| Monthly Rock Report for October 1998 | 
| # | Artist | Title | Label | 
 | 1 | 
 Cat Power | 
 Moon Pix | 
 Matador | 
 | 2 | 
 Minders | 
 Hooray for Tuesday | 
 Spinart | 
 | 3 | 
 Various | 
 New Alliance: Ten Years After | 
 Curve of the Earth | 
 | 4 | 
 Various | 
 The Big Hits of Mid-America | 
 Plum | 
 | 5 | 
 Belle & Sebastian | 
 The Boy With the Arab Strap | 
 Matador | 
 | 6 | 
 Various | 
 Teenage Shutdown: I'm a No Count | 
 Crypt | 
 | 7 | 
 Prolapse | 
 The Italian Flag | 
 Jetset | 
 | 8 | 
 "Fair, Jad & Yo La Tengo" | 
 Strange But True | 
 Matador | 
 | 9 | 
 "Manning, Barbara" | 
 In New Zealand | 
 Communion | 
 | 10 | 
 Holland | 
 "Beep, Kiss ep" | 
 AudioInformationPhenomena | 
 | 11 | 
 All Day | 
 Nobody Likes a Quitter | 
 Know | 
 | 12 | 
 Litter | 
 $100 Fine | 
 K-Tel | 
 | 13 | 
 Various | 
 Banned in Boston | 
 Fail Safe/Einstein | 
 | 14 | 
 Hi-Fives | 
 Get Down | 
 Lookout | 
 | 15 | 
 Edith Frost | 
 Telescopic | 
 Drag City | 
 | 16 | 
 Various | 
 Teenage Shutdown: Things Been Bad | 
 Crypt | 
 | 17 | 
 Various | 
 Nuggets Sampler | 
 Rhino | 
 | 18 | 
 Ex | 
 Starters Alternators | 
 Ex/Touch & Go | 
 | 19 | 
 Queers | 
 Punk Rock Confidential | 
 Hopeless | 
 | 20 | 
 Various | 
 Marvelous Sound Forms | 
 Twisted Village | 
 | 21 | 
 Club 8 | 
 The Friend I Once Had | 
 March | 
 | 22 | 
 Electric Frankenstein | 
 I Was a Teenage Shutdown | 
 Estrus | 
 | 23 | 
 Silver Jews | 
 American Water | 
 Drag City | 
 | 24 | 
 Hovercraft | 
 Experiment Below | 
 Mute | 
 | 25 | 
 Murder City Devils | 
 Empty Bottles Broken Hearts | 
 Sub Pop | 
 | 26 | 
 Dead Boys | 
 All This and More | 
 Bomp | 
 | 27 | 
 Creation | 
 Highlights from the Complete Collection | 
 Retroactive | 
 | 28 | 
 Cherry 2000 | 
 Taint | 
 Catapult | 
 | 29 | 
 Boils | 
 When the Sun Goes Down | 
 Creep | 
 | 30 | 
 Harriet the Spy | 
 Unfuckwithable | 
 Troubleman | 
 | 31 | 
 Legendary Pink Dots | 
 Nemesis Online | 
 Soleil Moon | 
 | 32 | 
 Sloan | 
 Navy Blues | 
 Murder | 
 | 33 | 
 Blonde Redhead | 
 In an Expression of the Inexpressible | 
 Touch n Go | 
 | 34 | 
 Agnositc Front | 
 Something's Gotta Give | 
 Epitaph | 
 | 35 | 
 Pedro the Lion | 
 It's Hard to Find a Friend | 
 Made in Mexico | 
 | 36 | 
 Grasshopper and the Golden Crickets | 
 The Orbit of Eternal Grace | 
 Beggars Banquet | 
 | 37 | 
 Beck | 
 Mutations | 
 DCG/Bong Load | 
 | 38 | 
 "Joyner, Simon" | 
 "Yesterday, Tomorrow and In Between" | 
 Sing Euchuchs! | 
 | 39 | 
 8-Ball Shifter | 
 Flesh Eating Fantasy | 
 Curve of the Earth | 
 | 40 | 
 Jumprope | 
 Bookshelf Adventures | 
 Reverse Curve | 
 | 41 | 
 "Richman, Jonathan" | 
 I'm So Confused | 
 Vapor | 
 | 42 | 
 Various | 
 Teenage Shutdown: You Treated Me Bad | 
 Crypt | 
 | 43 | 
 Combustible Edison | 
 Impossible World | 
 Sub Poop | 
 | 44 | 
 Die Sterne | 
 Stell Der Verbindung Her | 
 Epic | 
 | 45 | 
 Various | 
 All Done With Mirrors | 
 Le Grand Magistry | 
 | 46 | 
 Various | 
 Rare on Air Vol. 4 | 
 Mammoth | 
 | 47 | 
 "Parkins, Zeena" | 
 No Way Back | 
 Atavistic | 
 | 48 | 
 Radiobaghdad | 
 665: Neighbor of the Beast! | 
 Onefoot | 
 | 49 | 
 Various | 
 Deeper Concentration | 
 OM Records | 
 | 50 | 
 Silver Apples | 
 The Garden | 
 Whirlybird |