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	2005 CP Special CP205 60.00	CP Special 2005 contains the following: 23 issues of Copper Press (CP4 is still out of print) 1 CP button 1 CP sticker 1 CD by a real band CP postcards
	BUY Catalog # CP001 $5.00	Issue One- Our debut. Graceful, serene and plumbing the depths of artists like David Berman, Jason Molina, Sweep the Leg Johnny, Sunday Puncher, Climax Golden Twins, Arlie Carstens and Sterling Ruby, Issue One unfurled itself with confidence and a deference to things we hold dear. Also included are 94 reviews, captivating skate photography by Andy Mueller, an interview with the makers of the film, Dutch Harbor: Where the Sea Breaks Its Back, and a beautiful photo and word exhibition by Michael McLeod. At 64 pages, this is well worth the $5.00 asking price.
	BUY Catalog # CP002 $5.00 Catalog # CP002a $10.00	Issue Two- Punches a hole in the theory you can't judge a book, or in this case, a magazine, by its cover. Ours is a stunning rendering of the Jay Ryan classic, "Hockey playing bunnies involved in some sort of a skirmish," rendered by the Ryan himself. They retail for $5. Issue Two Special- A special limited run of 500 with covers hand silk-screened by Ryan at the Bird Machine, his studio of barefooted poster-making. (This edition also features a special back cover ad Jay drew and screened for Touch and Go.). They retail for $10.
	BUY Catalog # CP003 $5.00	Issue three. Not Quite Spring 2000. It took a little longer to complete than expected, but what can one say when the blast furnace turns out such quality? Here are the specs, all improvements upon issue two: 96 pages, 4-color cover, perfect bound, all sheet-fed printed on better quality paper for that crisp, clean look and feel. People still rave about the cover. In turn, we rave to them about the design skills of Brian and Craig at SevenLuckySeven Design, who guest-designed it. Inside, we have features on a slew of artists, musicians, riders, and photographers: Doug McCombs, Jesse Hotchkiss, Ganger, Bertrand Denzler, Gorge Trio, Michael Galinsky, Hero of A Hundred Fights, Pele, Rob Crow, Craig Abel-Champion, Tara Jane O'Neil, The Purkinje Shift, Arcwelder, Adam Voith, Mike Everson, Panoply Academy, and Shelby Cinca. Plus Soundscrapes and more Secret Knowledge of Backroads, too. If you need more convincing, oh jaded one, read this review in Splendidezine: http://www.splendidezine.com/departments/&/copper3.html $5 and it's yours.
	BUY Catalog # CP005 $5.00	Issue Five. This is Toboggan Country. Once again, 144 pages of words and images brimming with energy and wanting to captivate your mind and spark that ole' imagination of yours. Don't believe us? Just look at that cover! Among the features in issue five is an article/photo essay on Tom Wright. Tom was Pete Townshend's first friend at Ealing, an experimental art school in England. Tom traveled with The Who (and many other huge rock bands of that era) as a photographer, and eventually, The Who's road manager. A fraction of his voluminous work is represented in an unfortunately somewhat typo-laden (copy was switched accidentally to a previous draft) quasi-documentary that is largely in Tom's words. We rolled tape and he regaled us with an endless stream of entertaining stories. Of course, his photographs are amazing. Also featured are graphic designer/photographer Andy Mueller of Ohio Girl, multi-reedist Ken Vandermark, pro skater Brad Staba, Swiss drummer and composer Fritz Hauser, pro snowboarder Thayne Mahler, pro longboarder Jeff Budro, and the following bands/artists: Lungfish, HiM, Pedro the Lion, Paul Newman, The Mercury Program, ...And You Will Know Us By the Trail of Dead, Damien Jurado, Gold Sparkle Band, Jessica Bailiff, Mazarin, Durian, Jetenderpaul, and The Impossible Shapes. Plus, 60+ entries in Soundscrapes, and another installment of Michael McLeod's captivating Secret Knowledge of Backroads series. All for $5 US. Quantities are scarce, so order at once!
