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Notes: The top cover story this issue: the Futuristic Sounds of the Yardbirds; writer Peter Stanfield explores their change of direction in 1965, their rivalry with The Who and lots more. Also featured: Detroit rock pioneers the Chosen Few, the band that spawned future members of SRC and the Stooges, the compelling story of UK '70s punk outsiders the Subway Sect as told by guitarist Rob Symmons; '70s power pop princes the Paley Brothers; Viennese proto-punk anarchists Novaks Kapelle; the sixties adventures of Matthew and Daniel Moore (the Moon, Colours, Matthew Moore Plus Four); and a fascinating study of the beat music industry behind the Iron Curtain during the Cold War. Plus: Moby Grape, the Ascots, Cyril Jordan on Little Richard, and our meticulous review sections, covering all the latest vinyl and CD reissues, and rock 'n' roll-related books. (152 pages)

Notes: Maggot Brain Issue 16: Spring 2024

This is a really packed, special issue of Maggot Brain, with the feature cover story a comprehensive interview by celebrated writer Sasha Frere-Jones with essayist, Lucy Sante (who's written for every issue of MB since the start), on the occasion of her awesome memoir about transitioning, I Heard Her Call My Name.

Phill Niblock: A tribute to the genius musician, filmmaker, label head, and generous promoter of ecstatic sound, by Steve Silverstein.

Tresa Leigh: An in-depth feature on the star of Efficient Space's beloved Ghost Riders compilation! Really a beautiful, untold story.

Dredd Foole: As his legacy is revealed through Corbett vs Dempsey's archival series, Foole talks to Six Organs of Admittance's Ben Chasny about the role of his band the Din in the Boston underground. Plus sidebars from Christina Carter, Kris Price, and Phil Milstein.

Loopsel: Mike McGonigal on some of the most elusive, beautiful contemporary music, straight out of Gothenburg.

Jeff Noon: An illuminating interview with the British speculative writer on his newest work as well as the 30th anniversary of the stunning Vurt.

Sleater-Kinney: 30 vital years of uncompromising music, by none other than Audrey Golden!

Hudson of Feature Inc.: A celebration of the most innovative gallerist of our lifetime on the occasion of the Soberscove Press book about his work and life.

Shabazz Palaces: The creator of vital, spiritual hip-hop beautifully interviewed by Detroit-based musician and writer Zachary Weedon.

Birtha: Nate Carson's in-depth feature on the pioneering, all-women boogie-choogle act.

Shonto Begay: One of Maggot Brai's favourite contemporary writers, JD O'Brien, in deep discussion with the great Native American painter-with particular emphasis on how his works engage with and are influenced by music. This piece alone is so well-written and illustrated it's worth buying the issue for.

Some columns: The debut of archivist Andy Zax's fabulous 'Extinctophonics' column! Cassette reviews, plus copious book and record reviews as well! Ana Gavrilovska on Detroit-based jazz duo Balance! Nate Carson on the Earth documentary, in the debut of the music documentary column! The latest Icons column finds Michelle Dove exploring the work of Chicago's beloved Douglas McCombs! 13 Questions for contemporary folk great Lael Neale by Mike McGonigal! And more Lucy Sante!

Notes: This issue features a major cover story on British Mod R&B heroes the Artwoods by Mike Stax, while Pop Art paintermen the Creation are the subject of a brilliant new fact-finding mission by Peter Stanfield. Doug Sheppard reveals the true story of '70s hard rock mystery group Stonewall and their mega-rare private press tax scam LP, Moby Grape's Don Stevenson shares photos and secrets from his early history, and there are interviews with pre-teen pop prodigy Mark Radice, and UK label head and A&R genius Andrew Lauder. Also: '60s Miami garage girls the Belles (of "Melvin" fame), Minnesota psych monsters C.A. Quintet, sublime singer-songwriter Fred Neil, a Doors/Sons of Adam love triangle, Laurie Anderson on Lou Reed, Cyril Jordan on the Yardbirds, and much more including our remarkable review sections, covering all the latest vinyl and CD reissues, and rock 'n' roll-related books. (144 pages)

Notes: 40 Years of Ugly Things

PJ Proby, William Penn & His Pals, Da Slyme, Lipsticks Killers Part 2 and more.

Notes: Check it out: Maggot Brain #13 is here. There's a slightly new look to the cover, which works so well with that amazing live shot of none other than Prince.

The cover story is a multi-part Prince feature with reprints of rare writings by the great writers Ann Powers, Michael A. Gonzales, and Greil Marcus.

