Back catalogue: Funk Soul & Jazz

Notes: The new Disco Pogo (issue 6) has 3 incredible covers - either the epic and enigmatic Justice, the spellbinding Kelly Lee Owens or the incomparable Sade.

Inside feast on the incredible story of 808 State, key moments from 30 years of Bugged Out!, Dave Clarke on how he made the Red Series, NY's young upstarts Fcukers, Daptone's Jalen Ngonda, find out where Lemon Jelly are now, delve into The Archive with LFO, check out Lou Hayter's 'Unfamiliar Skin', go deep on Manuel Gottsching, rewind to reader's questions with Richie Hawtin, let Sean Johnston tell you the story of A.L.F.O.S, immerse yourself in Spiritual Jazz, get to know System Olympia and much more.

184 pages of quality music journalism, photography and design in a beautiful magazine with three lovely covers.

Viva acid house!

*** This magazine has three different covers - we can't guarantee which one you're going to get! ***

Notes: 124 page magazine including a wide range of interesting articles on disco, jazz, rap, hip-hop, funk, house, rollerdisco and the graffiti & breakdancing culture.

Furthermore, you will find vintage advertisements and magazine articles mainly from the 1970s to the 1990s.

In this issue, articles:

- Graffiti Rock 40 by Koe Rodriguez
- Sophie Bramly Interview by Patrick Thevenin
- Alexander Robotnik Interview by Oliver Way
- East Village Eye by Pat Vogt
- Vintage Mexican hi-energy/disco sound system posters
- Mizell Brothers' brilliance by Facts On WaxMize;
- Hot Molton Lava by Marcel Vogel

And way more!

Notes: Hot Stuff issue 14:

120 page magazine including a wide range of interesting articles on disco, jazz, rap, hip-hop, funk, house and the graffiti & breakdancing culture. Furthermore, you will find vintage advertisements and magazine articles mainly from the 1970's to the 1990's.

In this issue, articles :
- Blind Buys top 10 by Dave Lee
- Joey Beltram By Oliver Way - EPM Music
- Chilly Q and Kevy Kev Interview By Jason Armitage (DR.J)
- Exploring the History of French Hip Hop Through 80s and 90s Flyers
- IGTimes - It's Serious business sucker Interview With David Schmidlapp By Pat Vogt
- Vintage articles of Kool And The gang and Bootsy Collins.
- The Mystery of Black Belt Jones by Skeme Richards (The Nostalgia King)

Notes: Maggot Brain is brought to you by Third Man Records, under the eye of the 'zine wizard Mike McGonigal. Maggot Brain, a full-colour quarterly with heavy cover stock.

Issue 1: Dec/Jan/Feb 2020.

Notes: Cover art by Detroit-based graphic artist Lucy Cahill depicts Wanda Jackson as an alien because why not; with additional recent works by her inside the issue.

Glasgow's justly beloved Belle & Sebastian, hot on the heels of a US tour and their best record in ages, deliver unto us decades' worth of posters and ephemera, with an interview with Stuart Murdoch on the history of the group's aesthetics. Novelist and longtime friend David Gordon lets us run the full text of his archival talk with celebrated painter and author Duncan Hannah (RIP -- and yes he goes into detail about the Lou Reed incident described in Please Kill Me). Kevin Esquire spent hours with Motown's almost-star from the 1960s and '70s, Christina Carter, and we have unpublished archival images and many amazing anecdotes.

Speaking of Motown, did you know that the son of the great Marxist/Black liberation activist CLR James was in 'mixed race' band Odyssey, who had a record on Motown? We have a great feature on that. Fascinating discussion between guitarist-singer-songriter-innovators Chris Forsyth and Steve Wynn.

There is an amazing excerpt from Ben Berton's new book on Dan Treacy and the TV Personalities, detailing how the first 7" came together and John Peel inadvertently named the band. Nate Carlson goes deep on the Tony Iommi era of Black Sabbath. Why Buffy Saint-Marie matters, now more than ever, by writer and musician Emily Pothast. One of our favorite writers, Sara Jaffe, tells us how her own grandfather wrote the song 'I'm My Own Grandpa'! No, really! That alone is worth admission. Plus -- there's a terrific and long and excellently illustrated feature on the country and experimental steel guitarist Barry Walker Jr by Tom Humphrey.