	BUY Catalog # CP006 $5.00	Issue six. The Summer of Rolling Brownouts. If one can take their eyes off the astonishing and thought-provoking cover, they will find a wealth of material inside this issue, not the least ofwhich is a lengthy interview and photo essay on the brilliant work of Christian Lichtenberg. But first, back to the cover. When Andrei Cabanban first showed us his cover design for this issue, we were floored. Well, at least our jaws were. The programs he used, courtesy of his dayjob, cost thousands and thousands of dollars, and it shows. But what's important is the beauty and sadness depicted in this strange figure and within its eyes and expression. In issue six, we profile pro snowboarder and former Burton rider Jason Brown's rise from the depths of personal and professional despair to the heights of launching a new snowboard company- CAPiTA- completely independently. The highs and lows of Juno are thoroughly documented in an inspired and inspiring article, replete with superb photography and Bruce Lenkei's artful design. Other features include Death Cab for Cutie, Analogue II, violinist Mat Maneri, pro snowboarder Line Oestvold, Swell, The For Carnation, Utah Carol, Godspeed You Black Emperor!, Cash Audio, The Dismemberment Plan, Kind of Like Spitting, Abilene, Hamid Drake and Michael Zerang, and Starflyer 59. Andy Mueller contributes another Through the Lens feature, and of course, there's Secret Knowledge of Backroads.
	BUY Catalog # CP007 $5.00	Issue Seven. His Name is Robert Paulson! 120 pages. Have you noticed? We're bimonthly now. We just didn't have enough on our plates as it was, so, beginning with issue six, we decided that rather than actually attain a timely quarterly publication schedule, we'd really apply the pressure to ourselves by publishing every other month. You know what? It worked. Anyway, onto the issue at hand, that being CP7. We gladly dropped a few extra hundred bucks into the cover to allow featured artist Lew Baldwin dabble with fluorescent and metallic inks. Thanks to Lew, and to Andy Mueller for interviewing him. Ed Templeton, he the pro skater, artist, photographer and owner of Toy Machine skateboard company, is pert-near ubiquitous these days, appearing in every skate magazine large or small. But that didn't deter us from profiling him, his art/photography, and a few of his philosophies on the skate industry, art, music, and life. Alan Jones, not content to rest on the laurels of his splendid article on Mat Maneri (issue six), contributed a great feature on pianist Marilyn Crispell. Chadwick Bidwell's feature on Mountain Goats is one of the oddest, funniest articles you'll read anywhere. Other features include a lengthy examination of the musical career of Haymarket Riot's Kevin J. Frank, plus articles on Pleasure Forever, Get Hustle, The New Year, Jeff McLeod, Bluetip, Canyon, Serotonin, and Ex Models. Our Secret Knowledge of Backroads continues, and there's also a unique photo essay contributed by Paul Schiek which we are proud to present. Onward ho!
	BUY Catalog # CP008 $8.00	Issue Eight. I Will Show You the Life of the Mind! 120-page issue that we somehow manage to squeeze inside of it eighteen features without collapsing anyone’s lungs. Among those features are articles on Hey Mercedes, Victory at Sea, Built to Spill, Jimmy Eat World, Shiner, The American Analog Set, Vaz, Mates of State, and Simon Joyner. …breath pause… More articles on The Jim Yoshi Pile-Up, Slowcoach, The Shins, The Prom and For Stars, plus a photo essay/interview with Amanda Marsalis, another Through the Lens by Andy Mueller, more Secret Knowledge of Backroads, and an interview with three Burton snowboarding pros. Oh yeah, and an interview and artist feature on Joshua Krause, who created the cover of CP8. It’s an odd one. Don’t ask us what it means. It’s art! $8.00
	BUY Catalog # CP009 $5.00	Issue Nine. Sister, When I've Raised Hell, You'll Know It. Happy New Year. Guess what? We’re still bimonthly. Hard for some to believe and understand, but then again, so are Economics and the continuing failure of the Detroit Lions. Anyway, here’s CP9 fresh off the boat but you can’t kick it. It’s too big for that now. And besides, it’s got its papers. 144 of them, plus some for the cover, to be exact. We tried to keep the magazine at a manageable 120, but we had just too damn much content, thanks to a slew of great contributions from writers, photographers, designers and such. Features on Fugazi, Hood, Shannon Wright, Spokane, pro skater Jerry Hsu, Sicbay, artist Nathan Menglef, The Fire Show, C, contrabassist Dominic Duval, instrument-maker Dr. Carleen Hutchins, Jenny Toomey, pro snowboarder TJ Schneider, Spoon, Dianogah, Joe Maneri, cLOUDDEAD, filmmaker/photographer Craig Champion, Stateless (collaboration between Early Day Miners, Unwed Sailor and filmmaker Chris Bennett), SLAP Skateboarding Magazine editor-in-chief Mark Whiteley, entrepreneur JC Brady, David S. Ware, Burning Airlines, History at Our Disposal, Windsor for the Derby, and The Circulatory System. Not bad for $5.
