''Comes with a Smile'' was a quarterly music-focused fanzine published in the

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between June 1997 and February 2006. The title originates from a lyric in Red House Painters' song "24". In 2001, ''Comes with a Smile'' released a now-out-of-print split 7-inch between the bands Arco and

Rivulets Rivulets is the stage name of minimalist singer-songwriter Nathan Amundson. Biography Rivulets was the first artist signed to Low's Chairkickers Union record label in 2001. He then released his first, self-titled album in 2002 and DEBRIDEMENT ...

. Catalog number (KWOZ01). From issue 5 onward, the magazine included a cover CD containing rare and often otherwise unavailable tracks by most of the artists interviewed within the magazine.

Personnel

* Matt Dornan - Editor * Paul Heartfield - Photography *

Clive Painter Clive Painter is an English musician, record producer and mastering engineer based in London. Since the mid-1990s, Painter has been known primarily as the producer and multi-instrumentalist in both Broken Dog and Tram, and he is currently act ...

- Mastering Engineer * Mark Venn - Publisher

Contributors

* Ian Fletcher *

LD Beghtol LD Beghtol (1964 – 2020), also known as "Uncle LD", was an American musician, art director and writer. He was best known for participating in The Magnetic Fields' ''69 Love Songs'' and writing the illustrated companion book '' 69 Love Songs, A ...

* Greg Weeks * Jamie Lynn * Martin Williams * Mariko Sakamoto * Jennifer Nine * Stav Sherez * Mike Agate * James Hindle * Wyndham Wallace * Adrian Pannett * Mike Diver * Jane Oriel * Allie Roxburgh * Simon Berkovitch * Laurence Arnold * Mark Walton * Tom Sheriff * Stephen Raywood * Matt Thorne * Sarah Corbett * Mary MacDowell * Stephen Ridley * Maike Zimmermann * many more

References

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