Sonic Viewfinder is back, with Mike Faloon's joy for music and life emanating from every page. These are music essays braided with the personal and the far-flung, at once deep and casual, welcoming. (You don't need to the music to have a good time.)

This issue's three essays each have a different artist at their center: hip-hop fusion group Wrens, Elephant Six Collective indie rockers Great Lake, and adventurous jazz cellist Tomeka Reid.

32 pages, half-letter size.