The sort of thing you'll turn to first: lies, gossip, tittle-tattle, rumours, humous...

Something in the Shubbery — a new Capo, perhaps?

Who is Uli Jon Roth? How can you learn to read bass music? What does Chas de Whalley look like?

Bob Clearmountain Sample CDs

On a clear day you can usually tell the difference between sampled and real drums. But if the quality of the samples is high enough, will there come a time when you can't tell which is which? David Mellor listens to two new sample cds.

Roadie

Mike Hrano looks at the ups and downs of humping

Interactive music workstation

The workstation bites the bullet and goes all the way, with sophisticated auto-accompaniment to add to the i3's already copious features based on the X3.

what exactly do promoters do, and are they worth the money?

As David Steel had his battlebus, as Boadicea had her chariot, as Rob had his 68 bus this morning, so Genesis have Edwin Shirley's trucks... and many others have followed suit. Antony Freeman finds out why.

Roland RSS System

Three-D sound placement from two speakers - that's the secret of Roland's revolutionary Sound Space system. Vic Lennard looks at the technology and the theory.

News from America compiled by Simon Braund

a life story

Texas Blues

Twelve-bars and whisky bars

Neil

neil's heaviest records, OK?

Having recently released his own independent LP, 'Oh Africa', we asked Sound On Sound reader Kofi Busia to write about his experiences. In this the third and final part of his story, he reveals his discoveries about the record industry and explains why he set up his own record label.

who does it where to whom and with what

Guest producer Muff Winwood holds what are sure to be controversial opinions on artistes' responsibilities and expectations.

Fred Dellar presents a potted history of the people who bring you the 'product' - the record companies.

Etcetera

a history of progressive rock - is there a new day dawning for the dinosaurs?

Eurythmics, Mike Batt