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6-7 ALEC EMPIRE
'ARE YOU DOWN WITH THE UNDERGROUND? Well, are you? ARE YOU?'
8-9 LAMBCHOP
'There's no doubt it's love that makes Lambchop divine'
51 GONZALES
'The man has wrists like tree-branches and fingers like tubes of toothpaste'
53 MAXIMILIAN HECKER
'When was the last time you met a German boy who wasn't carved in soap and wrapped in silk?'
FEATURES
10-15 THE DIRTBOMBS photo
'I want to fuck the world and give birth to nobility, a new strain of life'
16-17 AEREOGRAMME
'I only saw Aereogramme once: they were loud and had beards'
18-19 ONEIDA
'Do 80-year-olds masturbate? Does Sammy Davis Jr?'
20-23 YOKO ONO
'Listen. I'm not mellowing at all'
40-41 DISMEMBERMENT PLAN
'Young people don't know who the hell they are'
42-43 THE PATTERN
'My hair is a 100 cigarettes, my heart a whiskey on the rocks'
44-47 PRINCESS SUPERSTAR
'You're just corrupting all the rock stars'
48-50 MEANWHILE BACK IN COMMUNIST RUSSIA
'There's a lot of stuff about suicide, anorexia and bad sex'
70-73 LIFT TO EXPERIENCE photo
'This is genius. This is fire. This is art'
74-75 MARK LANEGAN
'The man sings, the bittersweet tang of lost friends affecting every cracked, broken word'
CARELESS WHISPERS
24 THE POWER OF THE WITCHES
'It's like looking at two people kissing for the first time. And you're not either of them'
25 HOLIDAY MUSIC AFTER THE HOLIDAY
'A holiday, like shit, happens'
26 THE VINES
'Do you see yourself as a journalist?'
28 WHY I HATE… NU METAL TEEN
'Boys, I love you. I love your peach-fuzz arses. I love your chubby cocks, and your manly hands'
30 YOUR HUMBLE COLUMNIST
'We are at last emerging from the long dark winter of the past four years, where slickness, professionalism and pretension were all'
31 CLEM SNIDE
'Hold yourself tight. It'll never be alright, but it'll be alright'
32 SLUMBER PARTY
'I coax the slimy little worms out of their holes with threats and promises'
33 ELENI MANDELL
'I was given a Spud Gun for Christmas'
34 DEMOS
'"Flu": not to be sneezed at'
35 GEOGRAPHIC LABEL
'Lean in, listen close and feel the love'
36-37 ET'S NEW YORK ADVENTURE
'Michael? I don't know any Michaels'
38-39 THE TRUE REPORT
'I'm more of a sweaty palms man, myself'
78 HAS RIOT GRRRL GONE MAINSTREAM?
'It's not about Thora Birch, or Geri toting a Hello Kitty suitcase'
78 CAPTURED! BY ROBOTS
'You call that a fucking note? You're hitting clams!'
54-67 ALBUMS
Bantam Rooster, The Come Ons, Cornelius, Silver Jews, And You Will Know Us By Our Trail Of Dead, The Langley Schools Music Project, The Microphones, Brian Wilson, Jad Fair, Racebannon, X… and tons more, in a handy A-Z format
79 MR SPEAKER
'As for the So Solid Crew, I myself do not know'