Avant metal giants Khanate are on the cover – looking as dark as you might guess from their music – and the issue also has a look back at legendary Krautrock experimentalists Agitation Free, plus electroacoustic duo Beam Splitter, multi-instrumentalist Mpho Molikeng, Osaka group Violent Magic Orchestra, and the extreme metal festival in Berlin! As usual, there's a huge amount of reviews of avant and experimental releases in recent months – and singer Dali De Saint Paul tries out on the long-running Invisible Jukebox! Magazine

The great Joe Tex is celebrated with a career overview and an extremely extensive critical discography of his original LPs and reissues. The issue also features interviews with the Subsonics, the Registrators, and Alfonso Cafrey, the legendary Disco/Funk session bass player who was in the failed Village People-esque All Sports Band. Also featured: articles on Disco Demolition Day (an anti disco riot at a White Sox game), the Chipmunks, Simply Saucer, illustrated obituaries of Claude Trenier, Erik Braunn, Paul Burlison, Dewey Terry (Don & Dewey) and more. Plus over 20 pages of music comix by the best underground cartoonists in the world. Magazine