| Monthly Rock Report for September 1998 | 
| # | Artist | Title | Label | 
|---|
 | 1 | Various | Banned in Boston | Fail Safe/Einstein | 
 | 2 | Prolapse | The Italian Flag | Jetset | 
 | 3 | Belle & Sebastian | The Boy With the Arab Strap | Matador | 
 | 4 | Beatnik Filmstars | Boss Disque | Merge | 
 | 5 | Hovercraft | Experiment Below | Mute | 
 | 6 | Blonde Redhead | In an Expression of the Inexpressible | Touch n Go | 
 | 7 | Hopewell | Contact | Burnt Hair | 
 | 8 | Jessamine | Don't Stay Too Long | Kranky | 
 | 9 | Asteroid #4 | Introducing Asteroid #4 | Lounge | 
 | 10 | Various | It's the Cheap Damaged Goods Sampler | Damaged Goods | 
 | 11 | Burger/Ink | [Las Vegas] | Matador | 
 | 12 | No Reason | I Thought This Was Our Time | Immigrant Sun | 
 | 13 | Bane | Holding This Moment | Equal Vision | 
 | 14 | "Gelb, Howe" | Hisser | V2 | 
 | 15 | Alison's Halo | Eyedazzler 92-96 | Burnt Hair | 
 | 16 | Murder City Devils | Empty Bottles Broken Hearts | Sub Pop | 
 | 17 | Dead Boys | All This and More | Bomp | 
 | 18 | Legendary Pink Dots | Nemesis Online | Soleil Moon | 
 | 19 | Various | Twisted Rico: Class of 1998 | Twisted Rico | 
 | 20 | Out of Order | Survival of the Fittest | Victory | 
 | 21 | South | South | JagJagUwar | 
 | 22 | Sianspheric | Sianspheric | Sonic Unyon | 
 | 23 | Stereo Total | Stereo Total | Bobsled | 
 | 24 | Jejune | This Afternoon's Malady | Big Wheel Rec | 
 | 25 | Stitch | Model Citizen | Paddywack | 
 | 26 | Six Finger Satellite | Law of Ruins | Sub Pop | 
 | 27 | Minders | Hooray for Tuesday | Spinart | 
 | 28 | Litter | $100 Fine | K-Tel | 
 | 29 | Silver Apples | The Garden | Whirlybird | 
 | 30 | Jon Cougar Concentration Camp | Melon | BYO | 
 | 31 | Cave In | Until Your Heart Stops | Hydrahead | 
 | 32 | Betwixt | Moustache | Archenemy | 
 | 33 | 88 Fingers Louie | Back on the Street | Hopeless | 
 | 34 | Notwist | Shrink | Zero Hour | 
 | 35 | Social Scare | Sound Formula | Radical | 
 | 36 | Another Victim | Apocalypse Now | Equal Vision | 
 | 37 | Jack Drag | Dope Box | A&M | 
 | 38 | Waddie's Fate | Life Under Glass | Hope & Anchor | 
 | 39 | Die My Will | And Still We Destroy | Pin Drop | 
 | 40 | Various | I Stayed Up All Night Listening to Records | Anyway | 
 | 41 | Welt | Broke Down | Doctor Dream | 
 | 42 | Earth Crisis | Breed the Killers | Roadrunner | 
 | 43 | Stereophonic Space Sound | The Fluid Sandbox | Mai Tai | 
 | 44 | Stars of the Lid/John McCafferty | Per Aspera Ad Astra | Kranky | 
 | 45 | Straight Faced | Conditioned | Epitaph | 
 | 46 | Love Spirals Downwards | Flux | Projekt | 
 | 47 | Snowpony | The Slow-Motion World of Snowpony | Radioactive | 
 | 48 | Dread | The Dread | Dummy Up | 
 | 49 | Shellac | Terraform | Touch & Go | 
 | 50 | Various | What Were We Fighting For: Dead Kennedys Tribute | Know |