Atmosphere
ATMOSPHERE
Sadly, Atmosphere's Slug doesn't address white trash people who smoke Merit cigarettes and populate the county fair on the tellingly titled "Hockey Hair" from this year's You Can't Imagine How Much Fun We're Having. Instead, the Midwest-based Rhymesayers record label/hip-hop crew chieftain and best known emcee spits reclusive verse, branding himself a "space alien" who might some day "uncover ways to coexist with other homo sapiens."
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COHEED AND CAMBRIA
Big-haired Coheed and Cambria frontman/guitarist/whiz kid/jack-of-all-trades Claudio Sanchez is in a New York City hotel room at 10 a.m. this early August morning. He's lounging in blue boxers and a Fire Deuce t-shirt, but he's got work to do. READ MORE
THE (INTERNATIONAL) NOISE CONSPIRACY
Swedish band The (International) Noise Conspiracy calls its most recent CD Armed Love, a title that sounds a tad oxymoronic. After all, isn't true love never having to arm yourself in the presence of your partner? READ MORE
MY MORNING JACKET
"I love 'Off the Record' because it's sort of like the perfect song," says keyboardist Bo Koster a little immodestly of My Morning Jacket's admittedly fantastic new single. "It's catchy, and it rocks, and it's everything that we love, but the lyrics are about, like, shuttin' the hell up." READ MORE
BETWEEN THE BURIED AND ME
After enduring the onslaught of dizzying riffs and non-stop screaming on their new album Alaska, it's hard not to wonder if Between the Buried and Me ever consider just writing a simple fucking song. READ MORE
Other Issue Features availiable in Oct/Nov 2005 Issue:

• Silver Jews
• Deerhoof
• Black Dice
• Broken Social Scene
• XBXRX
• MAazarin