We are featuring three bands in this issue that maybe you can love like we love: Low, AC/DC, and Maya Shore. Maybe most of you already love those first two bands, or maybe you have been too wrapped up in messier sorts of love to bother fully appreciating what Low and AC/DC have provided us with. In any case, maybe if you read our feature articles on them, you can start to love them, or maybe, at least, love them a little more than you did before. The third band we are featuring are friends of ours, so maybe it is not so good for us to ask you to love them. It is not as bad as spouse-swapping, but I feel almost as bad suggesting it. Anyway, maybe it would help if we gave away some copies of Maya Shore's album, to make us feel less bad about asking you to love them. Make sure you enter the contest so you can win a chance to love something.

We have one new interview this issue, but it is with one of our favorite bands of all time, the masters of slow, Low. Writer Dave Christensen met up with Alan, Mimi, and super-nanny Starfire when the band made a stop in Los Angeles on their latest tour. The interview starts with a tour of the highs and lows of the L.A. rock and roll lifestyle as Alan and Dave visit the guitar stores of Hollywood. The interview then goes quite in depth. Alan and Mimi talk about their feelings on each of their albums and how it reflected them as a band at that time as well as how they responded to their personal challenge of extending the use of slowness in music as far as possible, which is chronicled by those albums. The band also talks about their live shows, The Cure, frustrating performances, AC/DC, and their faith. To top it all off, the couple offers some excellent reading recommendations.

We also have another installment in our Cooler Than You series featuring great bands from long ago. In previous installments, we featured bands that were somewhat obscure, whose albums may be hard to find. The subject of this installment is the polar opposite; it is on AC/DC. If you never heard much of the band's material but were always interested based on covers from the Skin Graft double 7" (Shellac, US Maple, Palace, etc.) or Mark Kozelek (or if you are just looking for further validation in loving the band), then this article is a great place to start.

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