The Ex

Catch My Shoe (self-released)

Masonic

Live Like a Millionaire (self-released)

KIT

Invocation (Upset the Rhythm)

Old 97's

The Grand Theatre, Volume One (New West)

Kathryn Williams

Relations (One Little Indian)

Amelia Curran

Hunter, Hunter (Six Shooter)

Prince Rama

Shadow Temple (Paw Tracks)

Finding the groove with Shapes and Sizes

Singer Caila Thompson-Hannant strips down her music and her apartment as she prepares for two big departures

The Chapin Sisters

Two (Lake Bottom)

Andreya Triana

Lost Where I Belong (Ninja Tune)

Richard Thompson

Dream Attic (Shout! Factory)

Dreamend

So I Ate Myself, Bite By Bite (Graveface)

Mountain Man

Made the Harbor (Partisan)

Mahjongg

The Long Shadow of the Paper Tiger (K)

The Harvey Girls

I've Been Watching a Lot of Horror Movies Lately (Circle into Square)

Peg Simone

Secrets from the Storm EP (Radium/Table of Elements)

Pearly Gate Music

Pearly Gate Music (Barsuk)

Stephanie Finch and the Company Men

Cry Tomorrow (Belle Sound)

The Dø

A Mouthful (Six Degrees)

Puerto Muerto's Last Stand

The prolific band and couple announce a split weeks after their latest release

The Ettes are mad as hell, and they’re not going to take it anymore

Live From Chicago   Issue #40

Tortoise resurfaces with a little more grit

Liechtenstein

Survival Strategies In a Modern World (Slumberland)

Tara Jane O’Neil holds tight and lets go

Our Official Guide to SXSW

A short list of what not to miss this year

By Jennifer Kelly & Daniela Garcia

For Julie Doiron, happiness is a loud guitar

Adele   Issue #39

All that jazz

Ballad of the broken ceiling   Issue #38

Isobel Campbell slips one past the stereotypes

One door closes and another opens for Juliana Hatfield

Bodies of Water

A Certain Feeling (Secretly Canadian)

Jaymay

Common sources of inspiration create uncommonly literate anti-folk music

M.I.A.   Issue #33

With big love for her mama and her signature punk approach to dance music, is she the modern girl next door or the most exciting thing since riot grrrl? We're convinced she's both.

By Anne-Marie Payne

Get into Flower Arranging

By Cortney Heimerl

Elsie Flannigan of A Beautiful Mess

By Amy Strauss

Venus Zine Crowns the Queen of Rock ‘n’ Roll!   Issue #44

PART 1: STAFF PICKS

By Venus Zine Staff

The Greatest Female Guitarists of All Time, H–M   Issue #35

By Venus Zine Staff

Fans get double doses of rain and Radiohead at All Points West

August 8-10, 2008, at Liberty State Park

By Dominick Mastrangelo