Attached to the front cover of every copy: The Wire Tapper CD, the latest in our ongoing series of exclusive new music compilations. On the cover: DJ/Rupture (Peter Shapiro meets prolific producer Jace Clayton to hear about post-colonial Bass music, The Shining remade in Dubai and Sufi Plug-Ins). Features: Cross Platform: David Lynch (It's Crazy Clown Time, the legendary director-turned-songwriter tells Clive Bell, and you're all invited); Helm (Alter label boss Luke Younger decodes his punk-primitive Noise strategies); Bent Sørensen (Julian Cowley gets snowed under by the Danish composer's multimedia blizzard of sorrowful songs); Invisible Jukebox: Gang Gang Dance (The Brooklyn avant unit avoid eye contact with The Wire's mystery record selection); The SMiLe Sessions (Released in all its sprawling, unfinished glory, The Beach Boys' most ambitious song cycle plays like an unofficial American history); Christoph Heemann (The German electronic musician's immersive, cinematic soundworld provides an aural counterpart to the fiction of WG Sebald); Radu Malfatti (From free jazz to Reductionist Improv and near-silent minimalism, it's been a long strange journey for the Viennese trombonist/composer); Queer Sound (There's got to be more to queer sound and music than Lil' Louis. In fact, maybe all the noise in the world is queer, contends Matmos's Drew Daniel); Global Ear: Barranquilla.