Spring 2006

Spring 2006
Neko Case

Cover story: Neko Case

INTERVIEWS

Margaret Cho• Mates of State• Built To Spill’s Doug Martsch• Beth Orton• The Gossip• Jessica Abel• The Grates• “Friends With Money” director Nicole Holofcener• Babes in Toyland’s Kat B’Jelland• “Waking Life” illustrator Divya Srinivasan

PLUS

* Record Shopping With Mommy and Daddy

* Scene & Unheard: Los Angeles

* Whatcha Watchin? with Suffrajett front woman Simi

* What’s Your Sign? with Chloe of Smoosh

* Decorating with punk shui

* “Stag Party!” Venus readers write about their love for being single gals

* Sex Bomb: “Hairstyles of the Damned” author Joe Meno

* How to make your own perfume

* Convert a pillowcase into a shrug

* Cooking with Town and Country’s Liz Payne

* Biz of DIY: Handy tips for keeping your books straight come tax time

* Style Idols: Beckerman sisters

photo by Dennis Kleiman

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Neko Case  Issue #27 Issue #27

She’s just as much the girl next door as the mysterious artist whose code you want to crack. Her latest album, Fox Confessor Brings the Flood, is filled with magic moments and a cast of dark yet humorous characters.

Every music junkie has a shortlist of singers whose voices have the power to conjure memories, or even emotional states, from the back catalogue of their lives. Think of Kate Bush’s howl, Corine Tucker’s warble, or Nico’s whisper. But few voice...

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Mommy And Daddy

By Peter Divito

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By Amber Drea

Retro Fetish  Issue Number #27 Issue #27
Kat B’jelland

By Jen Hazen

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Scene & Unheard  Issue Number #27 Issue #27
Los Angeles

By Elizabeth Barker & Amber Drea

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Whatcha Watchin?  Issue Number #27 Issue #27
Suffrajett frontwoman Simi wakes up with Venus

By Amber Drea

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The Built to Spill frontman talks about his experiences of the Seattle-Olympia scene, his youth in Boise, and his unique method of translation

By Beth Capper

Beth Orton  Issue Number #27 Issue #27
Following her last album, Daybreaker, the singer-songwriter is inspired by the comfort of strangers

By Katie Hasty

Mates of State  Issue Number #27 Issue #27
The duo’s been together through thick and thin, perms and mullets, tours and birth, and they’ve still got time to talk about the 1970s vibe of their latest release, Bring it Back

By Sujan Hong

Beth Ditto
The Gossip  Issue Number #27 Issue #27
Beth Ditto and the gang know it ain’t easy to be in your 20s. On their latest album, Standing in the Way of Control, they’re here to say, “Be all that you can be. This is your time. Take care of you.”

By Shaina Feinberg

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In her own words  Issue Number #27 Issue #27
Kimya Dawson tells us why she poured her heart out on her latest release, Remember That I Love You

By Kimya Dawson

Sounds
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At War With the Mystics (Warner Bros.)

By Amber Drea

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The Life Pursuit (Matador)

By AK Gold

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This is an Exercise (Kill Rock Stars)

By Andrea Benvenuto

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En Este Momento (Bloodshot)

By Melissa Smith

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By Angie Vo

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Push the Heart (Filter)

By Elizabeth Rhodes

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Wind-Up Canary (Hush)

By Elisabeth Donnelly

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Dancing With Daggers (Paper Bag)

By Elizabeth Rhodes

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Sev7en (Nitro)

By Chris Sherman

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Ballad of the Broken Seas (V2)

By John Everhart

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Nine Times That Same Song (What’s Your Rupture)

By John Everhart

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The Sound of You and Me (Vanguard)

By Katie Hasty

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Via (self-released)

By Callye Morrissey

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Supernature (Mute)

By Dean Ramos

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Black Eyes and White Lies (Howler)

By Bill Copeland

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Detrola (Silver Mountain)

By Kim Newman

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Panamericana (Barbes)

By Marisa Torrieri

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By Andrea Bussell

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Notes and the Like (Morr Music)

By Rebecca Flint-Marx

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When the Going Gets Dark (Touch and Go)

By Elizabeth Barker

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The Blistering Sun (MPress)

By Marisa Torrieri

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The Invisible Deck (Too Pure)

By Amber Drea

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Tales From Turnpike House (Savoy Jazz)

By Jennifer Li

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The Concretes  Issue Number #27 Issue #27
The Concretes in Colour (Astralwerks)

By Garin Pirnia

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Sing-Sing and I (Aerial)

By Jim Keller

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By Katrina Martin Davenport

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Jukebox Alarm and My Melody (Kill Rock Stars)

By Anna Breshears

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Young For Eternity (Sire)

By Jeanne Fury

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Boo Hoo Hoo Boo (Kill Rock Stars)

By Anne Johnson

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All At Once (Too Pure)

By Kristina Francisco

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By Chris Sherman

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I Remember Elvis (Goldenlane)

By Charlotte Robinson

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To: Elliott From: Portland (Expunged)

By Dina Zwiebel

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

By Amber Drea

Culture

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Image from Josh Amatore Hughes' Lower East Side apartment.
About Place  Issue Number #27 Issue #27
Windows to the punk soul

By Dina Zwiebel

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Sex Bomb  Issue Number #27 Issue #27
Joe Meno

By Jenny Sabella

Images from the book LaPorte, Indiana
LaPorte, Indiana  Issue Number #27 Issue #27
by Jason Bitner (Princeton Architectural Press)

By Gretta Cohn

Illustration by Jessica Abel
Jessica Abel  Issue Number #27 Issue #27
The comic-book artist talks about her teen years as a punk rock poser, writing in full prose, and the release of her comic series, La Perdida, in book form

By Ann Heppermann

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Memoirs of a Muse  Issue Number #27 Issue #27

By Gretchen Kalwinski

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By Ling Ma

Film
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Sunglasses Is a Must (Audio Research)

By Amber Drea

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Nicole Holofcener  Issue Number #27 Issue #27
The Lovely & Amazing director takes on love and debt in her latest film, Friends With Money

By Rebecca Flint-Marx

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The director casts a revisionist lens on pinup goddess Bettie Page

By Michael Hastings

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By Rebecca Flint-Marx

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By Christina Saraceno

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