Plus also:

- Mary Lattimore - the great LA-based harpist interviewed by RJ Smith.
- Audrey Golden's Thought I Heard You Speak book on the role of women in Factory Records is celebrated with an interview by Jessica Beard.
- Negativland - amazing huge very very in-depth feature on the whole 'Helter Stupid' debacle - strap on in for this one, by Cory Frye.
- Roussel + Duchamp, illustrated - Philippe Lapierre delivers dozens of real and super-real vignettes of a posthumous relationship, with beautiful pointillistic drawings.
- Stewart Lee by Richard Gehr - an awesome and dare-we-say-deep chat with the world's greatest living standup comedian.
- Katharina Kuhlenkampf drew this terrific comic strip about the delightful Go-Betweens song "Lee Remick."
- Emeralds - Fred Thomas on the much-missed Ann Arbor-based drone explorers.
- High Risk Group by Tim Alborn - the full, fascinating story of the excellent, obscure Boston based 1980s alt-rock group.
- Joshua Gamma - Murat Cem Menguc on the big show the artist curated which explores the relationship between Christian psychedelic aesthetics and American subcultures.

Killer columns: A really sweet one by Lucy Sante, return of the hip-hop column (Paula Perry this time), tape column, reissue column on the 1990s band Moss Icon by Fred Thomas, and Mimi Lipson's excellent advice column, the Korean pop psych great Kim Jung Mi -- and Dorothy Berry on being Black in experimental music spaces.

Notes: As the team behind Zweikommasieben takes its latest edition to ponder the essence of longevity, they arrive at several questions which they have worked through with their featured artists and writers. On the one hand, artistic traditions might be useful to lean on, to conjure an image and an accompanying gut feeling of a recent past. On the other hand, investing in the knowledge of traditions might allow to bend and twist them to explore ones own expression. Whether that is consciously incorporating sounds from the past to evoke historical resonances, as Courtesy did for her most recent album Violence of the Moodboard, or propelling the presentation of music forward into new traditions, such as in the work of Xzavier Stone who has recently started pairing scent with sound during his live performances. In a similar manner, Lateena Plummer proposes new traditions for a dancehall scene which finally makes space for marginalized identities and voices, a purpose directly derived from her experiences in the past, which she openly speaks about in conversation with Anna Froelicher.

When Beatriz de Rijke decided to work under the moniker Bea1991, she did this as a conscious anchoring in time, with the latter part of the name being a direct reference to her year of birth. One can imagine that a birthdate might be one of the only constants in life: one that will forever connect someone to a certain generation, and maybe even to a global cultural zeitgeist.

Zweikommasieben #27 includes

-Interviews with / portraits on Bea1991, Christian Marclay, Courtesy, Divide and Dissolve, DJ Loser, Lateena Plummer, Somatic Rituals, and Xzavier Stone
-essays on "New Moon" by Children of the Light for Darkside
- a column on Rike Scheffle's work
- a contribution by Lou Lou Sainsbury
All content in English; 92pages; 230x305mm

Zweikommasieben is a magazine that has been devoted to the documentation of contemporary music and sound since the summer of 2011. The magazine features artist interviews, essays, and columns as well as photography, illustration, and graphics.

Quotes (previous editions):

Dekmantel - "So well worth getting your hands on a copy!"

Where To Now? - "Zweikommasieben is the best mag out."

abcdinamo - "A beautifully designed must read on electronic music."

Thomas Lennon - "Zweikommasieben is automatic purchase every issue."

Tom Mouna - "(...) probably the best magazine for anyone interested in the key figures in contemporary electronic music."

Rubadub - "One of our fav mags for sure."

Sara Berts (Gang of Ducks) - "Every issue of the magazine is a typographic gem."

&mags - "A journey of discovery through contemporary music."

A s h (Do Hits, Taiwan Beats) - "Underground community's DIY spirit never fails."

Magculture - "From its 2011 beginnings, the magazine has had an inherent confidence. It's a magazine that takes good design and rigorous journalism just as seriously as the music. The interviews themselves are pacy and interesting, the antithesis of basic promotional content."

Rob Booth (Houndstooth) - "Another essential magazine..."

Rewind Forward -"Now in its 18th edition, [zweikommasieben] is a testament to this rather solid DIY venture from a group of friends [...]. Each zine packs a masterclass in design-each one has a different look and feel-whether it's a curious mix of page sizings, colour photos offset on newsprint, foil sleeves etc etc. They're always a pleasure to unfold..."

Notes: ***B-STOCK: Small tears on corners, but product is in excellent condition and in perfect working order***


This cover story focuses on NYC garage-pop wizards the Magicians ('An Invitation to Cry') and the fascinating twilight world of Greenwich Village in the mid-sixties.

