
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:
- IN-STORE SESSION: Best Friends Forever make a solid pop record
- IN-STORE SESSION: Axes sharpened and ready for battle
- Rock, by rockers, for the rocking.
- Presenting: The artist as lolcat
- Sometimes a new direction is nothing more than a wrong turn.
- Hitting the math-punk bull’s-eye
- Canuck heads balance the beautiful with the bombastic
- Math rock. With benefits.
- Former British poonk unplugs and resonates
- Whip it good
- Puff, puff, give
- A fiery cauldron of controversy
- Singles going steady
- Second time’s a charm
- Japanese ghoul-rockers throw in the kitchen sink
- When they’re On, they’re On
- Trent and Saul get down in it
- Paint it black(er)
- If this isn’t a joke, we don’t get it
- Mac-powered, folky jazztronica for funkadelic beat junkies
- School’s in session
- Oh, metalcore, don’t ever change
- Too many things are too extreme
- Pelican + vocals + bonus prog = Tusk
- NYOi!
- Drone-rock from experts
- We don’t need no stinkin’ singer
- Explosions in the sky. Of your brain.
- Guilty pleasure, meet your match
- Austere, spooky soundscapes beneath a vast art-prog sky
- Folky abstract brothers
- Believe the hype
- Joe #2
- Extinguishing the (Holy) fire.
- What homemade should sound like.
- Say “aloha” to a whole new side of Polyvinyl’s finest.
- Where there’s Smoke, there’s fire.
- Hell awaits...
- Hipster rock, eclectica and bombast, oh, my!
- An at-peace Cat Power gets a little too content.
- Punk legends uncover new audio dynamite
In AP&R:
- Verbana Darvell
- Shipshape And Bristol Fashion
- Our Time Down Here
- Love In October
- Cheyenne
- Building The State
- Backseat Goodbye
- Anarbor































