
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:
- Solo debut from a real hardcore troubadour.
- Destiny’s children find their wings. Of destiny.
- Serving up one sonic experience after another.
- Welcome to the bungle.
- The space between.
- Dirty Pretty (Midwestern?) Things.
- A blue-collar rock torch is passed.
- Dance, dance.
- Alt-rock icons go unplugged-but not quietly.
- Almost like nothing you’ve ever heard before.
- He wants the world to know he’s sad. Next.
- Taste the rainbow.
- There’s no emo swoops here.
- Punk thugs-n-harmony.
- Required listening material for the Class of ’07.
- Just because it’s the off-season doesn’t mean we can’t use baseball metaphors.
- Not just a swan song; more like a legacy.
- If Shellac ever decide to franchise, the English affiliate is right here.
- It’s not all brand new, but we’ve no complaints.
- Scattered, smothered and covered.
- Nah, this progression’s pretty positive.
- Rage against the brass section.
- Noise annoys, but it mostly’s.
- A bland dose of art-rap.
- Hip-hop embraces a digital diet.
- More no-wave seizures for coffee achievers.
- Their impact might actually be felt.
- Drone on.
- Ready... Aim... Disembowel!
- Alliterations are the new pile-on.
- Tastes great, less filling.
- For fans of...
- Unironic power metal = pure awesomeness.
- Viking metal fans, behold Valhalla!
- America finally gets their own Radiohead.
- White is definitely not the new black.
- Desolate rock.
- Frenchies get their groove on.
- We want some of what he’s on.
- Ex-member of Burning Airlines goes down in flames.
- A lazy, occasionally lovely psych-out.
- The best post-hardcore album of 1998?
- Warm sounds, cold place.
- Belle And Sebastian alumnus flies her folk flag.
- Listen, if you can.
- Austin troublemakers continue to make a new life for themselves.
- Crust in the machine.
- Ladies night at Dischord: Women sing free!
- Breaking up is hard to do.
In AP&R:
In LOW PROFILES:
In ASK THAT GUY:
- Considering they had no roots in punk rock, CAPTAIN BEEFHEART & THE MAGIC BAND sure rewrote the genre.
- Meat Loaf

































