They made it to 500, the best music magazine I know! To celebrate it has a special commemorative silver gatefold cover made by Savage Pencil.

• Natural Information Society: Exploring the time-stretching possibilities of longform improvisation with Joshua Abrams and Lisa Alvarado’s group. By Emily Pothast
• OvO: The heavy theatrical performances of the Italian duo raise questions of mortality and identity. By Claire Biddles
• Weston Olencki: Grappling with trombones and banjos poses questions of place and colonialism for the South Carolina born musician. By Daryl Worthington
• Bitchin Bajas: Going with the flow is the MO for the shape-shifting Chicago trio. By Bill Meyer
• Fay Victor: Giving voice to the catalogue of Herbie Nichols is just the latest project for the free thinking vocalist. By Stewart Smith
• Signing and Interpretation: Three practitioners explain the unique art of performing and translating experimental music for Deaf audiences. By Jo Hutton
• Invisible Jukebox: Lea Bertucci: Will the saxophonist and tape composer go loopy hearing The Wire’s mystery record selection? Tested by Clive Bell
• Cerys Hafana: Giving a voice to the Welsh triple harp. By Francis Gooding
• Cleaning Women: Laundry rack-mounted equipment. By Ilia Rogatchevski
• Unlimited Editions: The Collapsing Drums label tells the stories that matter in a post-pandemic world. By Spenser Tomson
• The Inner Sleeve: Lucrecia Dalt on Tindersticks’ Trouble Every Day (Original Soundtrack)
• Global Ear: Balkan beats rise out of Pula, Croatia’s industrial/punk past. By Robert Rigney
• Against The Grain: New ruptures in culture can be found within the wreckage of the present, argues Mattie Colquhoun
• Epiphanies: A recent London gig opens up questions about the racialised dynamics of performance for Theodora Laird aka feeo
• Soundcheck: Rafiq Bhatia; Sofie Birch & Antonina Nowacka; Sir Richard Bishop; Bitterviper; Black Sites; David Byrne; Cardiacs; Christina Carter; Chime Oblivion; Chuquimamani-Condori; Mike Cooper; Baxter Dury; Evening; Mark Fell; Mark Fell with Studio Dan; Michael Finnissy; Fuckwolf; Ellen Fullman & The Living Earth Show; Melvin Gibbs; David Grubbs; Hand To Earth; Kieran Hebden & William Tyler; Home Secretary; Kev Hopper; Ho99o9; Eiko Ishibashi & Jim O’Rourke; Jung An Tagen; Piotr Kurek; Lider Mit Palestine; Geoff Mann; Donny McCaslin; Sergio Merce; Mistake Band; Joe Morris; Joe Morris & Elliott Sharp; múm; Nad Spiro; The Necks; New Chance; Hatis Noit; Obscuress; Aki Onda; OSEES; Harry Partch/Partch Ensemble; Jonathan Richman; Ignaz Schick; Shapednoise; ShrapKnel; Squanderers; Sun City Girls; Henry Threadgill; ujif_notfound; Ziúr
• The Boomerang: Grateful Dead & John Oswald; Harry Pussy; Cindy Lee; Der Moderne Man; Reducer; SYPH; The Shadow Ring; Six Finger Satellite; Sly & The Family Stone; Wayne Smith; Susumu Yokota
• The Columns: Avant Rock by Tony Rettman; Dub & Reggae by Steve Barker; Electronics by Leah Kardos; Hiphop & R&B by Tim Fish; Jazz & Improv by Phil Freeman; Modern Composition by Julian Cowley; Noise, Industrial & Beyond by Raymond Cummings; Size Matters by Byron Coley
• Print Run: Everything We Do Is Music: How 20th Century Classical Music Shaped Pop by Elizabeth Alker; Boulez In Context edited by Edward Campbell; Blitz: The Club That Created The 80s by Robert Elms; Shouting Out Loud: Lives Of The Raincoats by Audrey Golden; Tough Breaks: The Story Of Baltimore Club Music by Al Shipley; Synths, Sax & Situationists: The French Musical Underground 1968–1978 by Ian Thompson; James Tenney: Writings And Interviews On Experimental Music edited by Robert Wannamaker, Lauren Pratt & Tashi Wada; Unearthing The Music: Footnotes To Sonic Resistance In Non-Democratic Europe (1950–2000) edited by Alexander Pehlemann, Rui Pedro Dâmaso & Lucia Udvardyova