	BUY Catalog # CP010 $5.00	Issue Ten. So Many Social Engagements, So Little Time Out of the doldrums of one of the most uncooperative winters in recent memory comes the newest issue of Copper Press. There was nary a suitable moment to snowboard this season, due to bouts of delightfully inhospitable weather being ruined by days of sunshine that left us with either sheets of treacherous ice or puddles of slush. Either that or we were exceedingly busy producing this issue. Why? ‘Cause there was so damn much to do. To wit: Features on Dropsonic, Peter Parker, pianist Steven Lantner, The Trouble With Sweeney, The Weigh Down, The Microphones, Tarentel, artist Ryan Wallace (whose fascinating painting adorns CP10’s cover), Les Savy Fav, Michael Gira, The Court & Spark, photographer Kurt Schlosser, Ted Leo, Summer Hymns, Blood Brothers, Tracy + the Plastics, Christop Poppen, David Berman, Matthew Shipp, photographer Shem Roose, Kelly Hogan, Lefty’s Deceiver, and Her Flyaway Manner. That enough for ya? Well, it’ll have to suffice for the two months that will swiftly pass until the arrival of CP11. But fret not for the future, thine children, lest you get the gas pains somethin’ terrible. Enjoy the present. Enjoy the present that is presence of Copper Press. $5 US, as a sign of thanks.
	BUY Catalog # CP011 $5.00	Issue Eleven. Nobody Knows Anybody; Not That Well CP11 marks the introduction of the inclusion of a CD with every issue of Copper Press. The first CD will be a label sampler from 54º40’ or Fight!, a record label run by us, the guys who publish Copper Press. CP11 is 144 pages of images and words devised to captivate and stimulate the mind. So says Splendidezine.com: “We here at Splendid have been foaming at the mouth in praise of Copper Press for some time now…,” they wrote in a recent review. They added that CP is “one of the most consistently excellent zines dealing with independent music, pop culture, skateboarding, and whatever else they feel motivated to cover. As usual, this issue of Copper Press has articles that will be informative and enjoyable to practically any stripe of intelligent music fan out there…” This review was for CP9, but we’re confident our consistency has not eluded us with our newest issue, CP11, whose contents include Ink, Aesop Rock, Stereobate, Interpol, graphic designer and the man responsible for the cover Andrei Cabanban, Swearing at Motorists, Appleseed Cast, Young People, AM/FM, trumpeter Herb Robertson, artist and former member of The Need Rachel Carns, 90 Day Men, The Paper Chase, pro skater Cairo Foster, photographer Gabriella Marks, Satanstompingcaterpillars, Jackie-O Motherfucker, pianist/composer Steve Cohn, Califone, Hella and Rocky Votolato. And lest we forget, you get the free, fourteen-song CD! $5 will get you that and a cup of coffee, but we’re out of coffee so just send $5.
	BUY Catalog # CP012 $8.00	Issue Twelve. You Ain't No Kinda Man if You Ain't Got Land. What we’ve got here is a desire to communicate. Whether it be textually, photographically, artistically, or musically, we’n at Copper Press be obliged to do what we have to do, because we love it and we hope you derive some sense of satisfaction from it, too. About that, directly: CP12 sports the first CD in the Copper Press presents… compilation series, with tracks from Riddle of Steel, 31knots, Christiansen, Runner, The John Wilkes Kissing Booth, Anaset and many others. The cover of CP12 is a photograph of Sweep the Leg Johnny- our first since CP1 (which featured, in part, Sterling Ruby of the band Deerheart- even though he was interviewed for his art/sculpture, not his music at that time) that featured a band- and was published on our cover in honor of the band’s last Chicago show, if not ever, then for a long time. Hopefully, not too long. The first copies of CP12 were presented to Sweep at their July 19th performance at Fireside Bowl (which also, coincidentally, marked the last Chicago shows for Lustre King and Haymarket Riot- for the time being, anyway.). Long live Sweep! Content of CP12: Death of Aesop (thoughts on Congratulations on Your Decision to Become a Pilot), The Gloria Record, Guided by Voices, Songs:Ohia, The Real Diego, Pinebender, Lukas Huffman, John Wolf Brennan, Nina Nastasia, artist Chris Silva, Volta do Mar, Winter Blanket, The Roots of Orchis, Haymarket Riot photos, The Zephyrs, The Detachment Kit, Joe Morris, and San Agustin. (It should be noted that the typo in the Songs:Ohia byline is ours, not designer Aaron Draplin’s, and the Pinebender article was written by Joan Hiller, not Steve Brydges, as erroneously credited.). $5 is all we ask. Very limited number available.
