Issue #17

Cover: Unpublished Joe Dilworth photo of My Bloody Valentine, from sessions for their Isn’t Anything record! COVER FEATURE MY BLOODY VALENTINE: Revelatory, unpublished interview excerpts from hours of tapes with KEVIN SHIELDS by our editor Mike McGonigal conducted for his 33⅓ book on Loveless. Plus a great interview with JOE DILWORTH by Mike Galinsky and pages of his photos of London’s underground music scenes in the 1980s and ‘90s, including unseen images of MBV. PLUS ALSO TOO * WILL OLDHAM: Great, lengthy conversation with his collaborator and longtime friend NATHAN SALSBURG, on the occasion of their record of Lungfish covers. * HARVEY MILK: Epic(!), well-illustrated oral history of the pioneering ‘90s Athens, GA-based doom/ heavy-rock/ experimental/otherwise unclassifiable and influential band. * JUSTIN GREEN: New scans of the underground cartoonist’s music comics, many originally published in Tower’s Pulse magazine. 18 full pages, with text by comics historian John Kelly! * HOME BLITZ: Jay Ruttenberg on Princeton’s secret weapon of smartypants post-punk. * EMAHOY TSEGUE-MARYAM GUEBROU: Mississippi Records dips into their archives of the visionary Ethiopian nun/ pianist/ composer to give us unseen images from her home studio and other gems. * DOUGIE BOWNE:The great Michelle Dove on the prolific NC-based drummer, who’s worked with Lou Reed, Iggy Pop, the Lounge Lizards, and many more. COLUMNS: LUCY SANTE/ TAPES/ Adam Taub on WFMU-Hamtramck’s beloved polka DJ STASHU, who last weekend got married on the air as a fundraiser./ RECORD REVIEWS/ ADVICE COLUMN/ EXTINCTOPHONICS by Andy Zax/ FILM: Romanian screwball RADU JUDE, director of Do Not Expect Too Much From the End of the World.