Baby Mama is a comedy (and box office) smash

Susannah Felts   Issue #35

The novelist talks about This Will Go Down on Your Permanent Record

Jami Attenberg   Issue #34

The Brooklyn-based author discusses her debut novel, The Kept Man, her fantasies about offing her ex, and her “wild past”

Girl power or porn?   Issue #34

Queens of the Stone Age video appeals to the feminist mind and the male libido

Siouxsie Sioux

The 50-year-old music legend discusses her debut solo album, the roles of women in music, and how to deal with male egos

Björk in Chicago, May 12, 2007

The Icelandic composer breathes new life into old favorites, presenting an aurally — and visually — stimulating show

The Best Show on WFMU

Comedy team Scharpling and Wurster release another compilation of staged radio call-ins and interview spoofs

Whatcha Watchin'?   Issue #30

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

Get This   Issue #26

Emily Haines   Issue #29

Metric’s vocalist-keyboardist discusses going solo, personal struggles, her love affair with the piano, and playing blindfolded

Freddy Rodriguez   Issue #29

The former Six Feet Under actor discusses life after the series finale, working on the Quentin Tarantino–Robert Rodriguez double feature Grind House, and having kids in Hollywood

Zine Review   Issue #29

Lickety Split #3

Dani Siciliano   Issue #29

Slappers (!K7)

Brazilian Girls   Issue #29

Talk to La Bomb (Verve Forecast)

Heather Duby   Issue #29

Heather Duby (Sonic Boom)

Fashion addicts unite!   Issue #29

Wear your strength on your sleeve   Issue #29

Juliana Hatfield   Issue #29

On the heels of their second album, the Some Girls frontwoman reveals how she feels about music critics and her plans for writing a book

Trigger happy   Issue #29

American teenage girls are picking up the most unexpected of sports

Good, cheap art   Issue #29

She Works Hard For the Money   Issue #29

The 56-year-old queen of West African dance gets jiggy with it

Read this before you throw away your old cell phone   Issue #29

Whatcha Watchin?   Issue #29

Author, screenwriter, comedian, and former Six Feet Under co-executive producer Jill Soloway proves you can do it all when you put your mind to it

Scene & Unheard: Spain   Issue #29

You don’t have to speak Spanish to enjoy the sounds of these bands

By Beth Capper & Amber Drea

Eugene Mirman

En Garde, Society! (Sub Pop)

Crucified Barbara

In Distortion We Trust (Liquor and Poker Music)

OFFICE   Issue #28

Q & A (self-released)

Book Publishing 101   Issue #28

Sister Chicas authors Lisa Alvarado, Ann Hagman Cardinal, and Jane Alberdeston Coralin make getting published look easy

Psalm One's Top 5 Ladies in Hip-Hop to Look Out for This Summer   Issue #28

Record Shopping with   Issue #28

The Rogers Sisters

Scene & Unheard   Issue #28

Sweden

By Beth Capper, Jennifer Sabella & Amber Drea

Who wears short shorts?   Issue #28

PhDs are the new pin-ups   Issue #28

Viva España … y el Mundo!   Issue #28

Look out for this new label from former Bratmobiler Molly Neuman

Instant Love   Issue #28

By Jami Attenberg

Aziz Ansari   Issue #28

The young New York-based comic fuses his personalized humor with his knowledge of independent music, creating a new brand of comedy

Hot Chip   Issue #28

The Warning (DFA Records/EMI/Astralwerks)

The Streets   Issue #28

The Hardest Way to Make an Easy Living (679/Vice)

Ellen Allien and Apparat   Issue #28

The Berlin-based buddies burst their individual bubbles to unite on one spectacular record

‘Black Marks’ by Kirsten Dinnall Hoyte

An introspective look at identity, both social and cultural, from the eyes of an amnesia victim

BACK TO THE ’80S   Issue #27

Stop Screaming Like a Baby   Issue #27

Scene & Unheard   Issue #27

Los Angeles

By Elizabeth Barker & Amber Drea

Dance For Punks   Issue #27

Members of Leg and Pants Dans Theeatre showcase underground dance in a collection of short films

Whatcha Watchin?   Issue #27

Suffrajett frontwoman Simi wakes up with Venus

The Flaming Lips   Issue #27

At War With the Mystics (Warner Bros.)