	BUY Catalog # CP013 $5.00	Issue Thirteen. Now Get Lost. There's A War On. Graced by what might be our most beautiful cover yet, CP13 is ready for purchase. Rob Abeyta, Jr., the subject of a stunningly-designed interview in this issue, allowed us to use one of his paintings as the cover; Andy Mueller did the layout for the feature. Julianne Shepherd makes her presence felt even more than usual with seven - count 'em - articles in this issue. She eloquently pens her thoughts on Karate, DJ Spooky, Mary Timony, The Velvet Teen, Curtains, Xiu Xiu, and Howard Hello. Also featured: Silkworm, Matthew Goodheart, Tomasz Stanko, Miighty Flashlight, Planes Mistaken for Stars, Lozenge and Oxes. Plus, Royce turns in an interesting account of his trip home from Utah in the forebodingly entitled piece, "One Mormon's Illicit Adventure." The Copper Press presents... CD for CP13 has tracks from- take a deep, long breath, this is a long list- Eyes of Autumn, The Race, Riddle of Steel, The Ed Kemper Trio, The Feud, Everybody Uh Oh, Rockets Red Glare, The Rum Diary, Waxwing, The Maginot Line, Paper Moon, Lamplighter, Denison Mars, Tekulvi, Small Brown Bike, The Casket Lottery, Bottles & Skulls, and 32 Frames. $5, guv'na.
	BUY Catalog # CP014 $5.00	Issue Fourteen. I'm Just A Small-Timer Trying To Get By Like Everyone Else. " It is hand down my favorite music/culture magazine." - says Jamie Stewart of the most-excellent band, Xiu Xiu. Blue is the color of my true love's magazine. Our bluest issue yet. And as usual, we're swimming in features, captivating photography and unique artwork. Copper Press, in case this is your first encounter with it, is a 120 - 144 page, perfect bound, bimonthly print publication whose focus, while primarily lies in the realm of music, also encompasses its publishers other passions, among them snowboarding, art, photography, literature, skateboarding and film. "I've cut all ads other than you and our Magnet one." -anonymous label owner. Advertisers know the force of our impact, and place ads accordingly. For some, purchasing magazines is all about who's on the cover, or who is featured inside. We have never featured a band on the cover, opting instead for a more artistic, less-identity driven approach, thereby, ironically, devleoping for ourselves a unique cover identity. We feature bands, musicians, artists, photographers, writers and riders of every stripe, and as the feature listing to the left indicates, CP14 is no different. "Once again, new issue looks gorgeous, and with serious heft!" - Steven Joerg of AUM Fidelity.
	BUY Catalog # CP015 $5.00	Issue Fifteen. I Reckon I Can Still Trade Blows With Any Man InThis Town. And the hits just keep on comin'. Our regularity doesn't surprise us, but it does get us up early in the morning. Yes, it is advantageous to arise early when one is bimonthly. We applied the eluant to Frank Black, pianist Fred van Hove, artist Randy Gaetano, and snowboarding entrepreneur Blue Montgomery of CAPiTA to uncover some insight into their ways and means. A committee was then formed to gather testimony from Retisonic, Rizzudo, The Dropscience, Saeta, cellist Matt Turner, The Iditarod, Graig Markel, NoahJohn and Converge. The Building Press was probed thoroughly, artist/musician Tobin Sprout had to be tracked down at his gallery, and Ten Grand came back after being AWOL for several months. Verdict? Things is good. Things is real good. Get CP15 to read, see, and hear what we mean. Copper Press presents... CP15 CD has tracks from the following: Transformer Lootbag, [Step Softly, Ghost], Heros Severum, T*Shirt, Theselah, Mines, Judah Johnson, Saeta, The Helio Sequence, Tulipomania, Pete Krebs & The Gossamer Wings, Low Skies, Inventing Edward, Asia Minor, The Douglass Kings, The Forms, Kill Me Tomorrow, Putrescine, Chubby, and His & Her Vanities. We want our $5
