1/10/2003
Best of 2002 Special
N=new release R=requested C=compilation release
| Artist | Song Title | Album | Record Label | NRC |
| Demons | Hot Running Blood | Stockholm Slump | Gearhead | N |
| Yeah Yeah Yeahs | Machine | Machine single | Touch and Go | N |
| Motorhead | Brave New World | Hammered | CMC | |
| Selby Tigers | Snoball | Curse of the... | Hopeless | |
| Jets to Brazil | Perfecting Loneliness | Perfecting Loneliness | Jade Tree | |
| Trial By Fire | One Last Gasp | Ringing in the Dawn | Jade Tree | |
| Hellacopters | I Got a Right | Cream of the Crap Vol. 1 | Gearhead | |
| Atmosphere | Breathing | God Loves Ugly | Rhymesayers | |
| The Lost Sounds | Energy Drinks and the Long Walk Home | Rat's Brains and Microchips | Empty | N |
| Feeder'z | