New releases last eight weeks: All genres

Notes: Contents: Elliott Murphy, Bonnie Owens, Jimmie & Vella, Crack the Sky, cheap 70s glam albums, Rosie & the Originals, Bernie Torme, Claudine Longet, dinosaur rock bands go punk, wrestling and rock & roll, Jumpin' Beans & the Moustaches, Blowhole, Barbra Streisand goes experimental, Brubeck goes psych, Village People punk, Mezz Mezzrow, SST Records, and more. Issue No 2 is still available. Issue No 1 is not.

Notes: The Philly Issue commemorates some of the most influential and industrious musicians from the City of Brotherly Love. Issue 33 dives into Gamble and Huff, Teddy Pendergrass, and the Stylistics, among many others from the soul, jazz, and hip-hop communities that have long flourished in this cultural mecca.

You'll find rare insights from legends like Thom Bell, Bunny Sigler, and The Delfonics, plus behind-the-scenes stories from the studios where TSOP - The Sound of Philadelphia - was born. We connect the dots from doo-wop to disco, soul to hip-hopiuncovering how Philly carved out a sound both timeless and revolutionary.

Contents Include:

Gamble & Huff, Teddy Pendergrass, Questlove, The Stylistics, Odean Pope, Vince Montana, Howard Tate, First Choice, Sonny Hopson, Jneiro Jarel and more.

Notes: *2025 RE-PRINT - originally issued in 2009 ** No advertisements **

The landmark Jazz Issue features on the front the classic Blue Train photo of John Coltrane, uncropped, and on the back, trumpet star Freddie Hubbard from his CTI heyday. Behind both of these legends was jazz producer Creed Taylor, who left his mark on Impulse and Verve before starting his untouchable CTI Records. We feature a major oral history of Creed's career, as well as stories on Horace Tapscott, Richard Evans, Joel Dorn, and Melvin Sparks.

Notes: 48 page A5 zine

Printed on high quality PEFC certified recycled stock

Weird Walk present issue number eight of the irregular journal. With spring well and truly sprung, there is no better moment to be reminded of the creativity which continues to unfold in the landscape, whether through new folk forms, socially-engaged art or weird tales told on stage and screen.

With contributions from Maxine Peake, Rachel Adams, Lucy Wright, Isaura Barbe-Brown and Beccy Mccray.

Notes: Inside the brand new issue:

Haruomi Hosono: The exotica explorer and YMO founder has found his voice in a late career renaissance. By James Hadfield.

Plus: Japanese exotica: A user's guide by David Toop

Bromp Treb: Film maker and musician Neil 'Cloaca' Young has learned from the possibility of failure. By Matt Krefting

Christer Bothen: The Swedish multi-instrumentalist and onetime Don Cherry associate has continued along his own path. By Clive Bell

Crystabel Efemena Riley: The close listening of free improvisation offers vital moments of human connection for the London percussionist. By Abi Bliss

Blackhaine: Stockport's industrial hiphop head is making waves on the world stage with his choreography collaborations. By Hugh Morris

KASAI: Footwork folk. By Daryl Worthington

Use Knife: Rhythms of refuge. By Xenia Benivolski

Nina Garcia: Doppler-like effects. By Milos Hroch

Invisible Jukebox: DJ Scotch Egg: Will the bassist and breakcore pioneer crack The Wire's mystery record collection? Tested by Daniel Neofetou

Global Ear: Experimental music in the Bangladeshi capital thrives under the government's radar. By Simon Coates

Unlimited Editions: Dusty Ballz plugs the Chinese diaspora into the global avant garde. By Daryl Worthington

The Inner Sleeve: Djrum on Svarte Greiner's Knive

Against The Grain: Underground music must urgently defend its trans and queer communities, urges Rosie Esther Solomon

Epiphanies: Joy Guidry finds true freedom in the life lessons of Sun Ra

Soundcheck: Ellen Arkbro, Rashad Becker, Bios Contrast & Nilotpal Das, Elvin Brandhi, Anthony Braxton, Caspar Brotzmann Massaker, Raven Chacon, Chepang, Column258, Content Provider, Melaine Dalibert & David Sylvian, Kevin Drumm, Egg Girl Girl, Brian Eno & Beatie Wolfe, Mark Ernestus' Ndagga Rhythm Force, Escape-Ism, Everything Is Psychedelic, Ben LaMar Gay, Gnaw, Georg Graewe/Brad Jones/Hamid Drake, Georg Graewe & Sonic Fiction Orchestra, Joy Guidry, DJ Haram, Herbert & Momoko, Alan Jenkins, kodiki, Hampus Lindwall, Lippard Arkbro Lindwall, Maurice Louca, Matmos, Rainy Miller, Moin, Mourning [A] BLKstar, Nazar, Stephen O'Malley, Osmium, Daniel O'Sulllivan, paszka, Rufige Kru, Schmitz & Niebuhr, Sensor Ghost, Ursula Sereghy, Mark Stewart, ThisIsDA, MK Velsorf & Aase Nielsen, Zosha Warpeha & Mariel Teran, Larry Wish

The Columns: Avant Rock by Edwin Pouncey; Critical Beats by Misha Farrant; Dub & Reggae by Steve Barker; Electronics by Steph Kretowicz; Global by Francis Gooding; Jazz & Improv by Daniel Spicer; Noise, Industrial & Beyond by Louis Pattison; Size Matters by Byron Coley

The Boomerang: Freddie Hubbard; Iration Steppas; Bennie Maupin; Charles Mingus; Repetition Repetition; Gruff Rhys; Arthur Russell; Pete Shelley; David Van Tieghem; To Live And Shave In LA; Various: All The Young Droids: Junkshop Synth Pop 1978-1985; Various: Disk Musik: A DD Records Compilation

Print Run: TRIP MAGAZEEN: The Complete Collection 1992-1994 by DJ THREE, Grumptronix
& Peter Wohelski; The Uncanny Muse: Music, Art, And Machines From Automata To AI by David Hadju; Philosophy Of Jazz by Daniel Martin Feige (translated by Nathan Ross); Meredith Monk: Calling edited by Anna Schneider, Beatrix Ruf & Peter Sciscioli; Monk In Pieces directed by Billy Shebar & David C Roberts; Relational Improvisation: Music, Dance And Contemporary Art by Simon Rose; Songs In The Key Of MP3 by Liam Inscoe-Jones; Sex Is No Emergency: Adventures In A Post Punk Wonderland by Dorothy Max Prior; Alien Water: Six Decades Paddling In Unpopular Music by Ian A Anderson

On Screen: Isaac Gale & Ryan Olson Swamp Dogg Gets His Pool Painted; Alex Ross Perry Pavements

On Location: Mappa Live, London, UK; Sun Yizhou + Zhao Cong + Zhu Wenbo, London, UK; Mosquito Farm & Zhao Cong + Wenbo/Barker/Betteridge/Mai/Zhu/Shaoyang/Zhuo + Rory Salter & Sun Yizho, London, UK; IZ, Shenzhen, China; AD LIB > 66VOCALISTBODIES,NOT, London, UK; Container, London, UK; Reading Group Residency, London, UK; Apartment House, London, UK; Thawed Out, Chicago, US; Kumio Kurachi, London, UK; Long Play Festival, New York, US; Wolf Eyes + Sly & The Family Drone + Soborgnost, London, UK; Vanessa Rossetto + Matthew Revert + Tom Betteridge, London, UK

On Site: Sound And Silence: An Exhibition Of Contemporary Bells, Bovey Tracey, UK