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inside chickfactor 16
editor's letter: why has this issue taken so damn long?
we track down french pop royalty/composer/superfox benjamin biolay in his own hood: saint germain. (interview by gail o'hara)
we check in with the brilliantly named, uke-sporting bliss blood who fronts new york city's lovely moonlighters + many other acts. (interview by gail o'hara)
the real dirt on london rock chicks extraordinaire (bongo) debbie + delia. (interview by peter momtchiloff)
the best thing out of detroit since kiss, denise james conjures dusty, spector and even mazzy star. (interview by gail o'hara)
l.a. songstress eleni mandell gives us the dirt on tom waits, her hometown, and broken hearts. (interview by gail o'hara)
some people think geoff dyer is england's greatest living writer. we think he's funny. (interview by lisa levy)
mary lynn rajskub and karen kilgariff are actors, comics, writers, and the girls guitar club of greater los angeles. (interview by gail cf + james mcnew)
we chat with melancholy new york songwriter, ebay seller and bartender jennifer o'connor at the magician. (interview by gail o'hara)
dawn sutter madell gets the story on this year's harp-plucking it folkie joanna newsom. (interview by dawn sutter madell)
a jukebox jury with alasdair maclean (the clientele), lupe nunez-fernandez (pipas), and tim hopkins (cf, the visitors). (records selected by gail o'hara)
marvellous french pop girl keren ann spends her time hopping from paris to brussels to reykjavik to new york. sounds like a dreamy life to us. we caught up with her at cafe gitane in new york. (interview by gail + dawn)
just back from selling out carnegie hall and touring stadiums across europe, new york tragicomic indie cabaret act kiki & herb gives cf the latest. (interview by claudia gonson)
swedish dad kristian airliner made a beautiful album most people have never heard. here is the story. (interview by lupe nunez-fernandez)
we would call rainy orteca the sideman-to-the-stars, except she is a girl. an exceptionally cool and funny girl. (interview by kendall jane meade)
she's the bluesy singer on 69 love songs and the last magnetic field we have yet to interrogate. meet shirley simms. (interview by ld beghtol)
the wonderful world of polls: this year chickfactor explores the worlds of dreams, death, and drugs.
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