Summer 2024

Archive Issues 2020s 2024

Opener

OPENER

Zachary Lipez

My earliest memories of movies are those of awe, terror, and a potent mix of disgust and abstract horniness that sustained me well into adulthood.

Hired Guns

HIRED GUNS

Josh Sisk, J. Bennett, Chris Boarts Larson, Samantha Marble, Jerry Brownell, Michael Tedder

MAIL

PLEASE SEND LETTERS TO: mail@creem.com

Stars Cars

LES CLAYPOOL

Photo by Jay Blakesberg

Les Claypool's Sunbeam Alpine

CREEM DREEM

CAROLINE POLACHEK

Phot by Nedda Afsari

QUESTIONS & JAANSWERS

The questions you ask every issue seem to fall into a theme. This time there was a lot of tentative romantic questions: Should I make a move? Tell them I care? Can this relationship work? Love—or love anxiety—was on everybody’s mind, but you guys were only dipping a cautious toe in.

Creem's Profiles

SHELLAC

Photo by Dannah Gottlieb

RIP Steve.

NERD SHIT

PARTY WHALES

Mandy Brownholtz

It’s not an attack, it’s an interaction!

IDOLS FOR IDLES

Fred Pessaro

Shopping for the records that created the mosaic of TANGK

BALTIMORE CITY Bowl Crew

Photos by Josh Sisk

You don’t like us, and we don’t like you

How-To

SUNDAY SAUCE

Photos by Sheva Kafai

Stoner rock pioneer Chris Goss shows us it’s all in the way you chop the onions

Born to Booze

COLOR ME CHISELED

Photos by Joe Jagos

Welcome to another round of Born to Booze, where we engage in some lighthearted alcohol abuse. In this special edition, our resident bartender/musician Kirk Podell (Subversive Rite, Anti-Machine, Neo Cons) embarks on a harrowing journey down 1-95 from NYC to Baltimore with Oil Bois the Chisel.

Interviews

THE MUMMIES UNWRAPPED

Tim Abbondelo

Just don't call it a reunion

Police Files

BLACK MAGIC MURDER

Joel Selvin

Wherein the philandering ways of Santana's original conga player caught up with him

A MORE PERFECT PUSSY

Photos by CJ Harvey

Mannequin Pussy’s Marisa Dabice has always felt like she’s living on borrowed time. Her bold new album proves she’s making the most of it.

Features

EGG, IN YOUR FACE

Derek Scancarelli

Snõõper’s brand of punk keeps Austin—hell, the whole US of A— real weird

UNCANCEL CULTURE

Michael Friedrich

Ryan Adams is back, baby. Will we continue to let moneyed elites decide the fate of monstrous men?

HELP FROM MY FRIENDS

Photos by Alexis Jade Gross

Photographer Alexis Jade Gross keeps it real and takes the homies with her

CREEM GOES TO THE MOVIES

WE’RE PACKING A PURSE FULL OF CONTRABAND MILK DUDS AND SOME HOT TAKES TO SPARE. LET’S GET INTO IT!

THE PASSION (S) OF PENELOPE SPHEERIS

Zachary Lipez

The world’s a mess, it’s in her films

ALL IN THE FAMILY

J. Bennett

With his fourth Lost Themes album, horror master John Carpenter gives CREEM an inside look at the family music business

MY DINNER WITH ANDREW

Zachary Lipez

Talkin’ movies with the frontman of the Sisters of Mercy

Eleganza

CREEM! LIVE FROM THE RED CARPET

Mandy Brownholtz and Jaan Uhelszki

Because rock stars never put us to sleep with their sartorial choices

CELLULOID HEROES

Andreas Loretan

Like Dylan in something or other, CREEM looks back at 69 nice years of rock soundtracks

THE RAMONES: HOT RODS TO HOLLYWOOD

Billy Altman

Joey Ramone and I are standing in the first-floor hallway of a dilapidated, no-longer-being-used high school situated somewhere in one of the less fashionable neighborhoods of Los Angeles. Scarcely had we arrived for the day’s shooting on Rock ’n’ Roll High School—the New World Pictures (that’s Roger “King of the Drive-Ins” Corman’s company) film in which the Ramones make their cinematic debut—when director Allan Arkush walked over to us and shoved cans of spray paint into our hands.