"Coming up in the March issue of the music zine that knows how to unpack a riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma: part two of David Keenan's landmark exclusive interview with that international musician of mystery Jandek. Derek Walmsley wanders the highways and byways of ghettoville with Actress, Michael E Veal provides a user's guide to the recordings of art music master Steve Lacy, and all the (un)usual world-beating news, views, reviews and more from deep inside the global new music underground."-Wire

Actress
Darren Cunningham's soundworld filters South London angst and atmos into abstract private dance music. By Derek Walmsley

Jandek Redux
Following last month's epic interview with the Corwood Industries enigma, David Keenan continues his search for the riddle wrapped in the mystery

The Primer Steve Lacy
A user's guide to the avant jazz strategies, soprano sax chirps and wayward art song of one of improvised music's great iconoclasts. By Michael E Veal

Invisible Jukebox Ellen Fullman
The long string composer gets tangled up in The Wire's mystery record selection. Tested by Geeta Dayal

Gnod
Cosmic music from the Manc street preachers. By Abi Bliss

Specter
Laying pipe bombs underneath Chicago house structures. By Rory Gibb

Continuous Tone
David Blamey's conceptual 12" series. By Adrian Shaughnessy

Beatriz Ferreyra
Pierre Schaeffer's former assistant makes her own dynamic audio. By Robert Barry

Global Ear Kuala Lumpur
Crate digging culture is transforming Malaysia's musical output. By Chris Menist

Cross Platform Arcadia
William Basinski's Brooklyn performance art paradise regained. By Jim Haynes

The Inner Sleeve
Test Dept's Paul Jamrozy on Górecki's Symphony No 3

Epiphanies
Carla Bozulich recalls a reluctant parting with Billie Holiday's Lady Sings The Blues

Print Run
New music books: 8 Assimilate: A Cultural History Of Industrial Music by S Alexander Reed
Earth Sound Earth Signal: Energies And Earth Magnitude In The Arts by Douglas Kahn
How To Know: Spirit Music - Crazy Wisdom, Shamanism And Trips To The Black Sky by Ken Hyder
Lieder, Zeichen, Forschungen by Die Welttraumforscher
Singing From The Floor: A History Of British Folk Clubs by JP Bean

On Screen
The Stuart Hall Project DVD

On Site
Brazil: Arte/Musica, Warsaw, Poland

On Location
Recent festivals, gigs and clubs: 84 Steve Gunn & Band, Cafe Oto, London, UK
Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival, Huddersfield, UK
Karenn + Midland + Sunil Sharpe + Surgeon, London, UK
Sound Art China, West Bund, Shanghai, China
Vessel + Giant Swan + H + Oliver Wilde, Bristol, UK
Jennifer Walshe + Richard Skelton + Rie Nakajima + Line Lapelyte, Queen Elizabeth Hall, London, UK