Our first interview for this issue is with Brian McMahan who was in some band called Slint (don't ask me because I've never heard of them but Dave Christensen, who did the interview, said they used to be pretty popular back in the day) and The For Carnation. This interview runs the bases fron how McMahan has reacted to the post-breakup popularity of Slint (again, don't ask me, I am just going on what I was told) to how exactly they got Kim Deal to sing on that one The For Carnation song. Above all, though, it shows the best way to get rockers to answer questions is to first make them eat with their hands.

Our second interview for this issue is with Sonna, a great band on Temporary Residence fresh off the heels of recording their full length debut with Steve Albini at Electrical Audio. Both These Windows are Pistons and The Eventual Bow EPs have gotten stellar reviews on our site, so if you haven't heard them yet, get to it. Based on this interview, it looks like the best (even better than before?) is still yet to come, as the full length is said to be the "definitive" portrait of the band's sound. We can't wait.

The friendly folks at Holiday Matinee were kind enough to offer to sponsor a contest on our site. We told them, "For sure, but we only want to give away the good stuff." They responded by giving us three CDs from the best three artists they have ever worked with: Mark Kozelek's (of Red House Painters) Rock 'n' Roll Singer, The Letter E's (featuring Curtis Harvey and Sean Meadows) new full length No. 5ive Long Player, and Tristeza's (features members of The Album Leaf) Dream Signals in Full Circles. All you have to do is enter your name and email address, tell us the latest album that kicked your ass, and you could have a free CD in your mailbox.

Also new to our site is a tool for making reading fakejazz easier. At the top right of this page and at the bottom of every review there is a green button for the issue remote control. Using the remote control, you can skim through the pages of fakejazz like you would any paper magazine, clicking left and right on the remote to switch to the previous and next pages in the issue. This fully eliminates the need to scan and select items from a table of contents, as you would in every other web magazine. Only the current issue's pages are accessed through the remote, so if you are reading most of our pages anyway, it should make things a bit easier.

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Look for our next issue on October 28th. Thanks for stopping by.