Book Contents

• Indepth, archival interview from 1997 with scifi author OCTAVIA BUTLER, the MacArthur "genius" award winner who died earlier this year.
  
• Brutally honest tour diary by Will Sheff, the OKKERVIL RIVER guy.
  
• DREW DANIEL of Matmos tell us "How To Sing Along to 'Sweet Home Alabama.'"
  
• Crime writer/historian PETER DOYLE unearths archival crimescene photos from Australia (these things are amazing and the text and images rival Luc Sante's brilliant 'Evidence' book).
  
• Dan Bejar of DESTROYER is interviewed by his eight-year-old mini-me.
  
• The legacy of street-corner gospel-blues great REV. LOUIS OVERSTREET.
  
• Psychedelic painter FRED TOMASELLI talks in-depth about his art and his punk/ fanzine beginnings.
  
• MEREDITH BROSNAN goes off about the ABC NO RIO open-mic scene in NYC in the mid'80s.
  
• Interviews with SAM LIPSYTE, TODD BARRY, SOULED AMERICAN, PETER LAMBORN WILSON, and THE BLOW.
  
• Fiction by STACEY LEVINE, VANESSA VESELKA, and JANA MARTIN.
  
• Gorgeous full-page illos by the likes of JESSE LEDOUX, NICOLE GEORGES and GREGG EINHORN.

CD Tracks
All songs previously unreleased!

1. KATHARINA TUNICATA,
   
2. RADIO FOUR, "How Much I Owe"
   
3. DESTROYER, "No One Needs to Know"
   
4. BOBBY BIRDMAN, "Victory at Sea" (E*Rock remix)
   
5. BRIGHT, "One, So Remain"
   
6. CALIFONE, "The Orchids (Krassner mix)"
   
7. ALELA DIANE, "My Brambles"
   
8. DOLPHIN BAND (FEVEN & SIRAK), "Welanureiney"
   
9. MICHAEL HURLEY with TARA JANE O'NEIL, "Music for El Dorado"
   
10. GHOSTING, "Azalea"
    
11. FAUNA POLLY, "Corvallis"
    
12. SOMOS MARQUIS HOMOS, "Down and Out in Madrid and Barcelona" (live)
    
13. GERHARD TREDE AND HIS ELECTRONIC INSTRUMENTS, "Motion Study #1"
    
14. ROB WALMART, "Tom's Lounge"
    
15. THE BLOW, "Get Around"
    
16. DESTROYER, "Forget America"
    
17. WE MARCH, "She Who Makes Dogs Shiver"
    
18. THE GOLDEN BEARS, "Our Progress"
    
19. WE/OR/ME, "Hummingbirds"
    
20. OKKERVIL RIVER, "Lines"
    
21. THE PLANTS, "Tumbleweed" (edit)
    
22. PAGE FRANCE, "I Thought the Sun Was Yellow"
    
23. FLY ASHTRAY, "Rapscallion"
    
24. SOULED AMERICAN, "Ringside Suite"
    
25. REVEREND E. W. CLAYBORN, "God's Riding through the Land"
    
26. VALET, "Blood Is Clean"
    
27. THEO ANGELL, "In About a Half an Hour"
    
28. UNKNOWN, "Chemirocha"