2003-07

High-tech couplings are breaking out all overRead More

TRIVIAL PURSUITS That collection of unreleased Starland Vocal Band tracks doesn't have to be the only useless information you save onto your iPod: Info freaks have written a program that lets you transfer up to 900 film entries from the Internet Movie Database (the software can be found at www.magma.ca/ ~sheppard/IMDb/iPod.html). Meanwhile, Roster2iPod (at soundsgoodradio.net/py4ipod) lets you copy the current stats of any Major League Baseball team directly onto the device, turning your MP3 player into one expensive baseball card.Read More

Punk rock takes a razor blade to West Coast fashion in the photography of We're DesperateRead More

Confronting teen immortality in Tuck Everlasting, Gilmore Girl Alexis Bledel plays a role she knows all too wellRead More

Serial killer-obsessed painter Joe Coleman puts the graphic back in graphic artRead More

It's been two years since Patrick Fugit made his unforgettable film debut, as a wide-eyed adolescent rock journalist in Almost Famous. Now the actor, who turns 20 this month, has his innocence tested in White Oleander (opening October 11), in which he plays the devoted boyfriend of the film's heroine, a victim of troubled foster homes, played by Alison Lohman. Fugit talked with Spin from the comfort of his tricked-out bachelor pad in Salt Lake City (a.k.a. his parents' basement).Read More

Skim the piano woman's universe of influences, from pivotal books to the albums that taught her about darknessRead More

Who: Super-badass, all-girl, glam-punk quartetRead More

Distillers frontwoman Brody Armstrong has a punk-rock-luminary husband, a history of drug abuse, and a honey-on-gravel rasp that's eerily reminiscent of a certain grunge diva. Still, any comparisons to Ms. Love are curtly dismissed. "Courtney who?" the Australia-bred Los Angeles resident scoffs. "A lot of artists have inspired me: Wendy O. Williams, Poly Styrene, definitely Debbie Harry, and Siouxsie Sioux."Read More

The first five minutes of The Rules of Attraction, a blissfully unrepentant look at collegiate hedonism from Pulp Fiction screenwriter Roger Avary, are a barrage of twisted energy: James Van Der Beek is dealing drugs and seducing nubile freshmen; Jessica Biel is downing Jack Daniel's and taking on an entire football team; and a gorgeous loser played by Shannyn Sossamon is getting raped and vomited on by a townie while an accomplice videotapes it all. It's a scene that's cruel and unnerving--and one that Sossamon wanted to make.Read More