
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:
In REVIEWS:
- It's emo disco party time!
- Japanese jazz-pop outsiders turn shambolic amateurism into art.
- Completely unpredictable.
- Underground hip-hop producer takes some crazy left turns.
- File under White Stripes. Or not.
- Blur! The Clash! Danger Mouse! All that's missing is the promise.
- Wax On, turn off.
- Landing among the stars never sounded so good.
- Canada's Beatles age well, expand sonice waistline.
- On a wave of modulation.
- SoCal trio makes virginity sound sexy.
- The kind of folk that will eat everything in your fridge.
- ...And bright is the future that awaits them.
- High vocals, higher ceiling?
- Different visit, same Clinic.
- All Americana really needed was a trumpet solo.
- Piebald (try to) get serious.
- Just call 'em Flipper 'cause they're faster than lightning.
- Getting knocked on your ass never sounded this good.
- Beards, keyboards and why Johnny can't read!
- The found. The healthy. The heavy.
- The hammer has fallen.
- "Scream for me, Thessaloniki!"
- Metalcore by the book.
- Black metal is the color of scorched earth.
- Former members of Earth Crisis can't give up the ghost.
- Indie rock covers itself up.
- The kids break even.
- Let the Tristeza comparisons end here.
- Sad songs say so much.
- Someone had a breakup!
- Local post-punks make good; nationals run for cover.
- Ready your Pitchforks.
- A match made in indie-rock heaven.
- More like mash those palms say meh.
- Old hits, new twist.
- Catchier than a California wildfire.
- Canadians say, "Gabba Gabba Eh."
- Tapping the Rockies.
- Anti-Long Island upstarts rock the power-pop.
- Mental illness as art form.
- This punk-rock supergroup really do have a better half.
- Crossover punk is the new black.
- Screamo progenitors invent something new.
- Punk rock for grown-ups.
- Thrice frontman crafts his own identity crisis.
- The second coming of Moz.
In AP&R:
In LOW PROFILES:
- Echo Screen
- Damiera
- Boys Like Girls
- A Day To Remember
- Self Against City
- I Killed The Prom Queen
- Youth Group





























