MAGNET Contest: We’ve got a fabulous-looking Chemikal Underground DJ bag (or record satchel, or whatever) to give away. Seriously, it’s a handsome leather accessory. Several MAGNET staffers have been eyeing it a little too longingly. Anyway, since the Chemikal Underground label is the cradle of such beloved Glasgow bands as the Delgados, Arab Strap and Mogwai, we’ve made up a Scottish quiz that will decide, once and for all, which of you bastards deserves to look fancy while straining your back and shoulders hauling vinyl around town.

1. Aye, there’s too many Stuarts! Name the respective band each of the following Stuarts are in:
a. Stuart Murdoch
b. Stuart Braithwaite
c. Stuart David

2. Which one of these is not a Scottish band?
a. Close Lobsters
b. Strawberry Switchblade
c. Fire Engines
d. Housemartins
e. Jesus And Mary Chain

3. True or False: If you bought a ticket to the Franz Ferdinand show in order to “jink about and get a lumber from a madbit,” what are you planning on doing?

4. Who is the founder of Postcard Records?
a. Geoff Travis
b. Alan Horne
c. Frank Wilson
d. Kieran Kinsley
e. Leonard Smalls

The first person to e-mail the correct answers will receive the record bag. Four runners-up will receive Chemikal Underground T-shirts and whatever other crap we can shove into a padded envelope. E-mail your entry to newsletter@magnetmagazine.com (lazy sods: hit “reply”). All entries are due by Monday, July 19.

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COVER STORY: JOSH HOMME OF QUEENS OF THE STONE AGE
MAGNET joined the flock and followed weird shepherd Josh Homme from city (New York) to desert (Joshua Tree), where the Queens have begun work on a new album. The truth—about mustaches, the Man and Nick Oliveri—is out there, baking in the sun where the Mojave and Sonoran meet.

FEATURES
C’mon and get happy with the POLYPHONIC SPREE. Go on and get tyrannical with THE FALL. Read up and get down with the DECEMBERISTS.

PLUS
PJ Harvey’s identity crisis; Los Lobos’ historic ride; Sebadoh’s reunion-tour diary; Carl Newman’s awesome mix tape number one; Clinic’s self-diagnosis of album number three; the MC5’s garage-rock residuals; Sloan’s cultlike allure; Jim Jarmusch’s musical inspiration; Jay Farrar’s new stage moves; Ween’s jam-band following; and U.K. label Fierce Panda’s singles scene.

REVIEWS
New releases from !!!, Bad Religion, Burning Brides, Fiery Furnaces, Gomez, Helio Sequence, Jesse Malin, Marah, Maritime, Old 97’s, Robert Pollard, Sonic Youth, Wilco and more.

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