SPRING 2024
TABLE OF CONTENTS
OPENER
Mandy Brownholtz
Why do we leave?
HIRED GUNS
Even our mailbox is in a no New York, no L.A. state of mind.
Stars Cars
JAMIE XX
QUESTIONS & JAANSWERS
Jaan Uhelszki
CREEM O.G. Jaan Uhelszki fixes your life.
Creem Profiles
THE BRIAN JONESTOWN MASSACRE
(Pronounced “Boy Howdy!”)
CREEM DREEM
CAT POWER
PULLIN’ ON MY HEART STRINGS
Mandy Brownholtz
CREEM editor lets love blow up her Spotify algorithm and attends a Billy Strings concert.
PHANTASMAGORICAL PHRIVOLITY
Kirk Podell
Welcome to another chapter of Born to Booze, where we still use the word “crunk.”
What Is FRIENDCORE?
Fred Pessaro
And is it clouding your riff judgment?
WAXING PHILOSOPHICAL
Joe Casey
Our Motor City stalwart gets his fingers dusty at Hello Records.
LESS HONKIN’, MORE TONKIN’
Learn the Texas Two-Step (kinda) with Josh T. Pearson.
YOU STILL REALLY GOT ME
John Liam Policastro
Dave Davies and CREEM wish the Kinks classic a happy 60th.
Features
COOLER HEADS PREVAIL
Fred Pessaro
Danny Brown talks spitting bars and rock guitars.
Features
THE PARTY THAT SAVED PITTSBURGH
Miles Raymer
Inside the artisanal-popper-fueled sex ’n’ noise party hot enough to melt Steel City.
DARK TOWER
Joel Selvin
Tower of Power vocalist Rick Stevens’ nightmarish odyssey of drugs—and murder.
Features
MAKE THEM WONDER WHY
Sam McPheeters
Cruelster’s Cleveland and the return of unpredictable strange punk.
Features
NOTHING TO SCOWL AT
Michael Tedder
Haters be damned, America’s best young band is just getting started. (But they can’t talk too much about that.)
Features
FUCK THIS BAND AGAIN
Zachary Lipez
Will mclusky’s good intentions finally pay off?
Features
HEARTLAND HEROES
Rob Walters
In the 1990s, a burgeoning music scene in Nebraska launched the career of Conor Oberst, among others. Rob Walters shot it all.
Features
NOW IT CAN BE TOLD
Zack Carlson
How five human robots named Devo predicted the intellectual apocalypse.
Features
WAYNE KRAMER: THE FINAL INTERVIEW
Jaan Uhelszki
The MC5 legend spoke to CREEM just days before his death at 75.
I CONFRONTED METALLICA ON THEIR OWN TERMS!
Sylvie Simmons
Why Metallica had to leave L.A. to make it big.
DANCING WITH MR. D (-O-G)
Susan Whitall
The flesh-eating, guitar gouging, talking walking wolfman (Ted Nugent to you).
Features
ONCE MORE, WITH FEELING
Farrah Skeiky is documenting a whole mood.
FOR LADIES ONLY
Brian Turner
Music brainiac Brian Turner reveals a rare and fantastic record from his secret stash— hey, quit drooling on the magazine!
Crème de la CREEM
Want new bands? Here’s a fresh crop to bop to.
Rock-a-Rama
Zachary Lipez
They’re GRRREAT!
CREEM Comix
PARTING SHOT