INTERVIEWS
Acid Mothers Temple, January 2002
And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead, March 2002
Avalanches, November 2001
Lou Barlow, March 2002
Beauty Pill, May 2001
Beta Band, August 2001
Boom Bip, June 2002
Burning Airlines, February 2001
David Byrne, August, 1997
Cat Power, January 2003
Cex, November 2001
Chunklet Magazine, March 2003
Circulatory System, November 2001
Clinic, September 2001
Crooked Fingers, April 2002
Death Cab for Cutie, March 2002
Destroyer, July 2001
Dismemberment Plan, May 1998
El-P, August 2002
Explosions in the Sky, November 2001
Fennesz, March 2002
Flying Saucer Attack, November 1997
Fog, April 2002
For Carnation, July 2000
Fugazi, January 2002
Girls Against Boys, September 1996
David Grubbs, September 2000
Interpol, September 2002
Iron & Wine, December 2002
Daniel Johnston, January 2002
Sam Jones, October 2002
Kid Koala, June 2000
Ted Leo, January 2003
Les Savy Fav, July 2000
Liars, October 2002
Stephen Malkmus, February 2003
Manual, October 2002
Matmos, May 2001
Microphones, October 2000
Mission of Burma, November 2001
Modest Mouse, August 1996
Mountain Goats, January 2001
Mouse on Mars, April 2001
Mr. Lif, February, 2003
My Morning Jacket, August 2002
Need New Body, April 2002
Neutral Milk Hotel, February 2002
New Pornographers, February 2001
Will Oldham, September 2001
Archer Prewitt, October 1999
Sea and Cake, January 2001
Silver Jews, January 2002
Mike Simonetti, June 2002
Slick Sixty, November 1999
Stereolab, May 1996
Summer Hymns, August 2000
Amon Tobin, December 2000
Tortoise, June 1998
Max Tundra, January 2002
Walt Mink, April 1996
Keith Fullerton Whitman, January 2003
Yo La Tengo, December 1996
FEATURES
Dismemberment Plan Tour Diary [Jan-02]
Found Sound: Fifty New Discoveries in 2001 [Jan-02]
Nihon No Hardcore: Psychedelic Sounds of Japan [Jan-02]
Nihon No Hardcore II: Japanese Underground Prog [Dec-01]
Top 50 Worst Guitar Solos of the Millennium [Jul-98]
Top 100 Albums of the 1980s [Nov-02]
Top 100 Albums of the 1990s [Sep-99]
Top 10 Best Records of 1999 [Dec-99]
Top 20 Best Records of 2000 [Dec-00]
Top 20 Best Records of 2001 [Dec-01]
Top 50 Best Records of 2002 [Dec-02]
COLUMNS
Ministry of Information
by Brent S. Sirota
Journey to the Center of Kid A [Oct-00]
No Jacket, No Future
by Brent DiCrescenzo
Canada's Top 25 Albums of All Time [May-00]
Resonant Frequency
by Mark Richard-San
Introduction [Jul-01]
Noise is for Loners [Jul-01]
Record Hunting in the Age of Information [Aug-01]
Wind of Change [Aug-01]
Fuck Words of Wisdom [Sep-01]
Got Live, Don't Want It [Oct-01]
Chilling with the Lady in the Radiator [Oct-01]
Divisadero Street Ascension [Nov-01]
We Are Dancing Mechanik [Jan-02]
All at Once Forever [Jan-02]
$1 [Mar-02]
Soothing Sounds for Hipsters [Apr-02]
Hypnotized by Strange Delight [Apr-02]
Auscultation of the Heart [May-02]
Come Let Me Take You on a Party Ride [Jul-02]
Eight Fragments for Barry Gibb [Aug-02]
As Ignorable As It Is Interesting [Oct-02]
Miracle from P.O. Box 85510 [Nov-02]
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10.0: Essential
9.5-9.9: Spectacular
9.0-9.4: Amazing
8.5-8.9: Exceptional; will likely rank among writer's top ten albums of the year
8.0-8.4: Very good
7.5-7.9: Above average; enjoyable
7.0-7.4: Not brilliant, but nice enough
6.0-6.9: Has its moments, but isn't strong
5.0-5.9: Mediocre; not good, but not awful
4.0-4.9: Just below average; bad outweighs good by just a little bit
3.0-3.9: Definitely below average, but a few redeeming qualities
2.0-2.9: Heard worse, but still pretty bad
1.0-1.9: Awful; not a single pleasant track
0.0-0.9: Breaks new ground for terrible
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