May 7 , 2003 (Vol. 37, Iss. 32)
noise.
Editors: Kimberly Chun & J.H. Tompkins
Art director: Lori Spears
Noise logo designer: J. Fish
Noise cover: Gregg Gordon for gigart.com
Music accounts executive: Chris Owen

1X1
John Shiurba stuck a fork in the strings of his first guitar and set off on a journey that's taken him from punk and Eskimo to Ebola Soup, Spezza Rotto, and his current obsession, 5X5.
By J.H. Tompkins

Listen up
The unique pleasures of the creative music scene demand to be heard.
By Derk Richardson

Zion I on the prize
The life and times of a Bay Area-via-Atlanta hip-hop duo.

By Vivian Host

Phantom menace
Berlin's DJ Kaos and partner CE:EL tap into the ghost in the machines
By Vivian Host

Stealing beauty
Words can't bring us down as Four Tet's Kieran Hebden goes another round, solo.
By Peter Nicholson

Napa is for lovers
A close shave with the nature boys of Burmese.
By Mike McGuirk

Punctum
Against the grain

By George Chen

Tip sheet
June shows to look out for.

By Kimberly Chun