"Have you noticed? We're bimonthly now. We just didn't have enough on our plates as it was, so, beginning with issue six, we decided that rather than actually attain a timely quarterly publication schedule, we'd really apply the pressure to ourselves by publishing every other month. You know what? It worked. Anyway, onto the issue at hand, that being CP7. We gladly dropped a few extra hundred bucks into the cover to allow featured artist Lew Baldwin dabble with fluorescent and metallic inks. Thanks to Lew, and to Andy Mueller for interviewing him. Ed Templeton, he the pro skater, artist, photographer and owner of Toy Machine skateboard company, is pert-near ubiquitous these days, appearing in every skate magazine large or small. But that didn't deter us from profiling him, his art/photography, and a few of his philosophies on the skate industry, art, music, and life. Alan Jones, not content to rest on the laurels of his splendid article on Mat Maneri (issue six), contributed a great feature on pianist Marilyn Crispell. Chadwick Bidwell's feature on Mountain Goats is one of the oddest, funniest articles you'll read anywhere. Other features include a lengthy examination of the musical career of Haymarket Riot's Kevin J. Frank, plus articles on Pleasure Forever, Get Hustle, The New Year, Jeff McLeod, Bluetip, Canyon, Serotonin, and Ex Models. Our Secret Knowledge of Backroads continues, and there's also a unique photo essay contributed by Paul Schiek which we are proud to present. Onward ho!"