The 2007 Believer Music Issue CD: Tracks from Deerhunter, No Age, Oxford Collapse, Sufjan Stevens, I'm From Barcelona, Aesop Rock, Reykjavik!, YACHT, The Twilight Sad, Of Montreal, Page France, Clogs, The Blow, Bill Fox, Explosions In The Sky, Magik Markers, The Drones, Zach Condon, Lightning Bolt, and Grizzly Bear.
Gina Gionfriddo on Nine Inch Nails and 19th century British Romanticism
Paul Collins on the Birotron -- a homemade Mellotron that lost Rick Wakefield a lot of money
John Sellers on really annoying Bob Dylan fans
John McMillin on the old Stones v. Beatles debate through the lens of radical political history
Dave Tompkins on the history of the vocoder
Joe Hagan in search of the reclusive Cleveland power-pop genius Bill Fox
an excerpt from Dan Nelson's monolithic ALL KNOWN METAL BANDS
interviews with David Gates, The Blow (by Miranda July) Terence Trent D’Arby, and Kevin Barnes (of Of Montreal). And more, natch-