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TABLES OF CONTENTS
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“There’s Too Much Music Nowadays”
Fred Pessaro
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HIRED GUNS
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Yeah, That’s Right, We’re Writing YOU A Letter
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Stars Cars
BE YOUR OWN PET
Photo by Joseph Patrick
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WHAM, BAM, THANK YOU, MA'AM!
Hether Fortune
Twenty minutes with Ringo Starr.
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QUESTIONS & JAANSWERS
CREEM O.G. Jaan Uhelszki fixes your life.
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THE BOSTON SOUND IS THE ANYWHERE SOUND
Ezra Furman
Hell’s belles-lettres, from wrockers who write.
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WAKE UP, NEO
Lee DeVito
I thought I knew Detroit’s streets—then I learned about J Dilla.
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SPEED DATE
Fred Pessaro
CREEM takes a bite out of the Aussie hardcore outfit on the eve of their first East Coast tour.
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CREEM DREEM
BOOTSY COLLINS
Photo by Chris Casella
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The Spaces Between
Brian Turner
Music brainiac Brian Turner reveals a rare and fantastic record from his secret stash—hey, quit drooling on the magazine!
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PHOEBE’S KILLER SPEAKS!
Mandy Brownholtz
TVOD give CREEM the “scoop” on their murder ballad “Goldfish.”
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HIVE MENTALITY
Kirk Podell
Welcome to another chapter of Born to Booze, where all we see are pink elephants. This time around, though, our resident bartender/musician Kirk Podell (Subversive Rite, Anti-Machine, Neo Cons) goes “reverse Viking” on those Swedish boys in black and white, the Hives.
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Creem Profiles
MODEL/ACTRIZ
(Pronounced “Boy Howdy!”)
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FROM MOTOWN TO OHHHTOWN
Dan Morrissey
Test-driving Smokey Robinson’s cumback album Gasms.
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BOOKING THE BUTTHOLES
Lyndon James Stockbauer
The story of two barely functioning people and one magical night.
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STAY FROSTY
Christopher R. Weingarten
Mark McGrath nerds out the Sugar Ray way.
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GEAR GOGGLES
Morgan Aparicio
CREEM investigates the link between guitars and ugly people who get laid.
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CREEM VS THE '90s
Zachary Lipez
From its heroin highs to its thong-exposed lows, we give the final “whatever” on the decade so intense it ended the 20th century.
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THE BUTLER DID IT
Derek Scancarelli
The fluid life of legendary Black Sabbath bassist Geezer Butler.
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KILLER DRUMMER
Joel Selvin
In the chaotic world of rock 'n' roll, Jim Gordon could hide his madness in plain sight. Then he murdered his mother.
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BULLY FOR YOU
Maria Sherman
Alicia Bognanno has some doggone questions.
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RESIST PSYCHIC DEATH
Sam McPheeters
Three decades of Kill Rock Stars.
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A PIECE OF ASH
Hether Fortune
Love and Rockets frontman Daniel Ash meets his stalker...and she works for CREEM.
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TIGER BALM
Jerilyn Jordan
Where better to dig into Protomartyr's introspective new album than at a ballgame? (Anywhere.)
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BRAND NEW SOUL
Mandy Brownholtz
Justice Tripp frees his mind and “does his thing” on the latest from Angel Du$t.
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SOLO FANTASY
Grace Scott
Mary Jane Dunphe takes the stage alone on her debut solo album.
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NAUGHTY BITS
Dan Morrissey
Call it salacious. Call it "easier than writing something." We just call it...
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LIFE IN PRISON
Peter Buxton
CREEM trips balls—and the light fantastic—with the drone kings of Rockaway Beach.
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STAGE DIVE TO THIS
Ross J. Farrar
Home Front imagine a world where synth waves wash over the pit.
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FLAMING BIBLES, BROKEN TEETH
Fred Pessaro
For concert photographer Rob Coons, it’s always safety last.
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THE CREEM SUMMER SUNBURN
The only party worth leaving the house for.
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CREEM Comix
Nate Turbow
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CREEM Comix
Luisa Colón
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BACKSTAGE
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MÖTLEY CRÜE CALLING
Sylvie Simmons
Shout at the Devil turns 40. CREEM hits rewind.