ISSUE 12 'Guilty feet ain't got no rhythm'

FRONT SECTION
4-5 SPIRITUALIZED live
'Of course, he reached his apogee of notoriety four years ago'
6-7 DANIEL JOHNSTON live
'He has 500 people here, all quiet and attentive'
8-9 IDLE THREATS (laugh, you c***s)
'I must regrettably abstain'

CARELESS WHISPERS
12 PUNK: A COLUMN
'Bored, I was watching "Pop Idol"…'
14 WHY I HATE… CORPORATE INDIE
'And I'm slavering with one thing only: pure, adulterated, fear'
16 THE NEW SLUTZ
'Crawls within your ear like a misplaced cumshot'
17 THE LOWDOWN
'There is underground hope in America'
19 JONATHAN RICHMAN
'I believe in life and I believe in hope'
20-21 STUART'S CORNER
Recently, Careless Talk made a trip to the Tate Modern to meet Stuart Murdoch from Belle & Sebastian
22 DEMOS
'I snatched the silver packet out of her hands'
25 ALMA COGAN
'My mother tried to set Alma up with Brian Epstein'
27 THE LEAF LABEL
'It's so beautiful, you can barely believe it's crafted by human hands'
28-29 THE TRUE REPORT
'Friends warn me against hygienic clothing and Chameleons guitars. Fair point'

FEATURES
30-37 MOGWAI photo
'Go and work in MacDonalds and then start complaining pal. Being in a band is fucking brilliant'
38-40 BANNED RECORDS
You dropped a (jingo) bomb on me
41-43 ELECTRELANE
'The music I prefer discomfits and reassures simultaneously'
44-47 THE DIRTBOMBS
'The perfect synthesis of Motown and The Stooges'
48-52 BEAT HAPPENING
'The quintessence of heartfelt pop, youth rebellion and full-on independence'
52-53 ELBOW
'Lonely bloke standing at the back with your Tesco's bag; Elbow are for you'
54-55 THE STATE OF HIP-HOP
'We're just gonna be us, you know'
56-57 LE TIGRE
'I want to skip and wave when I hear guitars played like they are supposed to be: with passion'

60-73 ALBUMS
Aphex Twin, Black Neilson, Fugazi, Guided By Voices, Love As Laughter, Eleni Mandell, Yoko Ono, The Membranes, Radio Birdman, Oneida, Spiritualized, Slumber Party, Techno Animal, White Stripes… and loads more, in a handy A-Z format

78-82 LIVE
76-77 MERCURY REV live
'I write: This is Mercury Rev: NICE. Like, way to write notes, woman!'
78 THE PATTERN + CINERAMA live
'The music bores me. I've seen and heard it before - you droids'
79 ACID MOTHERS TEMPLE + MEANWHILE BACK IN COMMUNIST RUSSIA live
'The threadbare pluck of the strings casually weaves between the soft thud, thud, thud of the bass'
80-81 SPARKLEHORSE + FRENCH KICKS live
'Like a transistor radio smuggled under the sheets at bedtime'
82 LAS VEGAS SHAKEDOWN + FUCKING CHAMPS live
'Smart pretending to be dumb isn't as fulfilling as dumb being dumb'

83 HOW TO WRITE A BOOK ABOUT NIRVANA