Winter 2023

Issues 2020s 2023

THE KISS-OFF

Jaan Uhelszki

My initiation into KISS world had nothing to do with the music. As if it ever did.

HIRED GUNS

Mail

LESTER, YOU PIGFUCKER

CREEM DREEM

MITSKI

Photo by Ebru Yildiz

BUCK MILD

Christopher R. Weingarten

After a quarter century of shameless sleazemongering, Buckcherry’s Josh Todd attempts a T&A-free Q&A.

YANK CRIME

Brian Turner

Creem Profiles

BORIS

Photo by Samantha Marble

(Pronounced “Boy Howdy!”)

BAD AND PROUD

Mandy Brownholtz

I stalked John Waters for six months and all I got was a 15-minute phoner.

BITTEN BY LIFE

Kirk Podell

Welcome to another chapter of Born to Booze, where we’re still not sick and tired of being sick and tired. This time around, our resident bartender/musician Kirk Podell (Subversive Rite, Anti-Machine, Neo Cons) gathers chestnuts from Necrot, a death metal trio whose goblets runneth over with juicy stories of road-warrior glories, one of which puts the “sting” in “overly trusting.”

THANK YOU, CUM AGAIN

Mandy Brownholtz

NYC’s cumgirl8 have been dealing with your sexist bullshit for 8,000 years.

Stars Cars

MATT PIKE

Photo by Alyssa Herrman

I WON A CREEM PRESS PASS

Albin Sikora

Here’s my story.

SAUSAGE PARTY

Joe Casey

With a belly full of White Claw and kielbasa, local man takes to the 41st annual Hamtramck Labor Day Festival.

NIGHT OF A THOUSAND SOLOS

Fred Pessaro

A Phish-out-of-water tale.

WOKE UP THIS MORNING

Dan Morrissey

Got yourself a love gun.

GOOD SWILL HUNTING

John Liam Policastro

Boston post-hardcore supergroup Fiddlehead share their new album with the toughest critics of all: townie bar rats.

IT’S A VIBE

Brynn Michaels

Rhythm is gonna get you off.

SALEM’S LOT

Meaghan Garvey

The dirtbag duo emerge for another bumpy ride.

IT’S MIDNIGHT

J. Bennett

Jamie Walters of Cleveland's sleaziest metal band gives CREEM a look under the hood.

CRASH & BURN

Shane Enholm

The slippery slope from loving the Germs to robbing banks.

PUMP UP THE VOLUME 2

Eric Davidson

Lenny Kaye and the unearthing of more Nuggets.

THE LESTER MANIFESTO

Zachary Lipez

Why are we doing this?

WOMEN TALKING

A veritable henhouse of former CREEM staffers gets the last word on Lester’s legacy with the ladies.

HOW NOT TO BE A ROCK CRITIC

Jaan Uhelszki and Fred Pessaro

Wilco’s Jeff Tweedy helps us modernize the classic Bangs essay.

MORE BANGS FOR YOUR BUCK

Let’s pick the carcass of our own documentary.

THE LESTER LETTER

Lester Bangs

Bangs kicked off 1976 by sitting at his typewriter for two weeks and unloading on CREEM founder Barry Kramer. Here, for the first time ever, is that letter.