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O HAI COILHAUSERZ. Lots of lovely folks tuggin’ on the line this morning, wondering “WHUR IZZIT?”

Eeeeee! Almost ready. We’re still sussing out some last min. backline details, but Issue Six will be on sale IMMINENTLY. Check back in an hour or two. Sooooo close!

We are excited to announce that Coilhouse Issue 06 is dropping tomorrow.

Much like the recent Coilhouse ball in NYC, this issue is black, white and red all over. From Klaus Nomi to Rachel Brice to Blixa Bargeld, from Kathleen Hanna to Terry Gilliam to Paul Pope, Issue 06 is 113 pages of lovingly-produced articles, art, photography and design with a Constructivist/Expressionist/Futurist theme. We’ve worked long and hard on this issue, and we’re excited to announce that it will, at last, be going on sale tomorrow on this site. It’s also currently available in stores.

This image is a sneak peek of the cover, and we can’t wait to show you everything that’s inside. The cover features the lovely Amelia Arsenic, and was shot by Australian photographer Helen White.

All will be revealed tomorrow. For now, a sneak peek at the articles, and our main message about the release of this issue:

I must confess that, often, I associate Elton John with funny hats and glasses more than I do music and, as such, it’s good to watch clips like this one, if only to refresh my memory. Taken from 1997’s “An Audience With Elton John” (which was, apparently, a television special in which Elton John performed for an audience comprised of famous people) this particular segment features a challenge from actor Richard E. Grant who, having heard that John composes his music very quickly, asks if he could set the instructions for his conventional oven to music. The end result, while undeniably impressive, left me with a “chicken or the egg” question, namely: Can Elton John turn any group of words into a song or can any group of words be set to an Elton John song?