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DAN DEACON
The Baltimore co-founder of Wham City explains the secret behind making rave music for kindergarteners and how to irritate ivory-tower types everywhere.

MIRANDA JULY
From stage and screen to pen and paper, multi-media queen Miranda July brings her funny and melancholy take on modern life to her first book, "No One Belongs Here More Than You."

COMBAT ART
Marine combat artists keep an unlikely tradition alive by taking their fine art talents to the front lines. In Afghanistan and Iraq, they’re capturing on paper and canvas a different perspective of war.

SCOTT WALKER
From sexy baritone to bat-shit-crazy recluse, "Scott Walker: 30 Century Man" chronicles the career of the mysterious icon, without the sex, drugs and rock & roll BS.

ELECTRELANE
A re-energized Electrelane unleash their sleek and powerful new sound after realizing that it’s OK to see other people.

DNTEL
Jimmy Tamborello—the man known professionally as Dntel, James Figurine and half of electro-pop superstars the Postal Service—is tricked into getting all meta about the movies.

DEPARTMENTS

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News, Toolkit with Beth Tacular, Emilie Simon, Thee More Shallows, Mingering Mike, Battles, Gudrun Gut, Cadence Weapon, Richard Colman

how’d you do that?
Avey Tare and Kria Brekkan explain their backwards thinking.

reviews: books
James Sturm’s America: God, Gold, And Golems, The Art of Alex Gross, Zoology, Redemption Song: The Ballad of Joe Strummer, The Boy Who Cried Freebird, Spent, Famous Fathers and Other People’s Stories, DC Comics Covergirls, The Comic Strip Art of Lyonel Feininger, The Apocalypse Reader, Dear Diary, The Living and the Dead, True Loving

reviews: dvds
Danielson: a Family Movie (or, Make a Joyful Noise HERE), Monsters and Madmen Boxset, Woman Is The Future Of Man, The Other Side: Los Angeles; The Aura, Radio On, Grow Live Monsters, Lunacy, Rock & Rule

reviews: music
Justice (lead review), Xiu Xiu, Sunkissed, The Bad Plus, Cloud Cult, Lucky Dragons, Ben Mono and Armand Van Helden, Jason Holstrom, Betty Davis, Camberwell Now, Panther, Alias, Axolotl, Badun, Mice Parade, Mansbestfriend, The Go Find, Eats Tapes, Hug, Parts & Labor, Je Suis France and Sugar & Gold, Bill Callahan, The Blow, Deejay Om, Mark Templeton, Bjørn Torske, Best of Seth, SoCalled, TTC, STNNNG, Radical Face, The One Ensemble, Von Südenfed, Neon Neon, MF Doom & Ghostface Killah, Fridge, Handsome Furs, Nouvelle Vague, Kieran Hebden and Steve Reid, Panda Bear and Animal Collective, Spoon, Butch Morris & Nubke Orchestra, Phat Kat