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TABLE OF CONTENTS
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OPENER
Mandy Brownholtz
Why do we leave?
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HIRED GUNS
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Even our mailbox is in a no New York, no L.A. state of mind.
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Stars Cars
JAMIE XX
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QUESTIONS & JAANSWERS
Jaan Uhelszki
CREEM O.G. Jaan Uhelszki fixes your life.
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Creem Profiles
THE BRIAN JONESTOWN MASSACRE
(Pronounced “Boy Howdy!”)
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CREEM DREEM
CAT POWER
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PULLIN’ ON MY HEART STRINGS
Mandy Brownholtz
CREEM editor lets love blow up her Spotify algorithm and attends a Billy Strings concert.
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PHANTASMAGORICAL PHRIVOLITY
Kirk Podell
Welcome to another chapter of Born to Booze, where we still use the word “crunk.”
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What Is FRIENDCORE?
Fred Pessaro
And is it clouding your riff judgment?
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WAXING PHILOSOPHICAL
Joe Casey
Our Motor City stalwart gets his fingers dusty at Hello Records.
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LESS HONKIN’, MORE TONKIN’
Learn the Texas Two-Step (kinda) with Josh T. Pearson.
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YOU STILL REALLY GOT ME
John Liam Policastro
Dave Davies and CREEM wish the Kinks classic a happy 60th.
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Features
COOLER HEADS PREVAIL
Fred Pessaro
Danny Brown talks spitting bars and rock guitars.
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THE PARTY THAT SAVED PITTSBURGH
Miles Raymer
Inside the artisanal-popper-fueled sex ’n’ noise party hot enough to melt Steel City.
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DARK TOWER
Joel Selvin
Tower of Power vocalist Rick Stevens’ nightmarish odyssey of drugs—and murder.
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MAKE THEM WONDER WHY
Sam McPheeters
Cruelster’s Cleveland and the return of unpredictable strange punk.
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NOTHING TO SCOWL AT
Michael Tedder
Haters be damned, America’s best young band is just getting started. (But they can’t talk too much about that.)
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FUCK THIS BAND AGAIN
Zachary Lipez
Will mclusky’s good intentions finally pay off?
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HEARTLAND HEROES
Rob Walters
In the 1990s, a burgeoning music scene in Nebraska launched the career of Conor Oberst, among others. Rob Walters shot it all.
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NOW IT CAN BE TOLD
Zack Carlson
How five human robots named Devo predicted the intellectual apocalypse.
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WAYNE KRAMER: THE FINAL INTERVIEW
Jaan Uhelszki
The MC5 legend spoke to CREEM just days before his death at 75.
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I CONFRONTED METALLICA ON THEIR OWN TERMS!
Sylvie Simmons
Why Metallica had to leave L.A. to make it big.
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DANCING WITH MR. D (-O-G)
Susan Whitall
The flesh-eating, guitar gouging, talking walking wolfman (Ted Nugent to you).
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ONCE MORE, WITH FEELING
Farrah Skeiky is documenting a whole mood.
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FOR LADIES ONLY
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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Crème de la CREEM
Want new bands? Here’s a fresh crop to bop to.
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Rock-a-Rama
Zachary Lipez
They’re GRRREAT!
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CREEM Comix
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PARTING SHOT