The Dollyrots

A Little Messed Up (Blackheart)

Versus

On the Ones and Threes (Merge)

Yo-Yo   Issue #36

Make way for the hip-hop legend’s mission of electing the next Miss Rap Supreme

Midnight Movies   Issue #31

Lion the Girl (New Line)

Macromantics

Moments in Movement (Kill Rock Stars)

Swan Island   Issue #30

The Centre Will Hold (Holocene Music)

Eric Bachmann

To the Races (Saddle Creek)

Midlake

Front man Tim Smith infuses Fleetwood Mac’s subtle grooves and Crosby, Stills and Nash’s harmonies with 19th-century simplicity

Nina Gordon

Bleeding Heart Graffiti (Warner Bros.)

Faun Fables

The Transit Rider (Drag City)

Susan Cagle   Issue #28

The Subway Recordings (Lefthook/Columbia)

Sing-Sing   Issue #27

Sing-Sing and I (Aerial)

The Fiery Furnaces   Issue #26

Rehearsing My Choir (Rough Trade)

Kate Bush   Issue #26

Aerial (Columbia)

Sonic Youth

Goo (Geffen)

Laura Veirs   Issue #25

Year of Meteors (Nonesuch)

Mary Timony concert review

June 25, 2005 at Brooklyn's North Six

alaska!

Rescue Through Tomahawk (Altitude Records)

alaska!

Imaad Wasif reveals his band's innermost secrets

Jackie Farry

Musicians help industry veteran fight for her life

Various Artists

Tracks And Fields (Kill Rock Stars)

The Muffs

Southpaw, Brooklyn, April 23, 2004

Rachel's

Systems/Layers (Quarterstick)

The Gossip

Undead in NYC (Dim Mak)

Sullen

Paint the Moon (Thick)

Tara Jane O'Neil and Daniel Littleton

Music for a Meteor Shower (Tigerstyle)

Eltro

Information Changer (Absolutely Kosher)

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

The Greatest Female Guitarists of All Time, A–G   Issue #35

By Venus Zine Staff