   Issue #36

Honeysuckle Weeks (Nettwerk)

By Kim Newman

The Silver Jews   Issue #36

Lookout Mountain, Lookout Sea (Drag City)

By Anna Breshears

Love Psychedelico   Issue #36

This Is Love Psychedelico (Hacktone)

By Emily Becker

The Heavenly States   Issue #36

Delayer (Love Brand)

By Callye Morrissey

Amelia   Issue #36

A Long, Lovely List of Repairs (Slow Down)

By Anne C. Johnson

Thalia Zedek Band   Issue #36

Liars and Prayers (Thrill Jockey)

By Katerina Herodotou

Bellafea   Issue #36

Cavalcade (Southern)

By Matthew Siblo

My Brightest Diamond   Issue #36

A Thousand Shark's Teeth (Asthmatic Kitty)

By Carlye Wisel

God-dess and She   Issue #36

Stand Up (Gentry Music Group)

By Jessie Nelson

Nina Revoyr   Issue #36

The author of Age of Dreaming talks about overcoming racism, fighting her writing demons, and why she loves LA

By Kate Rockwood

Mad Lit: Hannah Tinti   Issue #36

The One Story editor dissects her decades-old fascination with Jane Eyre

By Leah DeVun

Short Attention Span Required   Issue #36

Capping off at six sentences, this lit blog keeps it short and sweet

By Jen Girdish

The Age of Dreaming   Issue #36

by Nina Revoyr (Akashic, 320 pages, $15.99)

By Adam Schragin

What Was Lost   Issue #36

by Catherine O'Flynn (Henry Holt, 256 pages, $14)

By Guy Patrick Cunningham

Jancee Dunn   Issue #36

The rock journalist-turned-novelist waxes on the charms of her folks’ bran obsession, why writing a novel is easier than working on deadline, and what she wants to be when she grows old. We take notes.

By Kate Rockwood

Lynda Barry   Issue #36

The artist extraordinaire pencils us to chat about how eBay saved her career, her newest book What It Is, and one memorable crying jag over Easter

By Mairead Case

Jennifer Stevenson   Issue #36

The author of Trash Sex Magic switches the lit market for the mainstream with an eye-boggling fantasy romance trilogy. Here, she shows us a little leg on the politics of writing romance.

By Ling Ma

Paul Scheer   Issue #36

This Giant star balances the small and silver screens while making fun of everything in between

By Carlye Wisel

Zooey Deschanel   Issue #36

The actress-singer proves with She & Him that there is more than one way to compel an audience

By Paula Crossfield

Molly Parker   Issue #36

The actress who’s played a druggie, corpse lover, and stripper adds another character to her list: swinging-’70s housewife

By Leah DeVun

Gonzo: the Life and Work of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson   Issue #36

Directed by Alex Gibney

By Erin DeJesus

An abstract audience   Issue #36

Renaissance woman Kim Gordon paints her fans

By Megan Martin

Draw and destroy   Issue #36

L.A. artist Jesse Spears isn’t afraid to create chaos in her work

By Valerie Palmer

Bobby Bare Jr.

A Storm – A Tree – My Mother's Head (Thirty Tigers)

By Emily Anderson

Revolver

Music for a While (Astralwerks)

By Beth Harrington

S. Carey

All We Grow (Jagjaguwar)

By Sarah Grant

The Greatest Female Guitarists of All Time, H–M   Issue #35

By Venus Zine Staff

The Greatest Female Guitarists of All Time, A–G   Issue #35

By Venus Zine Staff

Chicago's weekend-long hipster picnic

Now that the dust from Union Park's baseball fields has cleared, we can reflect on Pitchfork Music Festival

By Angie Vo