ON THE COVER: Zakir Hussain - In Shakti, the West Coast based percussion virtuoso established the tabla as a frontline solo instrument. Now he's conducting East-West summits with Mickey Hart, Talvin Singh, Bill Laswell and more. By Richard Henderson
FEATURES: Christian Wolff, HIM, Invisible Jukebox: Otomo Yoshihide, Primer: British Folk, Beta Bodega Coalition, Rob Ellis, Bill Wells
ON THE COVER: Chicago Stories - David Keenan flies to the Windy City to investigate the post-rock and avant jazz of Rob Mazurek and his Isotope 217 mob, and traces a web of connections from the AACM to Tortoise
FEATURES: Sainkho Namtchylak, Dan the Automator, Tangent: Walls of sound: a survey of sonic architects, Invisible Jukebox: Add N To (X), Janek Schafer
On The Cover: wire200.net - Adventures In Music Online: 200 essential websites
Features: Dave Douglas, Gamelan Primer, Anticon, Jimi Tenor's Jukebox, Lee Ranaldo, Diamanda Galas, I-Sound, Jack Nitzsche, Godspeed!, Sun Ra, David Sylvian
On The Cover: Royal Trux. These tramps were born to burn: Neil Hagerty and Jennifer Herrema pour their shared affinity for scuzzy art, musique concrete and harmolodics into high-octane trailerpark rock noise. By Edwin Pouncey
Features: Burnt Friedman, Francisco Lopez, Sunny Murray's Jukebox, Tangents #2: Back To The Roots, Luther Blissett, Joseph Suchy, Lois V Vierk
ON THE COVER: Merzbow: Come on feel the noise
FEATURES: Simon H Fell: Orchestrated chaos, Steve Severin's jukebox, Phoenecia, Art Ensemble of Chicago, Bob Cobbing
ON THE COVER: Tongue-twisting with Anti-Pop Consortium, Mike Ladd, Sonic Sum, Dose One
FEATURES: Sun Ra, Stockhausen, Parliament, Hawkwind, William Hooker, Toshimaru Nakamra, Reynols, Kim Gordon's Jukebox, 23 Skidoo
ON THE COVER: Pole - Deutsche Dub Foundation
FEATURES: Harry Smith, Yo La Tengo's Jukebox, Hamza El Din, Erik M, Lou Reed, Nico, John Cale
On The Cover: As London's Hayward Gallery hosts the largest retrospective of sonic art the UK has ever seen, we present a guide to the visualisation of multiple, hybrid soundworlds
Features: Brian Eno, Christian Marclay, Evan Parker's Jukebox, Godspeed You Black Emperor!, Laurie Anderson, Dylan Group, Iain Ballamy
ON THE COVER: Coil - Beginning To See The Light
FEATURES: Morton Subotnick, Sussan Deyhim's Jukebox, Einsturzende Neubauten, Gunter Muller, Kid-606, Kim Cascone
On The Cover: Wire - Spanner In The Works
Features: Rahied Ali, Bill Laswell's Jukebox, Richard H Kirk, Vladislav Delay, Haco, Kimmo Pohjonen, Moondog, The Residents, Coil, Magma, La Monte Young
ON THE COVER: Quannam projects: DJ Shadow, Blackalicious, Latyrx
FEATURES: Lemmy's Jukebox, Kid Koala, Ultra-Red, Scott Walker, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Jonathan Harvey, Pierre Henry, Talvin Singh, Tom Verlaine, Mike Kelley