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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:
In REVIEWS:
- The great Northern hope.
- In an age before radio sucked...
- Not quite a hit; not quite a miss.
- A good follow-up that could have been great.
- Expanding pop smarts trump retro rehash.
- Too cool for school.
- But who’s counting?
- Tastes great, but less filling.
- Gloriously silly yet earnest debut.
- A scuffed and drunken bird song.
- Exile in blah-ville.
- Virginia’s finest whiskey-soaked punk rock.
- All roads lead to Gainesville.
- Some things are better left behind.
- Not just boys fun.
- Take a roll in the mud, Bahston-style.
- Now with 75 percent more posi-core!
- Westsiiide!
- Florida metal kiddos find focus; still searching for identity.
- Romantic Costello blues.
- What fun?
- To the top.
- No, seriously.
- Unfiltered.
- Attention deficit recorder.
- Turn up the party and bathe in electro-funk.
- The U.K.’s answer to Sage Francis.
- Unearthing Sweden, one riff at a time.
- Walk the talk.
- Hey punk, try some culture.
- Short songs by smirky dipshits.
- Swedish melodic thrashers retake their throne.
- Death becomes them.
- Smile, you son of a bitch.
- Aptly named Swedes push their songs to the breaking point.
- Change is way overrated.
- Salon soundtrack.
- A case study in Neko, Dusty and Jackie Blue.
- Sounds like the lake got polluted.
- More reflective, but just as endearing.
- New half-life for Death From Above 1979 drummer.
- No, not the one with Casey Crescenzo.
- Hot to trot.
- Simple-yet effective-heartfelt pop.
- Nothing’s fucked here, dude.
- The pun never stops.
- Between the roots and rock lay unpolished gems.
- Breakups and crackups
In AP&R:
- TV/TV
- Mt. St. Helens Vietnam Band
- Motionless In White
- Friends Back East
- Crosstown Rivalry
- Pete Bush And The Hoi Polloi
- A Verse Unsung
- Action Item
In LOW PROFILES:
In ASK THAT GUY:
In FEATURES:
- Anberlin: Turn Out Brighter
- Gaslight Anthem: Born To Keep Running
- Rise Against: Foreign Territory
- From the Editor's Floor: Forever The Sickest Kids
- From the Editor's Floor: Anberlin
- From the Editor's Floor: The Gaslight Anthem
- From the Editor's Floor: Rise Against






















