It's all been online for nearly a day already, but in case you missed something, this week's dead-tree City Paper has lots of sexy stuff:

Leor Galil profiles D.C. grindcore trio Magrudergrind, who pissed off some of their peers by releasing an EP through Scion, the Toyota brand. But why are grindcore kids still hung up [...]

Friday:

Liz Phair, U.S. Royalty. 8 p.m. $25. 9:30 Club.
Gene Wene, The Blackberry Belles. 9 p.m. $20. Black Cat.
Free Lobster Buffet, Honey House, The Bourbon House (all sound delicious, all are just bands). 9:30 p.m. $8. Red Palace.
Bellman Barker, Megan Jean and the Klay Family Band, Alma Tropicalia, Fort Washington Band. 9 p.m. $10. Rock & [...]

U.S. Royalty: Fan Death hates the group, and I sort of made fun of a Gant promo to which the local band licensed a song. No negative vibes today, though: The group is performing with rapper Phil Adé on Feb. 26 at the Rock & Roll Hotel, and both parties collaborated on the above promo, [...]

On Jan. 26, the local music blog All Our Noise posted an interview with Sean Gray and Chris Berry, the owners of College Park–based Fan Death Records. Chatting with reporter Denman C. Anderson, the pair discussed their favorite bands, the history of their label, and their plans to release a comedy LP.
The D.C. blogosphere went [...]

Jacques, Reid, and Stas—they're just three normal, cosmopolitan, well-coiffed, impossibly handsome guys. Reid, he's the literary one, a regular Chekhov in khakis. Stas: Siberia-born but American as apple pie. As for Jacques? Mothers, lock up your daughters. This Australian photographer shoots to kill.
The stars of Gant's new campaign for its Rugger line know how to [...]

Middle Distance Runner performs at the CMJ Music Marathon in 2008.
Every CMJ has its success story—the unknown act who, thanks to buzz and grit and talent and luck , tickles the right trigger of the wayfaring label rep or taste-maker who, for whatever reason, has decided to see it. But most of the thousand-plus little-known [...]