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Features, articles, and more from this issue:
In REVIEWS:
- Isis guitarist takes his second solo
- Comfort food for the hardcore lifer
- Party rock for the self-serious
- Home is where the heart is...
- But at least they're funny
- Like Tom Gabel with a synthesizer. Only not.
- Fixing what ain’t broke
- New Live Crew
- Cosmic disco as ultimate workout soundtrack? It’s Murphy’s Law
- Eclectic, eccentric and schizophrenic
- Italian prog-metalers get remixed beyond recognition
- Cum on and feel Boyz Noize’s unquiet electro-riot
- Still poised for a breakout
- Reformed jam band finally make good on their pop promise
- Musician grows up, gets better producer
- No one likes a voyeur
- I Wanna Take You To A Dance Party
- Catchy, hummable lessons for lovelorn losers
- Ska-core, the devil and more
- California’s finest drive like Jehu toward post-hardcore infamy
- It’s not for nothing they chose a Smiths song for a band name
- More pop-punk heartache from California.
- Coming soon to a basement show near you.
- If Abu Ghraib had a day spa airing Who’s The Boss reruns.
- Opeth’s first live album isn’t enough of a good thing.
- Cut the Lifeline
- Swedish hate machine.
- I’ll take “Things that rhyme with Taliban” for $400, Alex.
- Shredding can only take you so far.
- A new level of confidence and power.
- Chasny quietly burns down the house.
- Emo icons come out of retirement.
- But their record isn’t.
- Guitarless goths give you something to celebrate.
- Zach Condon brings his Gypsy music to Paris, with mixed results.
In AP&R:
- Sounds Under Radio
- Raining & OK
- Parade The Day
- Middle Class Rut
- Jamestown Story
- The International Drive
- The Gay Blades
- Amrita
































