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  The SPIN Interview: Paul Weller

  July 1, 2008 – As frontman for the Jam and later the Style Council, Paul Weller has been an uncompromising face of British rock for three decades. "I've considered retiring after almost every record I've made lately," he says. …
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  The SPIN Interview: ?uestlove

  June 1, 2008 – With both relevant and obscure history buzzing through his afro, the Roots’ ?uestlove has been revising hip-hop’s rule book for 15 years. He’s also the genre’s go-to quote machine, dropping pearls like dimes. “Obama,” he says, “is the new De La Soul.” Ahmir "?uestlove" Thompson is pop music's visionary B-boy auteur. …
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  The SPIN Interview: Kim Deal

  April 1, 2008 – After 20 years, Kim Deal has made her peace with the fact that the rock lifestyle and stable relationships might not go together. "Maybe it's because I look like a guy," she deadpans. "I'm just like, whatever, friend zone is cool." Past its drab downtown center, Dayton, Ohio, gives way to suburban sprawl — ranch houses on quiet, tree-lined streets. Kim Deal lives in one of these — with her parents. …
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  The SPIN Interview: Stephen Malkmus

  March 1, 2008 – Over the course of two decades, Stephen Malkmus has traded Pavement's inscrutable, self-reflexive wordplay for marathon prog-guitar solos. "I'm just not that much into words lately," he says. Yet he speaks to us anyway. For most of the '90s, Stephen Malkmus may have been the perpetually smirking face of indie rock. …
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  The SPIN Interview: Bob Mould

  February 1, 2008 – Indie forefather and reformed "miserablist" Bob Mould is happy to share old Hüsker Dü war stories, but don't expect him to dwell on his past or to relive it for fun or profit. "I'm blessed to have such a nice history," he says, "but I'm careful not to cash in on it." It's hard to imagine that Bob Mould was once referred to as "literally the meanest person I have ever met" — by one of his own bandmates, no less. …
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