LIVE
57 THE FLAMING LIPS
‘I feel like a bug-eyed Alice wandering around Wonderland’
58 CEX
‘He’s grabbed a scalpel and is scraping away your brain-fluids’
59 BRITISH SEA POWER
‘There I stood, quivering until all feline desires to quickstep the streets diminished’
61 OXBOW
‘I hear violence. I hear blood and scars that never heal’
62-63 FUTURE ROCK’N’ROLL
‘[Liars] singer Angus shakes his body around like a pepper-grinder with an allergic reaction to heat’

FEATURES
6-9 THE ICARUS LINE
‘I know I’m fucked, so fuck it, I might as well break everything’
10-13 MISS AMP meets GONAZALES
‘Did you ever someone with a third nipple? A third testicle is no different’
14-18 SONGS: OHIA
‘This is a late night confessional for you’
20-22 IAN MACKAYE
‘I’m not a futurist. I don’t think anybody has any fucking clue what’s going to happen in the future’
46-47 SILVER JEWS
‘I just remember the knife at my throat. I was like, “C’mon man, do it!”’
48-49 JAD FAIR and TEENAGE FANCLUB
‘It says Aerosmith, but it sounds Portuguese’
50-51 BILLY CHILDISH
‘Mudhoney are really nice chaps, Beck’s a friendly little fella’
52-53 TTC FEATURE
‘I hope people do try to work out what we’re saying’
54-56 THE VON BONDIES
‘Love will not break your heart… it’ll crush it’
64-66 SLEATER-KINNEY
‘Science was a really big part of my life’
68-71 PENTHOUSE
‘Violence is most dangerous when contained inside an intellect’

CARELESS WHISPERS
23 REFRESHING THE CONNECTION
‘Once I heard a band described as a gateway drug that would lead fans to better groups’
25 METAL: A COLUMN
‘It’s the music press’ duty to fuck with those fresh minds’
27 THE POWER OF WITCHES
‘French-kissin’ Polly Jean on all her hairy spots’
29 JOIE DEAD BLONDE GIRLFRIEND
‘It’s like we’re fucking each other up there’
30 MARY TIMONY
‘Can you see love through a telescope?’
31 EDAN
‘Sometimes they just want to hear somebody get down’
32 M WARD
‘Shit, I don’t know what I’m doing’
34-35 ONEIDA TOUR DIARY
‘That night I had the urge to get beaten up by whatever women were at the show’
77 MRS CAKEHEAD
‘When was the last time you listened to a record made by a 41-year-old man?’
78 MAHER SHALAL HASH BAZ
‘Arabic art never follows a strict pattern’

ALBUMS
36-45
The Pattern, Beat Happening, Sleater-Kinney, Bright Eyes, Queens Of The Stone Age, hip hop column, James Yorkston, The Legend!, Fonda 500, Kes OST… and loads more in a handy A-Z format
72-75
Seagull Screaming Kiss Her Kiss Her, Weird War, Danielson Famile, Lord High Fixers… and loads more, also in a handy A-Z format