Our SF Indie Scene Report: 2022 is so well done that it's going to knock your socks off. Plus, Lucy Sante and Mimi Lipson and the tape column and Katie Lass on her soon-to-be classic Hypnopomp LP and the great Jay Ruttenberg on Sessa, whew.

Plus, also of course beautiful images galore, and more besides.

Notes: On the cover: This issue is dedicated to the memory of astral traveling saxophone colossus Pharoah Sanders, with a tremendous evaluation of his most important work by the great music writer Andy Beta as the cover feature, rare images by Leni Sinclair, and a brief remembrance by film director Jeff Feuerzeig.

Columns: Lucy Sante - New column is about her collage practice, which was unknown until recently. Unsurprisingly it's great work; Mimi Lipson - Returns with another advice column filled with warmth, humor, and even advice; Jazz Roundtable - with Ben Jaffe, Sam Cohen, Bekah Flynn, and Makaya McCraven: New Orleans' entire history as refracted through the work of Charlie Gabriel of the Preservation Hall Jazz Band, an absolutely deep and important piece; Thinking Fellers - An overview related to new reissues, written by none other than your favorite writer from Bananafish; Some Churches - Amazing images of small churches, rural and urban, from the collection of the Library of Congress.

Also featuring: Mick Collins - Tremendous career-spanning feature on the Gories/Dirtbombs frontman by the great RJ Smith; Lambchop - A great new album for Merge and an expansive theater piece Kathy Lindenmayer goes deep with leader Kurt Wagner; XV - Detroit's new no wave supergroup deconstructs an interview, with musician Adam Taub; Ghost Riders - '60s/70s North American downer psych-pop/ garage 'Coming of Age Garage Ballads,' Glen Morren turns in a lengthy overview; Ernest Hood - A feature on the heralded Pac NW ambient composer, amazing ephemera to choose from courtesy the RVNG peeps; The HI Rhythm Section - Tennie, Charles, and Leroy! An often hilarious feature by Jason Gross from Perfect Sound Forever; Edel Rodriguez - Contemporary Cuban-American graphic artist interviewed by Britt Daniel from Spoon --they've collaborated together; Wednesday Knudsen - An overview of the work of this genius rural Massachusetts-based contemporary zone folk goddess, by Michelle Dove; Alpaca Brothers - In depth feature by Matt Goody (whose new book on Flying Nun's history is a must); Matthew Dickman - The great skater poet and poet/skater, introduced by Alex Behr;¬ Charles Gillam Sr. - Gabe from Desert Island interviews the New Orleans-based music obsessive and folk artist; King Kong - Former Homestead Records honcho Ken Katkin is here with ten trenchant observations on a reunion show by Louisville's finest.

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: -BJORK: This cover feature is a career-spanning piece by Tamara Palmer on Iceland's most noted export since the foundation of their parliament in 930, with a terrifically gorgeous cover image by Marly Beyer. -MARCELLUS HALL delivers a 30-plus page excerpt from a graphic novel about life in indie-rock in the early 1990s that's stunning and lyrical.

-Hot on the heels of their world tour, it's an engaging photo essay from Detroit's premier music photographer Doug Coombe on the return of garage punk heroes BE YOUR OWN PET. -Mike Turner spends serious time with BMX champion CHELSEA WOLFE, right when she might be suspended from competition for being trans. -Ana Gavrilovska digs deep into the work of up-and-coming multimedia artist WAYNE PHOENIX. -Uncharacterizable instrumental musicians PENGUIN CAFE are back (under the direction of originator Simon Jeffes' son Arthur Jeffes) and Kurt Reighley is writing beautifully on them. (Their first two records for Eno's label are The Shit.) Cassette tape reviews; Lucy Sante delivers a tribute to the olden days of mp3 blogs.

Mimi Lipson weighs in on cats versus dogs in her advice column; Andy Beta talks of Annea Lockwood in the Icons column; the reissue of the issue is a box set of Pauline Anna Strom, by Michelle Dove; Fred Thomas on "why Sonic Youth's most underrated record deserves a second look" (guess which one it is!); an overview of reissue label Mesh Key for a new column on the people who run labels and stuff like that. In the new column Tracked (on music supervisors) Martin Douglas talks to Tiffany Anders, and it's largely about her work on RESERVATION DOGS! Then there's the column PHYSICAL GRAFFITI by editor McGonigal, an epic look at dozens of recent LP releases plus a few books (that's right, it's a bona fide multi-page record review column), plus the debut of Maggot Brain's food column with a disastrous visit to the Russian Tea Room courtesy of noted genius QUINTRON.