	BUY Catalog # CP016HIS $5.00 Catalog # CP016HERS $5.00	Issue Sixteen. Or Maybe You Still Got Too Many Teeth. His & Her's covers! That's right! In a celebration of diversity, Copper Press will roll out with two distinct yet similar covers for issue sixteen. Matthew Hulme, the artist responsible for the creative genius adorning the cover of Ral Partha Vogelbacher's excellent new release on Megalon, brought forth this idea to the Copper Press hierarchy, who from behind their gilded boardroom table nodded solemnly in approval. Then they jumped to their feet, leapt in the air and clicked their heels in delight. Long an idea of Copper Press to wield multiple covers a la their periodical of inspiration, TV Guide, it is with CP16 that this idea comes to fruition. See more of Hulme's work inside, along with the amazing photography of Pat Graham, who has logged hours on the road with countless bands (Bikini Kill, Fugazi, etc.) and has a style that speaks of comfort, closeness to his subjects, and piercing eyes. Rock darlings Cave In are given the once-over in the article format, as are foreign loves of Copper Press, in Via Tania, Hitch, Stephan Micus, Robyn Hitchcock, Giddy Motors, and Notwist. We get to the creative crux behind the confounding brilliance of The Tall Ships, LN, and Sterling, and avant-guitarist and label owner Erik Hinds is given a thorough feature. All of this is tied together by Copper Press' disparate yet distinctive tastes and held snugly in the magazine's perfect-bound clutches. CP16 Copper Press presents... CD: Via Tania, The Life and Times, The Swords Project, The Red Channels, Riddle of Steel, Sicbay, Asia Minor, Viza Noir, [Ring, Cicada], Rizzudo, Dutch Flat, Sounds Like Braille, Erik Hinds, Nigel, Ilya, [Step Softly, Ghost], The Mighty Rime, Doris Henson, Tulipomania, Rocky Votolato, Jonathan Donaldson & the Color Forms, AM Vibe
	BUY Catalog # CP017 $5.00	Issue Seventeen. I Ain't Interested In Ancient History. Armed with snappy new threads and a backpack full of newly-sharpened pencils, bright shiny paper, a ruler, an apple for teacher, and a HULK Trapper Keeper, Copper Press issue seventeen is ready for back to school. Its Copper Press presents... CD promises yet more surprises sure to please the ear, and the magazine's contents will dazzle once more. CP17 features include Cursive, Oneida, Charles Atlas, The Forms, Low, Since By Man, Cul de Sac, Jett Brando, and Step Softly, Ghost - band among those making the most creative music around, plus interviews with artist/musician (White Hassle, The Railroad Jerk) Marcellus Hall and pro skater/musician Ray Barbee, as well as a photo/journal essay from Michael McLeod. CP17 Copper Press presents... CD: The St. James Stars, Lamb, Nad Navillus, 31knots, Riddle of Steel, Houston, Step Softly, Ghost, Since By Man, The Yellow Press, In Media Res, The Hurricane Lamps, Tiny Hairs, Rocky Votolato, Pseudosix, The Planet The, Parts & Labor, Gravity Propulsion System, The Drayton Sawyer Gang, Officer May, Respira, On the Might of Princes
	BUY Catalog # CP018 $5.00	Issue Eighteen. Now Take Your Flunky and Dangle. Winter is when Copper Press really gets happy. Air conditioning helps, but the heat of summer is the bane of its existence. Its publishers sweat and toil before the glare of their computer monitors, the radiating heat of the sun baking their hunched backs like a meatloaf in their oven-like studio offices. So, with the onset of lots of blizzards and their beloved, below-freezing temperatures, Copper Press continues its publishing par excellence, but with renewed vigor. And CP18 is a vigorous renewal of its strengths, showcased in features on and interviews with those amongst the most creative in the world of arts and music. Featured in CP18: Scout Niblett, TV on the Radio, Craig Taborn, Driver of the Year, artist Ben Horton, Arab Strap, Fin Fang Foom, The Swords Project, pianist Heimer Goebbels, Black Cross, and Kilowatt Hours. Our cover is from an original painting by Ben Horton. Copper Press presents... CP18 CD has the following artists: The Planet The, The Desert Fathers, The Kick Ass, 31knots, Fin Fang Foom, Bronwyn, Electric Turn to Me, Ibrahim, Balloons, Your Black Star, Low-Beam, The Rum Diary, Traindodge, Kilowatthours, Tulipomania, Feed, Gravity Propulsion System, Thee Speaking Canaries, Tender Buttons, Che Arthur, Goner, Living Science Foundation, Map, Walls became the world.
