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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:
- Not exactly the rise of the machines.
- Welcome back.
- Facing growing pains while searching for a new voice.
- Too hot to handle.
- The dude does not abide.
- More fun than a joyride though hell in a Shriner’s car.
- Back to the Source.
- Pop-punk trio bring a slice of London glamour across the pond.
- Think fast. Really.
- Dropping the Cartel and staying off the bandwagon.
- The vampire state building is still crumbling.
- Holy moly, I think I saw a Ghost.
- Foo Fighters sideman does what he does best.
- Lose the band, lose direction.
- Punknews.org is flipping out.
- One-man dance-punk that works better live.
- Mike Skinner steps back and looks at the big picture.
- The seventh solo offering from erstwhile Suicide man.
- Major breakthrough.
- Roots rises above U.K. grime with some killer Slime.
- Keeping it real, literally.
- This just in: Kool Keith hates the music industry.
- Still needs rap.
- Addition, subtraction: It’s all math.
- A much-needed improvement.
- Grind merchants’ horrific bonus disc finally gets its own package.
- The Lethal Weapon of hardcore.
- You can’t pray your way to originality.
- When words aren’t enough.
- Prog-metal masters continue to evoke an alternate-universe Pink Floyd.
- White-faced thrashers come up with the goods yet again.
- OK Go guitarist serves up tasty pop nuggets.
- Bringing sex back.
- Angelic vocals take this to the summit.
- French Canadians keep hitting pop’s bullseye.
- Stow the surreal and turn up the amp.
- A genre Rubik’s Cube.
- Like a shot across the bow.
- The Brit-pop band most likely to succeed...again?
- Bathe in this glow.
- The North will rise again, we hope.
- L.A. scallywags trade centrifugal force for forward motion-kind of.
- Aiden frontman steps out for a round of electronic death-pop anthems.
- Post-hardcore giants stage an East/West blast test.
- Lose the flames but not the intensity.
- Downright angelic.
- In-Store Session: British faves mix things up, remain cohesive.
In AP&R:
- Two Guns
- Transmit Now
- Smudge
- Same As Sunday
- Native
- The Casting Out
- A Loss For Words
- The Goodnight Anthem
In LOW PROFILES:
- The Summer Set
- The Riot Before
- Sebastien Grainger
- The Gay Blades
- Johnny Foreigner
- Bridge And Tunnel
- 3OH!3
In ASK THAT GUY:
In FEATURES:
- Fall Out Boy: Everything You Know Is Wrong
- Escape The Fate: Call For Escape Route
- Bring Me The Horizon: Sadness Might End
- All-American Rejects: The World Has Turned And Left Them Here
- From the Editor's Floor: Bring Me The Horizon
- From the Editor's Floor: The All-American Rejects
- From the Editor's Floor: Fall Out Boy