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March 2008
Vampire Weekend: The Graduates
Thanks to the new speed of buzz, Vampire Weekend have gone from the Ivy league to the big leagues in record time. And everyone's impressed, it seems, but Vampire Weekend.
Paramore Is a Band
She's the flame-haired frontwoman for rock's most successful new act. But Hayley Williams just wants to be one of the guys.
The SPIN Interview: Stephen Malkmus
By Douglas Wolk
Over the course of two decades, Stephen Malkmus has traded Pavement's inscrutable, self-reflexive wordplay for marathon prog-guitar solos. "I'm just not that much into words lately," he says. Yet he speaks to us anyway.
Chicago, Ill!
Crash a raucous house party with the brightest stars of the Windy City's underground hip-hop scene.
Noise
Albums
R.E.M., 'Accelerate' (Warner Bros.), American Music Club, 'The Golden Age' (Merge), Antietam, 'Opus Mixtum' (Carrot Top), Apes, 'Ghost Games' (Gypsy Eyes), Atlas Sound, 'Let the Blind Lead Those Who Can See But Cannot Feel' (Kranky), Autechre, 'Quaristice' (Warp), Bauhaus, 'Go Away White' (Bauhaus Music), Beach House, 'Devotion' (Carpark), The Gutter Twins, 'Saturnalia' (Sub Pop), Bell X1, 'Flock' (Yep Roc), Black Tide, 'Light From Above' (Interscope), Bon Iver, 'For Emma, Forever Ago' (Jagjaguwar), Born Ruffians, 'Red, Yellow and Blue' (Warp), Cadence Weapon, 'Afterparty Babies' (Anti-), Mlle Caro and Franck Garcia, 'Pain Disappears' (Buzzin' Fly), Flogging Molly, 'Float' (Sideonedummy), Howlin Rain, 'Magnificent Fiend' (Birdman/American), Dawn Landes, 'Fireproof' (Cooking Vinyl USA), Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks, 'Real Emotional Trash' (Matador), Murder By Death, 'Red of Tooth and Claw' (Vagrant), Mia Doi Todd, 'Gea' (City Zen), Jim White, 'Transnormal Skiperoo' (Luaka Bop), The Mountain Goats, 'Heretic Pride' (4AD), The Raveonettes, 'Lust Lust Lust' (Vice), Karen Dalton, 'Cotton Eyed Joe' (Delmore Recordings), Danava, 'UnonoU' (Kemado), Dead Meadow, 'Old Growth' (Matador), DeVotchKa, 'A Mad and Faithful Telling' (Anti-)
Takka Takka, "Silence"
Minimalism and math rock collide with folk and funk in the stop-motion video for "Silence" from Migration (Earnest Jennings).
Backstage at Outside Lands '08: Torq from Stars, "A Place to Hide Away"
An intimate backstage rendition of a somber classic from the Go-Betweens' Robert Forster.
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