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What the Phuck?

In the 17 years since Liz Phair’s Exile in Guyville made her an alt-rock icon and a touchstone for fuck-me feminism, fans and critics alike have made minor sport of trying to pinpoint the precise moment when she irrevocably betrayed the promise of her brilliant debut—when follow-up became synonymous with failure, when hope turned to resignation, when, in short, she started to suck.

Liz Phair: Why I left my record company

Following last week's surprise release of Funstyle, an online-only album that vents frustration at the recording industry, rocker Liz Phair has posted an instructive note on her website, titled How To Like It.
Liz Phair looks like she's having fun, and for $5.99, you can too. (Photo: Gary Hannabarger/Corbis)

Liz Phair drops bizarro album ‘Funstyle’ online

Liz Phair's new album, Funstyle, which she quietly dropped online the other day (3 July, to be exact) is a strange one, to say the least. But coming from the artist whose first album, Exile In Guyville, was a woman's response to The Rolling Stones' Exile On Main Street, why should we expect something ordinary?

Liz Phair is hiding in plain sight

How did the brash indie rock queen who once wrote a song called F--- and Run, wind up composing background music for TV shows such as the CW's 90210 remake and USA Network's In Plain Sight?

Liz Phair’s second career: novelist?

We caught up with Liz Phair earlier this week after the second show of her sold-out performance of Exile in Guyville at the Troubadour, and asked her to confirm a sneaking suspicion we had that she might be writing something other than songs these days.

Boys Will Be Boys: Liz Phair

"It was hard times when I was making that," explains Liz Phair of her 1993 lo-fi indie opus Exile in Guyville. "It wasn't a fun period in my life."

Back in ‘Exile’

Liz Phair revisits the '90s and her seminal 'Guyville' debut

Phair Play

In celebration of its 15th anniversary, the legendary debut is being re-released, along with four previously unavailable tracks and a DVD about the album's creation, filmed entirely by Phair herself.