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Features, articles, and more from this issue:
In REVIEWS:
- Strangeways, here we come again.
- With friends like Mike Patton’s, you’d be unstoppable, too.
- Want to kick the sophomore slump? Try tap shoes.
- Björk cohorts celebrate geniuses with, um, genius.
- One person’s doldrums are another’s Mt. Everest.
- Glassjaw frontman seeks Bait Shop headlining gig.
- It really is U2 for the 182 generation.
- Post-hardcore for Sunset Strip hair farmers.
- On this rock, you could build a church.
- Ex-Afghan Whig artfully eulogizes the Big Easy.
- A brighter shade of hipster rock.
- Face-Meets-Windshield Confessional.
- Young singer-songwriter cashes in his damaged goods.
- Crazy Horse crosses the Thames.
- Midwestern emo grows up, hopes someone notices.
- Genius siblings book playtime in the madhouse.
- Instrumental nerd-metal as narrative art form.
- Straight-edge revenge--but against what?
- Orthrelm guitarist goes solo and subtle.
- Hi! We’re The Melvins, and fuck you!
- Power trio crush all who enter their maze.
- High On Fire, short on riffs.
- Math-metal kings return, one classic lineup down.
- Hell’s preferred crooner fully tears the lid off.
- A DFA house party for a different breed of hipster.
- The real Hebrew Hammer.
- Philly folk weirdoes do it Hobbit-style.
- Next time, how about new ideas?
- Beans’ booty-shaking, boundary-busting Blue period.
- Bicoastal ambient indie hop.
- Rock-solid punk with a technical hardcore backbone.
- Playing by the loud fast rulebook.
- Canadian emo underdogs turn their genre on its ear.
- Punk rock as meat-and-potatoes analogy.
- Understatement as an art form.
- Light on substance, heavy on infectiousness.
- Nobody puts baby in the corner.
- Topical hardcore with atypical reference points.
- Rock you like a Category 5 hurricane.
- Kid Tested, O.C. Approved.
- Norway’s answer to My Bloody Valentine.
- With friends like DFA, who needs Enemies Like This?
- Supergroup, super album.
- American Gothic rock, complete with pitchfork.
- It sucks, growing up in public.
- Eighties power-pop with a shelf life outside the mall.


















