What's missing? The state of pop -- The Redskins, live -- Zapp, live -- Younger than yesterday: Indie-pop's cult of innocence -- Nasty Boys: rap -- Beat happening: "Beat happening" -- Backs to the future: The folk and country resurgence in alternative rock -- Hip hop and house singles reviews -- Husker Du: "Warehouse: songs and stories" -- Mantronix, interview -- The Smiths: A eulogy -- Public Enemy, interview -- LL Cool J, interview -- Dinosaur Jr, interview -- The Red Hot Chili Peppers, live -- Morrissey, interview -- The Pixies, interview -- Living Colour, interview -- Various artists: Sub Pop 200 -- The Stone Roses, interview -- The Caring Colonialists: A critique of 'World Music' -- Positivity: De La Soul, Soul II Soul, Deee-lite and New Age House -- Rap's reformation: Gansta Rap versus Conscious Rap -- Madchester versus Dreampop: Happy Mondays and Ride -- Manic Street Preachers, interview -- Pavement, live -- Nirvana, live -- N-Joi/K-Klass/Bassheads/M-People, live -- RRRRRRush!: Hardcore rave and London pirate radio -- Wasted Youth: grunge and the Return of 'Heavy' -- Welcome to the Jungle -- Let the Boys be Boys: Onyx interview/Gangsta rap is Oi! (1993) -- State of Interdependence: Britain, America, and the 'special relationship' in pop music -- MTV: The revolution will not be televised -- PJ Harvey, interview -- It's a Dogg's Life: Dr Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog -- Against the grain: Thinking about the voice in pop -- Pearl Jam vs Nirvana -- The Beastie Boys, interview -- Post-Rock -- Swingbeat and the new R & B -- Ragga -- The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion, live -- Blur versus Oasis -- Pulp: different class -- R & B: The sound of 1997 -- Roni Size/Reprazent: New forms -- Feminine pressure: 2-Step and UK Garage -- King and Queen of the Beats: Timbaland and Missy Elliott -- Hate me now: Puff Daddy and the player hater syndrome -- For the love of money: Lil Wayne, Cash Money and New Orleans rap -- Street rap -- We are family: The rise of the rap clan and the hip hop dynasty -- Roots 'n' Future: The disappearing voice of reggae -- Euro: Trance music and the people-pleasing power of 'Cheese' -- Miles Davis: Live-Evil/Black Beauty/In Concert/Dark Magus -- Pure fusion: Multiculture versus monoculture -- Radiohead versus Brit-rock/Thom Yorke, interview -- 2-Step and R & B critiqued -- Faves of 2000: Dancehall -- Historia electronica: The case for electronic dance music culture -- B-Boys on E: Hip hop discovers Ecstasy -- So Solid Crew: They don't know -- The Streets: Original Pirate material -- Who says the British can't rap? The UK's new wave of MCs confront American hip hop isolationism -- Rave-Punk: The genre soon-to-be-known-as grime emerges -- Rap videos and the 'One White Dude' -- Dizzee Rascal: Boy in Da Corner -- Kanye West -- Lil Jon & The Eastside Boyz: Crunk Juice -- Mother Nature's Sons: Animal Collective and Ariel Pink -- Against all odds: 2005, grime's make-or-break year -- 2005: The year black pop and white pop stopped talking -- Arctic Monkeys: Whatever people say I am, that's what I'm not -- Green-Eyed soul: Hot Chip and Scritti Politti.