LIVE
06-07 BRIGHT EYES
What is Conor Oberst? Tortured artist? Method actor? Gaunt and tired and trapped and hoist by his own pantomime?
08-09 THE DANIELSON FAMILE
It's great to know that love can win the day
49 ELECTRELANE
There's nothing efficient about tonight's alphabet soup of a set
53 LADYTRON/GOLD CHAINS
The computer climaxes, the cocker spaniel explodes, and we are hype-hype-hype hyper
54 EL-P Tonight is a lesson in the moment firebrand rhetoric becomes self-congratulation

FEATURES
10-13 ERASE ERRATA
Let the mainstream fucking talk to themselves in their impotent, scared voices. We have our own Outsider Art
14-17 CAT POWER
'My boyfriend kinda likes my feet. Really likes my feet'
18-23 NICK CAVE
'I find it increasingly difficult to find anything authentic out there'
38-39 GRAHAM COXON
'Either those three are completely mad, or I'm completely mad, and I just
don't know who is mad'
40-41 KID 606
'Glitch as a creative, artistic thing died a long time ago'
42-43 THE BLOOD BROTHERS
'It's never been our intention to be a big band'
44-45 GODSPEED YOU! BLACK EMPEROR
'We've thrown up a couple of half-ass filters lately to keep the shit
stream a little less raging'
46-47 MANCHESTER PUNK
'There's definitely rivalry, but in a healthy way, tongue-in-cheek'
68-69 ELECTRIC SIX
'I just read hardcover books, drink wine and eat cheese'
70-71 NEW YORK REPORT
'Two British music journalists drunk in New York during the CMJ seminar? Who would have thought it?'

CARELESS WHISPERS
27 PLEASANT DREAMS
Something about the pure Laserium Floyd nature of the arrangements conked us both out at the 80th rising crescendo
28 PUNK: A COLUMN
Why the fuck should we care if major labels go bust and the cocaine orgy gets the plug pulled?
29 WHY I HATE. TOM JONES
People judge Jones to be sexy, in the same way curry pot noodles are spicy
32 METAL: A COLUMN
There's something different about America that will make you feel lonelier
than any other country on earth
34 BOREDOMS
Real magic works with the simplest of tools
36 MATTHEW HERBERT
'I realised all the things I hate in the world that bring destruction and
negativity make noise as well'
37 CHIKINKI
This is what life after the mushroom cloud should be like
75 WAVE THE WHITE FLAG
I've lost my nerve. Maybe I've lost my passion
76-77 NOTES TOWARDS. A DEFINITION OF INDIE
St Sebastian was another one, looped around a tree like Jarvis Cocker in rural mode
79 MOOZ
Mooz offer you a slice of uncertainty
81 ARI UP
'I always thought it was OK to shoplift from big stores, not from friends'

ALBUMS
55-67 Racebannon, Buck 65, Billy Childish, Camper Van Beethoven, Daniel Johnston, Ludus, Kawabata Makoto, Mercury Tilt Switch, Ninetynine, Pavement, Razorcuts, 'Teutonik Disaster', Venetian Snares. plus a bonus hip-hop column and loads more, all in a handy A-Z format