	BUY Catalog # CP019 Pots $5.00 Catalog # CP019 Pink $5.00	Issue Nineteen. A Little Less You Talk, A Little More You Think. Copper Press puts its stamp - two of 'em, in fact, as CP19 features two covers done by Ron Thompson - on 2004 with its first issue of the new year. Ever-sleek and stylishly designed, the pages of Copper Press will, with issue nineteen, again brim with articles and interviews with the most creative of musicians and artists. These include the photographer Andrew Paynter, venerated free-jazz pianist Borah Bergman, and venerable unsung heroes The Wrens, plus revealing looks at The Decemberists, upstarts Lucero, Pelican, Frog Eyes, and Brother JT, and the humble Utah band Gift Anon. Oh, and artist Steve Keene. The omnipresent Copper Press presents… CD compilation will make its presence felt over the course of its 40+ song, double-CD self. Yeah, it's $5, so hop to it.
	BUY Catalog # CP020 $5.00	Issue Twenty. Ever Notice How the Sappy Dialogue Dries Up Once a Guy Starts Soilin' His Union Suit? Our twentieth issue. Zinesters get all weepy and self-congratulatory over such milestones, but not the steely-eyed, cool-headed muzzle-loaded shotgun twirlers at Copper Press. No, we stay humble and are too busy putting axes to grindstones to bother with the confetti and the gratuitous slapping of the backs. Case in point: CP20 has features on – as is our usual – a wide variety of artists, be they musicians, photographers, painters, etc. Our cover was created by Eddie Martinez, whose work you’ll find featured in CP20. Also having his work featured is Mitch Cheney, whom many of you know from his days in Sweep the Leg Johnny and Rumah Sakit or from the fact his aging and apelike frame is a dead ringer for a shorter, balding Vince Vaughan. They’re both pretty funny guys, too. We get all singer-songwritery with our articles on Hudson Bell, Ben Davis, and Robert Deeble, and lay it on thick with some heavy acts like Isis and Playing Enemy. The stellar Old Time Relijun is featured, as are the fey lads of Pilot to Gunner. From the world of literature, author Matthew Derby, and from the world of classical and improvised music, Tiny Hairs and The Butchershop Quartet. Shall we go on? Yes? OK. How about features on Cracker, Jerk with a Bomb (we’d prefer they be called Jerk with a Bob, as in bob haircut, but it’s not our band), Overstep, and Sea Ray. As if that wasn’t enough – and it really is, you greedy, needy people – CP20 comes with a double-CD that includes 42 tracks, including songs from Les Savy Fav, Sloan, The Cardigans, Valina, Pilot to Gunner, The Race, Pseudosix, Make Believe, and others. $5.
	BUY Catalog # CP021 Yellow $5.00 Catalog # CP021 Face $5.00	Issue Twenty-One. Its Not Strictly Legal. Pseudosix, David Pajo, Fred Anderson, Sufjan Stevens, The Cardigans, Time in Malta, Lying in States, Giardini di Miro, Havergal, Jonathan Donaldson, Louis Sclavis, Of Montreal, and Choking Ahogo. Michael McLeod returns with a poignant photo essay entitled Strays. Plus, artist David Seiler delivers two covers - one, fleshy, pink, and strikingly intimate, and the other, fleshy, green, and bizarre. The content inside is the same, but who doesn't like collecting multiple covers? We do! And so should you. $5

	BUY Catalog # CP022 Blue $5.00 Catalog # CP022 Red $5.00	Issue Twenty-Two. I'm Goin' Crazy Down There at the Lake. We sweated out the wait for CP22 like it was a teenage pregnancy test. We, however, were happy with our positive result. CP22 is finally here! Um, pregnant with content at 120 pages, what was supposed to be our last bimonthly issue (for a while, anyway) became our fist quarterly one. Features on Saturday Looks Good to Me, Schooner, Oxford Collapse, BoySkout, Josh Hodges, Volante, Gram Rabbit, The Minus Times' author Hunter Kennedy, SeaMonsters, Mike Watt, The Oranges Band, Elevator Division, Joanna Newsom, The Method and Result, artist Williams Schaff, Trio Mediaeval, Jarboe, Shearwater, Traindodge, The Eternals, Mclusky, David Dondero, and Will Johnson. Graphic designer Guy Villa created two extraordinary covers from which to choose (unless you like the idea of twins, in which case, order both!), and, as usual, we have a CD full of free music. Still $5, you lucky, lucky souls.
