This week, vinyl geek Christopher Long scores a six-dollar bargain: a near-mint condition LP copy of Crystal Ball, the butane-burning 1976 classic from Styx. Dude, got any reefer?

How do you dethrone the “King of Pop”? Let the current king disappear to Bahrain and get sued for $7 million by an Arab sheik; take your kaleidoscopic and playful songs to California’s Westlake Studios where Michael Jackson recorded Thriller; or simply be a boy named Pop. Pop Levi goes 2 of 3 and emerges with Never Never Love, an album shot through with the ghosts of Prince, MJ, and R. Kelly. S D Green and the musical shape-shifter talk the process of Pop.

Thanks to a Dark Night of freelance unemployment that brought her Weezer, Gail Worley brings Ink 19 an interview with Pat Wilson , who totally rocks.

Martin Atkins leads the revolving mayhem of Pigface and Gail Worley finds out why the heaviest drummer in the land doesn’t play drums much anymore.

Martin Atkins leads the revolving mayhem of Pigface and Gail Worley finds out why the heaviest drummer in the land doesn’t play drums much anymore.