The 2009 BLVR Music issue comes with a CD, compiled by Daniel Handler, full of new recordings from fourteen beloved songwriters — including Dave Wakeling (of the English Beat), Stuart Moxham (Young Marble Giants), Robert Scott (the Bats, the Clean), Mike Scott (the Waterboys), Lloyd Cole (Lloyd Cole), and many others (Wreckless Eric?? Lisa Germano!?). The CD is glued to an excellent magazine, featuring stuff like Arthur Phillips's soon-to-be classic "Dancing about Architecture"; David Ulin's revisionist history of the Beatles; Michelle Tea at Paris Fashion Week with the Gossip; Jamaican Dancehall Feuds; Lawrence Welk; spurious advice from Michael Ian Black and Michael Showalter; Joe Hagan on the new Harry Nilsson (his name is Benji); Ben Greenman on Marvin Gaye's multiple duets; Hilton Als and Greil Marcus on P J Harvey; definitive profiles of DC Berman and Phil Elverum; Paul Collins on the music of sobbing children; slightly more!
