It’s been so long since we last posted reviews it’s quite honestly an embarrassment. I can apologize until I’m blue in the face, but it won’t make me feel any better about it or make up for the delays experienced by the staff and all those bands and labels kind enough to send in materials. I’m sure you’re all as sick of hearing this as I am humbled to keep having to say it. All I can do is soldier on to the best of my capabilities and available spare time. So, here are the first batch of reviews from the mythical Issue 25. Some of them are surprisingly timely, some inexcusably tardy. But here they are regardless. I still have another batch simmering, plus a new edition of Demo Zone//Tape Delay in the oven as well. Look for them shortly, if you don’t see your release in this portion, rest assured it will be in the next. We plan on having the reviews desk cleared soon and we’re just about there. Please feel free to hassle the editor via e-mail either way. Issue 25 does actually exist, hopefully the Table of Contents will finish construction any day now and we’ll fill in the blanks from there. Interviews with Lamps, Chinese Burns, Christmas Island, more columns and features, promises, promises…anyone wanting to contribute (and we welcome some new review staffers this time around as well) please contact the editor, we’re always hiring. Things are looking up for Termbo updates, for real. On a more somber note, Buffalo’s greatest record store (owned and operated by fellow Termbros) Spiral Scratch Records recently had a fire, and we’d like to ask anyone willing to send some help/support/kind words to watch this thread for news. Hopefully it will be back soon and even better than before. We’ll talk more soon…