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Since its debut as a photocopied fanzine
handed out at a punk show in 1985, AP has been the publication where the honest word, the correct word, the authoritative word has been spoken on new music and youth culture.
Features, articles, and more from
this issue.
Features, articles, and more from this issue:
In REVIEWS:
This City’s nightlife is worth scoping out.
A truly magnificent sophomore effort? Guilty as charged.
Prog rock for the anarcho-punk in your life.
These things equal successes.
Rock this milquetoast deserves reprimand, not surrender.
Powerful shoegazing? Yeah, we’re shocked, too.
Maybe Kate should’ve sung.
No hipsters allowed.
Straight outta Gainesville.
Patron CD of discontent.
Reinventing Joe Strummer.
Cheap? Maybe. Mute? More likely.
’90s garage-punk spirit is alive and well.
Fat Wreck Chords must be on hold for now.
Cannibalism and other less comfortable topics.
Girl Talk protégé goes through familiar, if pleasurable, motions.
anticon. icon shows he’s older and (dub)wiser.
Ask yourself: Who’s the Mac?
Def Jux’s clown princes have a leg up on some serious fun.
Canada’s great white hip-hop hope fails to disappoint.
No war on Terror here.
Crush/destroy.
Inching toward originality.
Those diagnosed with ADD need not listen.
Shout at the devil.
The shape of hardcore to come.
Louisville bruisers annihilate everything in their wake.
This blood runs cold.
More like striking gold.
Not really a choir. Or gospel.
Sweet enough for a toothache.
All grown up.
Put on your dancing shoes.
Silkworm’s remaining members continue their tradition of greatness.
Pop music for robots and the people who love them.
World, meet the best folk singer of the 21st century.
Electronic wiz Scott Herren re-invents the wheels of steel.
Red-state rock for metalheads.
The song remains the same-for about an hour straight.
And succeeding at almost none of them.
Sophomore effort from third-wave flag-wavers is hardly sophomoric.
Solo doesn’t necessarily mean stripped down.
The catchiest record about crippling depression you’ll hear all year.
A surprisingly unified effort from an indie who’s who.
Math-metal’s kings prove their crown shines even brighter after battle.
In AP&R:
Which Way Is Home
Search/Rescue
Say It Twice
Lighten Up!
Fate Of Angels
Another Day Late
Amplexus
Actionier
In LOW PROFILES:
Drop Dead, Gorgeous
Crime In Stereo
Farewell
The Subtle Way
The Secret Handshake
John Ralson
Four Year Strong
In ASK THAT GUY:
The Vibrators
Ted Nugent
In FEATURES:
The Weakerthans: Poetic Justice
The Starting Line: Stay What You Are
The Rocket Summer: So This Is How It Feels
Dashboard Confessional: The Good Fight
The Black Dahlia Murder: Metal Is Not Pretty
Armor For Sleep: The Whole World's Insane
In SCREENING:
Also Starring: Flora Cross