CD art as metaphor: Atlanta's Southern Voice talks to the Indigo Girls about same-sex marriage and their new album, which features cover and interior-booklet illustrations by comic book artist Jaime Hernandez:

"Saliers describes the odd Hernandez-drawn storyline in the booklet, which involves a woman who plants statues from outer space in the desert, as 'a metaphor for the beautiful miracles the universe can provide.'

"'The cover art is this woman on a pipe, but to me, it is a balance between nature and the destruction of nature,' she says."