Editors' Introduction

Do music genres and social/political borders have something in common? After talking with Miho Hatori, we’re persuaded to think so. more

No Borders: an Interview with Miho Hatori

“I think what we are doing is not a traditional style of Brazilian music. It's more like a dragon roll: it's not traditional sushi, but I like it because it's yummy. I love the casualness and creativity of it.” more

The W. Lee Wilder From Space - Allen Frost

Phantom From Space introduces itself as “the story of a handful of people who in the course of one desperate night held back a wave of panic and pandemonium.” Hardly. Most of the time it drifts like a slow pale kite. more

Notes from Bluegrass Mecca - Barry Brower

On stage, her communicative, expressive singing is done with such veracity that I am impelled to pose an unusual question to her: What if there had been but one change in her life; that she had been born in the North rather than the South, would she be the singer she currently is? Her simple response: “No.” more

Jason Webley: A Man with an Accordion - Paul Piper

“I was finishing reading Master and Margarita, so I was carrying a piece of Moscow away with me. I was alone all day. I remember sitting in a restaurant in a basement with dim light eating fried cheese, and suddenly having a sensation that the devil was sitting opposite me.” more