While we have ended up watching our Temptation Island tapes about 4 hours each day, we did find some time to put together an issue. There's two interviews, a few columns, and over 30 reviews.

Our first interview is with one of the best and most influential rock musicians of the 1990s, Ash Bowie of Polvo. During his time with Polvo, Bowie used his four-track to record a few solo sessions of playful, experimental songs. Recently, those recordings were released under the name Libraness, and our interview goes in depth on how and why those recordings were made and what Bowie plans on doing under the name Libraness in the future.

Our other interview is with one our current favorite artists, Jon Attwood, who records under the name Yellow 6. Attwood's music combines the atmospherics of drone with the rhythm of guitar-based post rock, like the best parts of Windy & Carl combined with the best parts of Aerial M. The interview covers how this one man band writes, records, and, in general, performs his magic.

This issue also sees the start of a new series of articles for fakejazz devoted to great bands of yore who seem to have fallen off the radar screen since their demise. The series is named Cooler Than You, as in, you may have never heard of these bands, but they are definitely cooler than you. The first band covered in the series is the seminal 1980s New Zealand band This Kind of Punishment.

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Look for our next issue on March 2nd. Thanks for gracing us with your presence.