Editorials: Rabid: “35 Years of Gratitude: We Love You,” Sommer: “The Dawn of Hardcore Punk In New York City, and my Part in Its Downfall,” Kelson: “Audio: Club Sound Improves While Home Listening Worsens, and What You Can Do About It.”

 Live Reviews: Allah-las, Allo Darlin,’ Alvvays, The Dickies, The Dictators, Jet Black, The Muffs, The New Lines, Pale Lights, Sloan, Slowdive, Soft Science, Swervedriver, T.S.O.L, The Twerps, Ultimate Painting, The Waldos

 CD Reviews: Adolescents, American Darlings, Art Bergmann, Best Coast, Blur, Built to Spill, Chatham Rise and thelightshines, Cheatahs, Chrome, Leonard Cohen, Death Cab for Cutie, The Decemberists, D.O.A., Dot Dash, Faust, The Flaming Lips, The Furious Seasons, Girlschool, The Granite Shore, The Go-Betweens, Screaming Jay Hawkins and the Fuzztones, Idlewild, Iron and Wine, The Kinks, Lead Belly, Leatherface, Tim Lee 3, Man Sized Action, The MC5, Don McGlashan, Modernettes, Modest Mouse, The Monochrome Set, Willie Nelson & Sister Debbie, The New Dylans, 93millionmilesfromthesun, No Joy, Novella, Panda Bear, The Paranoid Style, Robert Pollard, The Popguns, The Primitives, Really Red, Red Lorry Yellow Lorry, Todd Rundgren, Ty Segal, Ron Sexsmith, The Shadows of Knight, Sleater-Kinney, Soft Machine, The Sonics, The Standells, Christopher Paul Stelling, Sweet Madness, The Twerps, The Urinals, Sam Vicari, Wire, VA - millions like us; the story of the mod revival 1977-1989