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Liz Phair Interview

New York Press' Tom Birner asked her about this recent change in style, her follow-up CD Somebody's Miracle — and much else — as Phair gets set for a gig here in town.

Review: Liz Phair – Somebody’s Miracle

The ickily-titled Somebody’s Miracle offers nothing as insistent as "Why Can’t I?" and it will probably cost her in the marketplace; the Avril Lavigne fans who made “Why Can’t I” her first gold-certified single are a fickle bunch.

Judging Liz phairly

Coming off the last album's play for pop success – a move that generated as much ire as it did sales – Phair is leveling the gunwales with a more plain-spoken sound in her current record Somebody's Miracle

Turnabout is Phair play

Liz Phair keeps growing and evolving, and like it or not, her music reflects that.

Hot Mama

Phair is back with her fifth album, Somebody's Miracle, out Tuesday.
Liz Phair (Photo: Phil Poynter)

Pop Quiz: Liz Phair

Liz Phair, a singer-songwriter still best known for her 1993 debut, Exile in Guyville, a feisty song-for-song retort to the 1972 Rolling Stones album Exile on Main Street, is up to her old tricks.

La Liz delivers the follow-up to that album

Somebody's Miracle is mostly generic pap that any number of next-big-has-beens could have cranked out, a useless piece of plastic poking a pointy heel in the eye of the carcass of the artist Liz once was.

Phair Treatment

Shedding her indie mantle once and for all, Liz Phair does grown-up glamour