Armed with a brilliant new album, Suicide Pact - You First,Therapy? are back on top of their game with the fuck-all attitude that made us fall in love with them in the first place. Earpollution Editor Craig Young catches up with the Satanic Teddybear himself, singer/guitarist Andy Cairns, to talk about playing naked, playing in the woods in the dark of night, playing in front of tens of thousands of people and...oh yeah...playing the music he loves.

Since 1997, Minneapolis' NorthSide Records has been bringing us a new wave of Nordic music rooted in traditional culture but infused with contemporary perspective. eP 's Paul Goracke takes a look at the label and its staff of "original Nordic groupies," and along the way discovers roots in Rykodisc and the first American compact discs and branches in prog, The Residents and "world music that rocks."