While reading David Christensen's recent interview with Dianogah, I was surprised I had never seen anyone else ask those boys these things before. What better to ask a band with two bassists, a drummer, and no guitars than their opinions on several of the most prominent bassists in rock history? While only a couple of their rants and praises go in depth, it's still quite interesting to hear their opinions on these other bassists.

As we said in our last issue, the release of a new Shellac album is a special event for many of the writers at fakejazz.com. When we began this little internet venture, we were a little worried that each issue, everyone would end up reviewing the same two records, and we'd end up with a lot of duplicate reviews. Well, it turns out the interests of our writers are a little more divergent than we initially thought. Still, a Shellac record is something most of us are interested in writing about. As such, to add to Dick Baldwin's review of 1000 Hurts in the last issue, we have five new reviews of the album for this issue. Somewhat interestingly, while the base opinion, good or bad, of many of the reviews are the same, the reasoning behind each of those opinions is a bit different. See which you agree with, if any, and send the rest of the writers hate mail for being so stupid.

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Look for our next issue on September 16th. We've got some great interviews coming up so stay tuned. Thanks for reading.