Can music change the world? Or is it just the soundtrack to passivity and consumer malaise? From the guitar on the street and speakers in the store, to the radio, boom box, ipod and supersonic headphones, what do we do with all the noise?

• Make some noise
  Bucky Driedger and Aaron Epp, Guest editors 8
• The tune within
  Nicholas Klassen 9
• Sentimental idolotry (excerpts)
  Kurt Armstrong 32
• Too cool: The harder you try to look different ... 43
• Four months in Nashville
  Angela Wallace 38
• Flower power
• Punk rock pathetic
  Emily Thomas 48
• Musical do-gooders
  Aaron Epp, with files from Jenni Berkel and Bucky Driedger 56
• Low brow tanked up marching band
  Seth Woodyard 71
• Covert Christian cool
  Carrie S. Martin 39
• Why the world loves Celine Dion
  Carl Wilson 44
• Undeniably essential albums
  Chuck Klosterman 16
• A dedication to shouting
  Reverend Billy 46
• Ass-shaking great awakening
  Joel Hartse 58
• Let those who have earbuds...
  Will Braun 66
• No particular glamour
  Sue Sorensen 82
• White noise
  Aaron Epp 22
• 100 years of protest music
  Bucky Driedger 50
• Give peace another chance
  J.D. Buhl 30
• Unsanitary allegiance
  David Ball 62
• Undeniably essential albums
  Chuck Klosterman 16
• Distortion
  Russel Rathbun 17
• Is all music generic?
  Kyle Devine 18
• Powerless praise
  Christopher Giffen 20
• The posture of cool
  Aiden Enns 33
• Rocking in the religious world
  Tyler Olsen 41
• Victimized
  Maurice Mierau 47
• hip hop blaze
  Chris Riser 52
• To stand at the left hand of God
  Joe Wiebe 60
• Silent rave
  Sara Loftson 74
• The superscript music commentary (AKA a very long title)
  Aiden Enns 78
• Uncanned
  Paula Spurr 79
• Room for harmony
  Michael Dallas Miller 80
• After silence, something new
  Angelika Dawson 81
• This shirt
  Jessie van Eerden 90
• Music without end
  Stephan Wagner 92
• Mum's dance
  Emily Wierenga 93