Issue #19

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edited by noted Detroit scribe Mike McGonigal: 100+ pages packed with phenomenal content – art, music, literature, unpublished archival material, and more – with a simple promise to only exist on the printed page. ON THE COVER THE VELVET UNDERGROUND – Lost in Sound–Multiple features on your favorite band, with rare images and cool ephemera throughout. Here Come The Tapes: A Guide To The Velvet Underground’s Live Tape Stash by Tyler Wilcox. CONTENTS 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. - TV ON THE RADIO – “TV on the Radio and the Magic Negro Myth.” Martin Douglas on the band's visionary debut LP, Desperate Youth, Bloodthirsty Babes—and the lessons we haven't learned 20 years later. This piece is such a standout, wait until you read it. - PUNK DIARY – Excerpts from Hat & Beard Press’ I Feel Famous: Punk Diaries 1977-1980, written by a then-17-year-old Angela Jaeger. This diary was renown for years and has finally seen the light of day, with multiple images to support it. - SWEEPING PROMISES – A very visual look at the great, shimmering guitar-pop band. Their visual aesthetics so perfectly accompany their sound, and that’s discussed in detail for the first time.