A banger of an issue. Lou Reed is a cover story, as David Holzer digs deep into his provocative experimental double-LP Metal Machine Music, fifty years after its release. The Saints are back with the third part of an expansive interview with Ed Kuepper who talks about the band's adventures in the UK in 1977. The story of psychedelic mavericks Plasticland gets even freakier; Cheetah Chrome is interviewed about Rocket from the Tombs and the Dead Boys; Peter Stanfield exalts in the primal R&B sound of Them; and freewheeling Canadian folk-rocker Tom Northcott shares his remarkable story. Plus: the fascinating backstory of Pete Morticelli's 1967 moody garage killer 'Lost'; female Dutch psych rockers Cinderella; Duncan Fallowell on Bowie's Ziggy Stardust; Cyril Jordan on the Lovin' Spoonful; Bob Neuwirth on Janis Joplin; exotic guitar rocker Aris San; a tribute to the Pretty Things' Mark St John, and more. Not to forget, reviews of all the latest and greatest reissues and our esteemed book review section.
