Fall 2023
TABLES OF CONTENTS
“There’s Too Much Music Nowadays”
Fred Pessaro
HIRED GUNS
Yeah, That’s Right, We’re Writing YOU A Letter
Stars Cars
BE YOUR OWN PET
Photo by Joseph Patrick
WHAM, BAM, THANK YOU, MA'AM!
Hether Fortune
Twenty minutes with Ringo Starr.
QUESTIONS & JAANSWERS
CREEM O.G. Jaan Uhelszki fixes your life.
THE BOSTON SOUND IS THE ANYWHERE SOUND
Ezra Furman
Hell’s belles-lettres, from wrockers who write.
WAKE UP, NEO
Lee DeVito
I thought I knew Detroit’s streets—then I learned about J Dilla.
SPEED DATE
Fred Pessaro
CREEM takes a bite out of the Aussie hardcore outfit on the eve of their first East Coast tour.
CREEM DREEM
BOOTSY COLLINS
Photo by Chris Casella
The Spaces Between
Brian Turner
Music brainiac Brian Turner reveals a rare and fantastic record from his secret stash—hey, quit drooling on the magazine!
PHOEBE’S KILLER SPEAKS!
Mandy Brownholtz
TVOD give CREEM the “scoop” on their murder ballad “Goldfish.”
HIVE MENTALITY
Kirk Podell
Welcome to another chapter of Born to Booze, where all we see are pink elephants. This time around, though, our resident bartender/musician Kirk Podell (Subversive Rite, Anti-Machine, Neo Cons) goes “reverse Viking” on those Swedish boys in black and white, the Hives.
Creem Profiles
MODEL/ACTRIZ
(Pronounced “Boy Howdy!”)
FROM MOTOWN TO OHHHTOWN
Dan Morrissey
Test-driving Smokey Robinson’s cumback album Gasms.
BOOKING THE BUTTHOLES
Lyndon James Stockbauer
The story of two barely functioning people and one magical night.
STAY FROSTY
Christopher R. Weingarten
Mark McGrath nerds out the Sugar Ray way.
GEAR GOGGLES
Morgan Aparicio
CREEM investigates the link between guitars and ugly people who get laid.
CREEM VS THE '90s
Zachary Lipez
From its heroin highs to its thong-exposed lows, we give the final “whatever” on the decade so intense it ended the 20th century.
THE BUTLER DID IT
Derek Scancarelli
The fluid life of legendary Black Sabbath bassist Geezer Butler.
KILLER DRUMMER
Joel Selvin
In the chaotic world of rock 'n' roll, Jim Gordon could hide his madness in plain sight. Then he murdered his mother.
BULLY FOR YOU
Maria Sherman
Alicia Bognanno has some doggone questions.
RESIST PSYCHIC DEATH
Sam McPheeters
Three decades of Kill Rock Stars.
A PIECE OF ASH
Hether Fortune
Love and Rockets frontman Daniel Ash meets his stalker...and she works for CREEM.
TIGER BALM
Jerilyn Jordan
Where better to dig into Protomartyr's introspective new album than at a ballgame? (Anywhere.)
BRAND NEW SOUL
Mandy Brownholtz
Justice Tripp frees his mind and “does his thing” on the latest from Angel Du$t.
SOLO FANTASY
Grace Scott
Mary Jane Dunphe takes the stage alone on her debut solo album.
NAUGHTY BITS
Dan Morrissey
Call it salacious. Call it "easier than writing something." We just call it...
LIFE IN PRISON
Peter Buxton
CREEM trips balls—and the light fantastic—with the drone kings of Rockaway Beach.
STAGE DIVE TO THIS
Ross J. Farrar
Home Front imagine a world where synth waves wash over the pit.
FLAMING BIBLES, BROKEN TEETH
Fred Pessaro
For concert photographer Rob Coons, it’s always safety last.
THE CREEM SUMMER SUNBURN
The only party worth leaving the house for.
CREEM Comix
Nate Turbow
CREEM Comix
Luisa Colón
BACKSTAGE
MÖTLEY CRÜE CALLING
Sylvie Simmons
Shout at the Devil turns 40. CREEM hits rewind.