Also: The remarkable story of Jefferson Airplane's first bass player Bob Harvey is revealed for the first time, along with the saga of '60s garage heroes the Chancellors (famous for the Back From the Grave fave 'On Tour'). Mark Cunningham of '70s New York no wave renegades Mars is interviewed, David Holzer explores Lou Reed's obsession with the white light mysticism of Alice Bailey, and the mystery of Phantom's Divine Comedy is unravelled (rumored at the time to be the recently deceased Jim Morrison in disguise).

Plus, Part 2 of the story of Detroit proto-punkers the Dogs, and much more, including our popular review sections, covering all the latest vinyl and CD reissues, and rock 'n' roll-related books.

Notes: "All in the Golden Afternoon We Glide" (Realia006) is the forthcoming record from LATHE 00, the new moniker under which Umbria-based artist Leonardo Carloni has recently started to operate. Preceded by several collaborative undertakings, LATHE 00's debut solo album is akin to an experiment in autotheory, where art-making practice and theoretical inquiry are entwined to the point of being virtually inseparable. Through the combined use of autobiographical and philosophical elements, "All in the Golden Afternoon We Glide" meditates on individuality, technology, and new forms of post-human existence.

The record has been conceived as a three-act project, with each act comprising four compositions that correspond to as many recurring themes: birth, love, death, and emptiness. Produced over the course of two years, the album has a total of twelve tracks, the majority of which run for less than two and a half minutes. As the album progresses, it becomes increasingly clear that these tracks are not simply standalone pieces of music, but rather outtakes from a single, continuously mutating continuum.

LATHE 00's first feature is a work of rare beauty. As a one-person debut project, its stylistic variety, compositional maturity, and technical rigor are outstanding. By combining a forward-looking production style with references as varied as ambient, hyper-pop, instrumental post-rock, world-beat, and modern classical and folk music, LATHE 00 develops a mode of expression that transgresses genres and is distinctively his own. The result is a signature sound that feels equally primordial and hyper-contemporary, fleshly visceral and digitally detached. The inclusion of the artist's own vocals in the music is a notable aspect of this style. Alongside sampled materials, his non-lexical vocalizations appear as both an affirmative and negative act, simultaneously gesturing towards bodiless dissolution and a desire to reclaim one's all-too-embodied presence in this world.

Despite its foundation in profound theoretical underpinnings, "All in the Golden Afternoon We Glide" surprisingly relies solely on wordless communication. As a result, the song titles become key conduits of information. Appealing primarily to the listener's sense of sight, they are used in a way that seamlessly blends the aesthetics of the digital ("Loading of Image Aborted!"), natural (the title track), and ritualistic (Pouring Blood into the Lake).

The album will be released in digital format, along with a limited-edition zine conceptualised and designed by Lidia Ginga Cozzupoli and Bernardo Berga. Drawing upon a diverse array of captivating images procured from open-source digital libraries, the zine endeavours to explore the narratives, symbolism, and hidden layers of significance interwoven within each of the album's tracks. It achieves this through a visual exploration of the four central themes that shape the record, which recur as cyclical motifs throughout both the album and the accompanying zine.

Edition of 30
12 pages
Screen-printed envelope 16x23 cm
Hand-numbered copies
Includes a QR code for high-quality album download

Notes: Maggot Brain Issue 14 is coming. The Fall 2023 issue is jam-packed!

Cover boy Harry Smith shines thanks to a cheeky, never-before published photo by Allen Ginsberg. We celebrate the life and work of the self-described "ethnopharmacologist" just in time for the release of John Szwed's illuminating biography and Smith's first one-person art exhibition, at the Whitney, with three killer, well-illustrated features (on his Anthology of American Folk Music, an interview by Marc Masters with Szwed, and a terrific dive into Smith's relationship with fellow visual artist and filmmaker Jordan Belson by Raymond Foye). Also in this issue: Andy Beta on the reissue of a forgotten Lou Reed record. Excerpts from two revelatory works- Andy Zax's Extinctophonics, and Christina Ward's Holy Food. Kathy Lindenmayer witnesses a show by Boygenius. An archival interview with fabric arts pioneer and Bauhaus OG, Anni Albers. An illustrated Advance Base tour diary by Owen Ashworth. Tamara Palmer considers the oddball career arc of Orbital. Andy Beta goes deep on Tetsu Inoue. Nate Lippens goes off on Rene Ricard and other obsessions. And Michelle Dove on Cat Power's sense of humour! Plus illustrations throughout by Marly Beyer; and columns by Lucy Sante, Mimi Lipson, Dwight Pavlovic, and editor Mike McGonigal; tributes to Sixto Rodriguez, Esp Summer, and Pee-Wee Herman; and the triumphant return of the Unstapled column, with reproductions of a contemporary basketball fanzine.

