
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:
- Anything but ordinary.
- Say Aloha to this soothing solo album.
- The planet’s most unlikely live act returns.
- Bringing turntablism to a wider audience.
- Cities get a new musical ZIP code.
- You’d be pissed, too, if you were from Dayton.
- Whatever “Totimoshi” is supposed to translate as, what it really means is, “Godzilla’s balls.”
- SoCal metalcore vets serve up a crunch clinic.
- For once, an album title doesn’t lie.
- Thrash titans thresh purists’ expectations.
- Wreck everything and ruin your life.
- Here’s one: “Good.”
- Rising from the ashes-literally.
- Transcendental metal from beyond.
- Determined to scale new heights.
- Indie supergroup makes good.
- Smile, Victorian style.
- Grab a pair of headphones and come sail away.
- Irony rock.
- Originality is overrated.
- Avant alt-country.
- Drawing with stencils.
- Coheed’s frontman lobs another thematic curveball.
- Mike Kinsella grows into his masterpiece.
- Buffalo’s golden boys take another step up.
- Beck’s back to hip-hop on this disc of pure infotainment.
- Final mission.
- Is this Muzak?
- Former alt-pop guilty pleasures stumble down Thunder Road.
- Grunge-metal behemoths get back to Big Business.
- Covering covers generates originality.
- San Francisco punks return for another go ’round.
- Are they breathing, or just alive?
In AP&R:
In LOW PROFILES:
- the Strays
- Sirens Sister
- Quietdrive
- Heavy Heavy Low Low
- Thunderbirds Are Now!
- Shiny Toy Guns
- Kevin Devine
































