This late 2011 edition features a selection of the best of the best of the strangest. A sampler of new and old featuring recent releases by Mike Shiflet and Pete Swanson, as well as some amazing pieces by Zeena Parkins, Oval, and No-Neck Blues Band.

Musician, sound artist, curator, visual artist, and doom-metal guitar master Stephen O'Malley--from such groups as Sunn0))), KTL and Khanate--speaks via phone from his home in Paris to discuss life in Paris, touring, and future plans.

The guitar, the git-box, the Axe! Host Elliot Stapleton tips his hat to all the six-stringed samurais out there who continually reinvent this amazing instrument with tracks by Bill Orcutt, Derek Bailey, Loren Conners, David Grubbs, and more.

Kawabata Makoto, leader of Acid Mothers Temple from Japan, spoke with host Elliot Stapleton before his show at the Knitting Factory in Brooklyn, NY on April 12, 2011. Among the revelations: in his eyes he is simply playing "old school rock n' roll."

Clint Simonson's De Stijl records has been releasing some of the most strange and amazing records that you've never heard. The label is "Dedicated to Unearthing Primo Basement Arcana," releasing both new groups from around the globe and as well as re