	Catalog # CP023 $5.00	Issue Twenty-Three. Go Ahead and Run, Sweetie. I’ll Track Down All-a-you Whores. And so we did. And gave them all copies of Copper Press. And there was much rejoicing. (Yayyyy…). And why not, with a cover as intriguing as CP23’s. Artist Arrington de Dionyso, renown for his work in the band Old Time Relijun, here captivates with a work commissioned for Copper Press. Y’all be so jealous. But don’t hate us for being so connected. Comes with the territory, baby. Who else we know? Let’s see. Off the tops of our heads, CP23 has features with Amy Annelle, Dropsonic, Castanets, Brief Candles, Mandarin, Sleepytime Gorilla Museum, Hamid Drake – hold on, we’ll let you catch your breath. Where were we? Drake… ah yes, Swarm of the Lotus, Greg Dulli (ex-Afghan Whigs), Some by Sea, Petra Haden, Bob Kronbauer, Old Canes, Electro Group, Bart Davenport, The Intelligence (solo project from A-Frames dude), William Elliott Whitmore, Can, Doug Gillard (ex-Guided by Voices), Slingshot Dakota, and Spanish for 100. And, lest we forget, Mr. De Dionyso. As if that’s not enough, CP23 comes with a double-CD with songs from Ian Brown feat. Noel Gallagher, Tim Booth, Pseudosix, Morning Spy, Mia Doi Todd, Lewis & Clarke, Speedy Gonzales, Mass Shivers, Shame Club, Sicbay, Mermaid Purse, Bibowats, Thistle, Full White Drag, Traindodge, lowcloudcover, Mandarin, Crain, C, Decibully, Pretendo, The Double, Ticonderoga, Lacona, Parlour, Hammock, Humans Bow Down, Zzzz, Dropsonic, The One AM Radio, Animal Hospital, Audible, Caterpillar Tracks, White Circle Crime Club, Channing Cope, White Dynamite, Ian Cooke (w/Uphollow), Ampline, Dilute, Deverova Chyba, and 31knots. And yet we still have the gall to only charge you $5. Seriously, what is it about you that makes us do all of this for you, anyway?
	Catalog # CP024 $5.00	Issue Twenty-Four. A Large Man in Tights… Summer ain’t all that. You got your bugs – some keep to themselves but most are pretty nosy, your heat (nothing like sweating while seated at your computer – and it’s not even deadline!), your tourists (‘You don’t mind if I stare at the bay, do you - while I’m driving?), and most detestable of all, you got your pollens. Damn stuff is everywhere, too, like stink on a hippie. But it ain’t all bad. One can still lock themselves in an air-conditioned bubble and read a new issue of Copper Press. CP24 is the magazine of Ought Five. Here’s its list of contents: Features on Crystal Skulls, By the End of Tonight, lowcloudcover, Neurosis, Dallas Orbiter, Tarentel, Tim Burgess (Charlatans UK), Shrimp Boat, artist Travis Chatham, The Watchers, Bear Claw, Marlboro Chorus, Liz Durrett, Knife in the Water, Fog, Doris Henson, artist Marla Campbell, Mock Orange, Decibully, Akron/Family, Shipping News, Devin Davis, and Adrian Belew (King Crimson). Once again, we’ve outdone ourselves with the CD compilation. Yep, it’s another double-CD. What’s that? How can you thank us? Well, you could subscribe. Just a thought. Here is the list of bands on the Copper Press presents… CP24 double-CD: Ticonderoga, Devin Davis, Denison Witmer, Liz Durrett, Picastro, The Marlboro Chorus, Caterpillar Tracks, Made Out of Babies, Drowsy, Kash, American Heritage, By the End of Tonight, Mortimur, In Pieces, Con Amore, Two if by Sea, lowcloudcover, Mock Orange, Channing Cope, Bang! Bang!, Mandarin, Andi Camp, Of Montreal, Red Sparowes, Valina, Andrew Morgan, Anoushes Khalili, Collapsar, C, Bear Claw, Kimone, Sicbay, Deverova Chyba, Balloons, American Horsepower, Droposnic, Pseudosix, Andrew Bird, Shelby, The Cloud Room, Houston, and Waawe. Yep. Still $5.
