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Before Avril, there was Liz. FLARE gets the 411 from Ms. Phair
September 1, 2005
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2 minute read
Liz Phair (Photo: Dusan Reljin)

Exile in Mainstream

Can the songwriter's follow-up to the disastrous Liz Phair reconcile her altrock past with her pop-rock present?
August 17, 2005
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7 minute read

Exile in Mainstream

Can the songwriter's follow-up to the disastrous Liz Phair reconcile her altrock past with her pop-rock present?
August 17, 2005
1.2K views
7 minute read

Miss Independent

Liz Phair doesn't need your stinking "indie cred." She's not nostalgic for her bad-girl years. And she's back with her best album yet.
August 15, 2005
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6 minute read

The Independence of Liz Phair

Liz Phair, former crown princess of indie music, has news for all those who wish she would go back to opening up a vein so listeners can feel her pain.
August 2, 2005
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5 minute read

Spin 100 Greatest Albums: 1985-2005

Liz Phair remembers very well the outrage caused by her decision to embrace Matrix-produced pop on her self-titled 2003 album.
July 1, 2005
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2 minute read

Phair and Balanced

On her fifth album, Liz Phair embraces her new and old selves
July 1, 2005
881 views
1 minute read

Elvis Costello

Elvis Costello writes novels in three minutes.
April 11, 2005
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2 minute read

Still Phair a Decade Later

In the early 1990's rocker Liz Phair began melding lo-fi indie rock production with a classic singer/songwriter sensibility, influencing an array of artists including Lisa Loeb, Paula Cole and Shaun Colvin.
February 1, 2005
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4 minute read
Liz Phair, second from left, with tour mates Nina Persson, Katy Rose, and Charlotte Martin during the Chicks With Attitude tour sponsored by Maybelline on May 3, 2004. (Photo: Theo Wargo)

Phair warning

Liz Phair contends with a chilly exile in major-labelville.
August 5, 2004
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4 minute read
Liz Phair (Photo: Craig DeChristo)

Phair Play

For her summer tour, rocker Liz Phair shook off her stage fright. Then she shook off a bit more for these photos. (She was wearing a hat.)
July 1, 2004
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3 minute read

The Records That Changed My Life

Liz Phair has evolved from the lo-fi diva of 1993's Exile in Guyville to the modern-rock mom of last year's Liz Phair. And through the years, her relationship with the music on her Walkman/Discman/iPod has remained as intimate and intense as those early four-track songs she recorded more than a decade ago in response to the Rolling Stones' Exile on Main St.. "I've walked thousands of miles across Chicago and Manhattan listening to these albums," she says.
July 1, 2004
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3 minute read