Oh Land: New Creativity Found in Unfortunate Circumstance

Tunng

...And Then We Saw Land (Thrill Jockey)

Topless and teary-eyed

In Take Your Shirt Off and Cry, comedienne and SNL veteran Nancy Balbirer recounts her struggles to keep her shirt on

What I Was   Issue #34

By Meg Rosoff (Viking, 224 pages, $23.95)

A road trip that veers off course

Mercedes Helnwein’s debut, The Potential Hazards of Hester Day, is a road trip novel that isn’t quite the whimsical detour it tries to be

Laurie Lindeen   Issue #34

After marriage to Paul Westerberg, the former frontwoman of Zuzu’s Petals finds there’s more to life than ‘happily ever after’

Lauren Dukoff   Issue #34

The L.A. photographer lens support to bands when documenting honest moments

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