	Catalog # CP025 $10.00	Issue Twenty-Five. We're in Sort of a Title Transition Phase... ONLY 15 REMAINING Long time in coming, but well worth the wait. The new year is off with lurch thanks to some fine articles on;Radar Brother, Pretendo, Spinto Band, Great Lake Swimmers, The Mass, The Red Thread, Klause Schulze, Cover artist John Soukup, The Life and Times, John Vanderslice, Howe Gelb, Sunn0))), Plush, Bob Mould, Channing Cope, New Black, Morning Spy, Jeff Kaiser, Atari Star, Old Man Gloom, and Triumph of Lethargy. And what would an issue of CP be without a free CD? This time around you will be treated to musical offerings by the likes of; John Vanderslice, Ticoneroga, David Schultz, Liz Janes & Create(!), Radio Jetstream, Nada Surf, The Lonelyhearts, Atari Star, Parker Street Cinema, The Autumn Project, Harvestman, After the Sirens, Milemarker, Terminus Victor, Hail Social, Lake Trout, Tribes of Neurot.
	Catalog # CP026 $5.00	Issue Twenty-Six. Darkness Warshed Over the Dude. Back so soon, you ask? Don't act like you didn't miss us, even if it was only six weeks instead of twelve between issues. We got a schedule to keep. We're sorry if it crimped CP25's plans, but that issue is all but sold out already, anyway. And besides, we got a schedule to keep. So here we are, brothers n' sisters, draped in black to mourn the death of procrastination. Yes, CP26's cover is all black. Heavy, man. As though there's something big pressin' down. Maybe a problem with the earth's gravitational pull. Or we couldn't get that exclusive Clap Your Sufjan Say Arcade Wolf cover shot done in time. Anyway, the cover's black and it was the plan and we stuck to it. Got a schedule to keep. The content for CP26 is as stacked and as diverse as usual: Dirty Three, Baptist Generals, Earth, Paula Frazer (aka Tarnation), Totimoshi, Heroine Sheiks, Askeleton, Gene Coleman, part one of a photo series on Cambodia by Michael McLeod, Pleasant, Cerberus Shoal, Chin Up Chin Up, artist Ric Stultz, artist Amy Kuttab, The Cops, Jumbo's Killcrane, Diesto, Tiara, Andi Camp, Page France, A Cricket in Times Square, and Ricky Fitts. And, of course, our CD compilation: Twenty song strong, including fresh tracks by Pleasant, Sicbay, Mount Moriah, Tone, Pinetop Seven, Rocky Votolato, and lots of other dandies. The choice: She's a clear'un. It's back to the paper mills, competitors! The publicists can take care'a themselves. That'll be $5.
	Catalog # CP027 $5.00	Issue Twenty-Seven. I'm the Damn Paterfamilias! Listen, folks. It's spring. Practically summer in certain parts southerly of here. Lord knows you're heading outside with practically no clothes on. Least you could do is cover up with a copy of Copper Press. Shield your eyes from the sun's rays. Place it over your face as you lay on your back to tan; your skin will thank you and think of how cool you'll look being seen with the latest edition of the coolest square publication goin' round? When it's time to flip over to roast your backside, you can read about The Can't See (ex-764-HERO), The Long Winters, Terminus Victor, Parts & Labor, Earthride, Voyager One, publisher and artist Amir H. Fallah, Cambodia photo essay pt. 2, Des Ark, The Moore Brothers, Pinetop Seven, Vashti Bunyan, artist Katy Horan, Devendra Banhart, Arab Strap, Collapsar, The Beatings, photographer Paul Schiek, Work Clothes, Thee More Shallows, Appleseed Cast, Eef Barzelay (of Clem Snide), Magneto, and Continental. All the while you can listen to songs from CP27's double-CD compilation. Cuts from Escapist, Sharks and Sailors, Ticonderoga, Maps and Atlases, Figurines, The North Atlantic, Shotgun Monday and more color these two CDs. As for us, we'll be safely out of the sun, working on CP28. But you knew we were winter cats anyway. CP27: 120 pages, $5.
	Catalog # CP028 $5.00	Issue Twenty-Eight. Sometimes It's a Hard World for Little Things. We at Copper Press also say "yes" to CP28's content: Built to Spill, Mudhoney, Band of Horses, Witch, Jay Ryan, Carla Bozulich, The Black Swans, Paper Airplanes, [the] caseworker, Dysrhythmia, Venice is Sinking, Beth Herzhaft, James Wolanin (our cover artist), Zu, The Gathering, Haram, Pomona, Apollo Up!, Michael McLeod, Abner Trio, and Hard Math creator Jason Sievers. Then there's the double-CD comp. You know you need to hear these bands, so let's open the purse (yeah, we know, it's not a purse, it's European) and fork over the $5 so we can ship you a copy while quantities last.