Notes: The Velvet Underground- with multiple features on your favorite band, with rare images and cool ephemera throughout, as well as A Guide To The Velvet Underground's Live Tape Stash by Tyler Wilcox. Plus, full length reviews of new reissues of cassette tapes by ur-VU drummer Angus MacLise, and a lengthy appreciation by Stephen Thomas Erlewine of Light in the Attic's excellent pre-VU Lou Reed set. Plus features on TV On The Radio, Antietem & Sleepyhead, 12XU Records, Sweeping Promises, Razor Praids, The Sonics, Department Store Santas, and much more.

Notes: COVER FEATURE is a three-parter on MOONDOG.
Phone interview with him from 1998, some amazing never-before-seen-images, and crucially this series of archival interviews from 1953.

SHANA CLEVELAND
The singer-songwriter / La Luz leader's hand-written/illustrated tour diary chronicles a European tour with her own newborn baby, and it's really unlike anything you've seen or read before.

GAINESVILLE RIOT '88
On tour supporting 'Bug,' the immense DINOSAUR JR'S laconic wall of sound helped to start a riot at their show in a Florida university hall. Thankfully Kevin Arrow was there with slide film in his camera to capture the event. These images have never been seen before.

Notes: Maggot Brain is a full-color, quarterly magazine edited by noted Detroit scribe Mike McGonigal: 100+ pages packed with phenomenal content - art, music, literature, unpublished archival material, and more - with a simple promise to only exist on the printed page. This issue contains pieces on: Bikini Kill, Boris, Endless Boogie, New Kingdom, The Clean, ELO, Archie Shepp, Echo and the Bunnymen, Primal Scream, The Guerilla Girls, Planetary Peace.

ON THE COVER:

Amazing unseen image of Bikini Kill live at CBGB in 1990, by Mike Galinsky, with accompanying lengthy photo essay exploring indie-rock in the early 1990s, including behind-the-scenes, unpublished black-and-white film images of Sonic Youth, Unwound, Mary Timony, Sleepyhead, Half Japanese, and more.

Notes: The 24th issue of the New York music magazine focuses on the figure of Sun Ra.

Sun Ra (1914-1993) is an African-American experimental jazz pianist and composer. A prolific artist, he recorded over one-hundred albums with his band, the Sun Ra Arkestra. His work is imprinted with esoteric elements drawn from a personal cosmic philosophy that had a great influence on Afrofuturism.

A quarterly journal founded in 2012 by Nate Wooley, providing in-depth interviews and essays, Sound American starts from a simple desire to open the doors of experimental music to a wider audience. Sound American believes that music is for everyone and should be shared on the most basic human level. Sound American aims to accomplish this by creating a direct intellectual, social, and emotional bridge that links audiences and artists.

Notes: A year in the making and weighing in at a whopping 144 pages, #SNC100 Vol.1 maintains the Interplanetary Sounds: Ancient To Future vision and unites fresh new features with re-mixed classics from the archive.

Featuring:

NU SKOOL: IG Culture meets Steam Down, Kahil El'Zabar, Shirley Tetteh, Rosie Turton, Ishmael Ensemble and James Brandon Lewis & Thomas Sayers-Ellis.

ARCHIVE: Pharoah Sanders, Yusef Lateef, Abbey Lincoln, Dr John, Terry Callier, Gary Bartz, McCoy Tyner & Fontella Bass.

Label/Imprints: Soul Jazz/Brownwood. Plus: Undercurrents, Charts & Reviews...

- Softback
- 144 pages
- Size 270mm (h) x 210mm (w)
- 3 colour - pantone 877 + pantone319 + black

Notes: #SNC99 - over 130 pages - connects with band-leaders Cassie Kinoshi (SEED Ensemble), Tenderlonious (22a), Femi Koleoso (Ezra Collective) and keys whiz Joe Armon-Jones.

Also in the mix are a host of spirited individuals like Midori Takada, Nabihah Iqbal, Nat Birchall and Ben LeMar Gay. The London- Lagos-Accra connection is explored alongside Durban's Qgom scene.

On the indie imprint tip there's Gondwana, Jazz re:freshed, Detroit Love and On the Corner.

For the crate diggers there's Motown's Black Forum + nuff reviews. There's no room for complacency when it comes to getting your copy.