Notes: Disco Beats has created a disc guide zine in paper format.

The theme is domestic disco 7-inch B-sides.

Please get a copy of this zine and go on a treasure hunt at record stores.

Most of the records in the zine can be obtained for a few hundred yen.

(Some of them are chill soul, and some are disco.)

Notes: This disc guide presents a collection of over 100 releases from 2012 to 2021 by HAUSU MOUNTAIN, a Chicago label with impressive visuals that use materials that resemble video game pixels.

It has a strong experimental colour, but has a variety of musical styles, including rock and techno.

The author Muimix has created a mix using only Hausu Mountain music to accompany the writing.

Please listen to it for reference before you buy or for background music when you read after your purchase.

Notes: This is a disc guide to the works of Brooklyn-based label RVNG Intl. which released a catalog number 100 work (Satomimagae "Awa (Expanded)") this year.

In the early days, the label focused on dance music, but gradually began to release a wide range of content.

The label is also characterized by facing history and the past with as much passion as it directs toward real-time music, such as the "FRKWYS" series, which connects great predecessors with contemporary artists, and an unusually extensive reissue business.

Notes: Zweikommasieben Magazin #28

The sound of each individual's voice is thought to be entirely unique. Like a fingerprint, its composition is distinct, nuanced, and one-of-a-kind.

While all this is true, it's a concept that has been challenged in recent times by the refinement of AI powered systems which are able to emulate voices to a tee. And not only voices, for that matter, but whole styles and aesthetics: an AI-generated facsimile of Drake and The Weeknd's voices titled "Heart on My Sleeve" made the rounds this year and was even submitted for Grammy consideration. It's a legitimate song and a proposal that does not only keep legal departments busy, but also allows for myriad reflections on originality and, bluntly, the future of music. But as the future of music is a broad and daunting topic to speculate on, we want to hone in on what's been prefaced above: issue #28 of Zweikommasieben centres the voice as means of expression, and wants to expand on what is meant by that: it's not only what is heard, but also why a voice is used and by whom. This latest edition considers what it means to voice, and its physical, societal and political dimensions.

Zweikommasieben #28 includes:

-interviews with / portraits on Bela, Krista Papista, DJ Voices, Tianzhuo Chen,Meth Math, Rainy Miller, Honour, Ziur, and Natural Wonder Beauty Concept
- an essay on fan culture
- columns on stimming and the work ofDjamil Image
- a contribution by Claudia Pages with Nora Haddad and nara is neus

All content in English

Zweikommasieben is a magazine that has been devoted to the documentation of contemporary music and sound since the summer of 2011. The magazine features artist interviews, essays, and columns as well as photography, illustration, and graphics.

Quotes (previous editions):

Dekmantel - "So well worth getting your hands on a copy!"

Where To Now? - "Zweikommasieben is the best mag out."

abcdinamo - "A beautifully designed must read on electronic music."

Thomas Lennon - "Zweikommasieben is an automatic purchase every issue."
Tom Mouna - "(...) probably the best magazine for anyone interested in the key figures in contemporary electronic music."

Rubadub - "One of our fav mags for sure."

Sara Berts (Gang of Ducks) - "Every issue of the magazine is a typographic gem."

&mags - "A journey of discovery through contemporary music."

A s h (Do Hits, Taiwan Beats) - "Underground community's DIY spirit never fails."

Magculture - "From its 2011 beginnings, the magazine has had an inherent confidence. It's a magazine that takes good design and rigorous journalism just as seriously as the music. The interviews themselves are pacy and interesting, the antithesis of basic promotional content."

Rob Booth (Houndstooth) - "Another essential magazine..."

Rewind Forward -"Now in its 18th edition, [zweikommasieben] is a testament to this rather solid DIY venture from a group of friends [...]. Each zine packs a masterclass in design-each one has a different look and feel-whether it's a curious mix of page sizings, colour photos offset on newsprint, foil sleeves etc etc. They're always a pleasure to unfold..."

Notes: Efficient Space publication ENTHUSIASMS revives with Issue #03. 92 pages covering Aotea-roa DIY folk proliferator Maxine Funke, the vocal magick of Cucina Povera, Australian devo-tional jazz mystery Singing Dust, Osaka portal EM Records, unsung dub specialist Sheriff Lin-do and the living practice of e fishpool. View post-punk trailblazers through the lens of Rotter-dam polaroid photographer Peter Graute, while Swiss artist Elise Gagnebin-de Bons exhibits her series of collages purposed for Ghost Riders. The issue also boasts imaginary mixtapes from Gavsborg, Greg Davis and Jefre Cantu-Ledesma, Mikey Young, Sonic Boom and Troth. Perfect bound and illuminated by designer Steele Bonus.