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Features, articles, and more from this issue:
In REVIEWS:
- More Kweli-ty hip-hop from Talib.
- Apparently Growing Pains isn’t just a sitcom starring Kirk Cameron.
- We’re not in Kansas anymore.
- New, full-band sound anchored with singer/songwriter roots.
- Third time’s a charm, as DevilDriver deliver the album they had to make.
- Metalcore icons suffer from an identity crisis.
- Stoned roses.
- Alaskan power trio get the Led out.
- Party like it’s 1989.
- En EspaƱol, it’s called Planeta Del Hielo.
- Philly’s finest bounce back with the strongest release of their career.
- Pleased to meet you-again.
- The 19th vision.
- Reunited, and it feels so good.
- Montreal’s entry in the dance-punk Olympics.
- It’s decent? Strange Days, indeed.
- Chicago vets see their kingdom come.
- Louisville’s sluggers sharpen their fangs.
- Mall punk goes to the beach.
- Old school fury still sounds fresh.
- Tim Armstrong doesn’t have a thing on this Ontario Cartel.
- The party continues! But why?
- A man for all ages.
- Eastern Bloc punks successfully harness their onstage energy.
- Yorkshire youngbloods impress, shrug.
- Anti-Social? Dudes are the life of the party.
- Fuckin’ fuck yeah punk rock.
- Wunder-twins’ powers activate-form of... supagroup.
- More human than human.
- Taking Brit-hop’s latest wave from the Streets to the dancefloor.
- The title’s quite accurate, mate.
- Montreal/NYC duo are primed to cause panic at the disco.
- Patton & Co. bury their hearts at Wounded Knee.
- Don’t worry, it’s not poisonous.
- Veteran death dealers finally admit they have a boner for ancient Egypt.
- Tedious metalcore from once-promising Canadians.
- Murder by death by way of an NYC borough.
- A few more dreams of happy endings.
- The South rises again.
- Prog rock is supposed to be boring; nobody told them.
- Guilty as charged.
- Ramshackle quirk rock for the thinking stoner.
- Not merely cured: rejuvenated.
- Cartography as art-rock.
- Pop music in disguise.
- Swervedriver frontman says goodbye to Syd.
- U.K. post-punkers’ melodramatic tendencies could use some editing.
- Australasia knows how to party.
In AP&R:
In LOW PROFILES:
- Bomb The Music Industry!
- The Swellers
- Maserati
- Droid
- Achilles
- You Say Party! We Say Die!
- Envy On The Coast
In ASK THAT GUY:
- Young Marble Giants
- With a combined age of 317, RUSH have lasted longer than many people’s marriages and employment histories combined.
In FEATURES:
- Tegan And Sara: Know Your Role
- Job For A Cowboy: Quality Is Job One
- Cartel: Ready To Pop
- Against Me!: Turning Rebellion Into Money?
- From The Editor's Floor: Noise On The Side



















