
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:
- Rebuilding the continents.
- The Lips set their sun for the heart of our controls.
- You can’t go home again--okay, sometimes you can.
- The birth of a great new strain of tribal goth rock.
- Bigmouth strikes again.
- Organ + drums + baby = maturity?
- Dear diary, my scene just went next-level.
- Their punk’s not dead-is yours?
- Treat your children well: Don’t force indie rock on ’em.
- Indie-pop duo defy time, trends, former bandmates.
- Two Rings, one Plan and a helluva second turn
- Austin death-pop crew make their debut, miserably.
- Cannibalizing the past? Cool with us.
- Twee meets Tree.
- Sad Sack Mountain.
- Cool concept; too bad you can’t hear it.
- Chicago art-jazz metalers slow down, get weirder.
- What happened to all the sweet riffs?
- J Mascis observes the Sabbath with a reverse Dave Grohl.
- East Coast doomsters get down ’n’ dirty.
- Max who?
- One tight spiral.
- This is not a sing-along.
- Three cheers for subtlety.
- Indie rock’s Neptunes give it more cowbell.
- Skilled noise, anchored by Yeah Yeah Yeahs’ drummer.
- Laugh and learn.
- Another green world (music).
- Meet your next guilty pleasure.
- Heart, meet sleeve.
- Bad scene, sure as hell not their fault
- American Nightmare.
- A punk/metal/rock epic that blows the curve on genre-crossing.
- Rock for connoisseurs; lyrics for intellectuals.
- Rock’s current queen of cool makes a memory of 2003.
- Wham, bam, thank you, glam.
- The girl-boys are back in town.
- The Get Up Kids broke up for this?
- The Strokes get their asses kicked by a bunch of girls.
- Jeff Tweedy lets Loose.
- Dance.Dance.
- A Scottish soundtrack masterpiece.
In AP&R:
In LOW PROFILES:
- I Love You But I've Chosen Darkness
- Far-Less
- Ever We Fall
- Bleeding Kansas
- MC Lars
- If Hope Dies
- Punchline






