A-Trak   Issue #27

Sunglasses Is a Must (Audio Research)

The Rogers Sisters   Issue #27

The Invisible Deck (Too Pure)

Various Artists   Issue #27

High School Reunion: A Tribute To Those Great ’80s Films! (American Laundromat/Face Down)

Denali   Issue #26

Pinnacle (Lovitt)

Nice threads   Issue #26

Sonic Fabric makes new use of old-fashioned cassette tapes

Controller.Controller   Issue #26

X-Amounts (Paper Bag)

Lady Sovereign, Queen of England   Issue #26

The truth about grime’s first lady

Scene & Unheard   Issue #26

Nashville

Whatcha Watchin?   Issue #26

with Stacey DuPree

Sex Bomb   Issue #26

Mr. Lif

Metric

Live it Out (Last Gang)

Fiona Apple

Extraordinary Machine (Epic)

Whatcha Watchin'?   Issue #25

Rasputina's Melora Creager sends a postcard from 1805

Somewhere over the rainbow   Issue #25

Saturday Night Live alum Ana Gasteyer fights the Man in Wicked and beyond

Kirsten Stoltmann   Issue #25

\The L.A.-based multimedia artist shifts her focus from

Relationship Rundown   Issue #25

Married hip-hop duo Apsci discusses pros and cons of mixing business and pleasure

Scene & Unheard   Issue #25

Indie entrepreneurs heat up the Miami music scene

Get This   Issue #25

What's Your Sign?   Issue #25

Former Bratmobile frontwoman Allison Wolfe looks to the stars and examines her lifelong dedication to DIY

Crafty Shopping with Out Hud   Issue #25

We gave two of the band’s members $50 to make them holler — this time at Chicago’s Intonation Music Festival

No artificial flavors or colors added   Issue #25

Pancake Mountain is a kids’ show adults will love, too

By Amber Drea & Anna Breshears

Oly

A Hot Hooray (self-released)

Various Artists

Army Of Me: Remixes and Covers (One Little Indian)

She Works Hard For the Money   Issue #24

North Carolina-based motorcycle technician talks shop

Psalm One   Issue #24

From chemist to lyricist, Psalm One changes up the Rhymesayers formula with some feminine elements

What's Your Sign?   Issue #24

The AstroTwins’ reading proves singer-songwriter Kristin Hersh was born to rock

Whatcha Watchin?   Issue #24

Slam poet-turned-mystery writer Maggie Estep loves horse racing and bicycle riding, but hates eating and shopping

Zine Review   Issue #24

Fag School

Get This   Issue #24

Ask Emily   Issue #24

What to do when your boss is porn-surfing? The singer-drummer of San Diegan duo Bunky fills us in

Rasputina

A Radical Recital (Filthy Bonnet Co.)

boygirL

Demo LP (self-released)

Finesse & Runway

The Miami duo talks about stuff that gets their juices flowing

Gang Gang Dance

Gang Gang Dance (Fusetron)

Mary Timony   Issue #23

Former Helium frontwoman gets back to her roots with a new solo album, Ex Hex

Get This   Issue #23

An Extraordinary effort to free Fiona   Issue #23

Despite the protest’s failure to lock down a release date for Fiona Apple’s shelved third album, campaign organizers continue to fight

She Works Hard For the Money   Issue #23

This Chicagoan runs a dating service for zoo animals

Cass McCombs   Issue #23

PREfection (Monitor/4AD)

Actual Fucking by Parker Greene   Issue #23

By Rjyan Kidwell (a.k.a. Cex)

Björk

Medúlla (Elektra)

Gravy Train!!!!

The Oakland-based sexy punk-rap group goes record shopping at Berkeley’s Amoeba Music

The Streets

Rapper Mike Skinner translates the lifestyles of the young, urban British on his entertaining yet astutely aware sophomore album

Tracy + the Plastics

Wynne Greenwood discusses her new record, the relationships between art and identity, and how she feels about high heels

Earplugs are so punk rock   Issue #20

Carolynn Travis markets EarLove to music fans

Terror At the Opera

Snake Bird Blue (No Sides)

Rachael Yamagata

Happenstance (Private Music/Arista)

Ani DiFranco Concert Review

Chicago Theater, January 17, 2004

Shut up and read this interview   Issue #18

The complete, uncut David Cross interview

Kevin Blechdom

Bitches Without Britches (Chicks On Speed Records)

DVD Review

Plaster Caster (Xenon Pictures/Fragment Films); Director: Jessica Villines

The Mediæval Bæbes

Mistletoe & Wine (Nettwerk America)

Mensen

Oslo City (Gearhead)

Nedelle

Republic of Two (Kimchee)

Diana Darby

Fantasia Ball (Delmore Recording Society)

Metric

Old World Underground, Where Are You Now? (Enjoy)

Broadcast

Pendulum (Warp)

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

By Camella Lobo

Emily Armond’s Tour Diary, Part 3

Dark Meat finds itself busless and penniless on the Great Plains

By Emily Armond

Indian Jewelry

Free Gold! (We Are Free)

By Camella Lobo

Memphis gets muddy at Beale Street Music Festival

May 2-4, 2008, in Tom Lee Park

By Bob Guthridge

Sui Dreams   Issue #29

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

By Jenny Hart

Reader of the Week: Krissi Sandvik of Sacramento

Artist and creator of Stitchery & Mexiphemera

By Jihanah Rasul