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Artists:

Chris Abbott, Bobby Conn, Lol Coxhill, Satoko Fujii, Nagisa Ni te, Jim O'Rourke, Marina Rosenfeld, Kaija Saariaho, Patti Smith

Contributors:

Christoph Cox, Andy Hamilton, Ken Hollings, Jerry Hopkins, David Keenan, Anton Nikkilä, Edwin Pouncey, Peter Shapiro, Ben Watson

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ON THE COVER: Jim O'Rourke - His recent appointment as Sonic Youth's fifth member hasn't cured avant music's most workaholic producer. David Keenan hears about O'Rourke's new LPs of Southern fried boogie and Mego electronica, and why Chicago sucks

FEATURES: Invisible Jukebox: Lol Coxhill, Kaija Saariaho, The Soviet noise network, Bobby Conn, Nagisa Ni te, Blectum From Blechdom, Charley Patton, Dave Douglas, Manhattan Stories: Lee Ranaldo, Stephen Vitiello, Skiz Fernando, Alan Licht and more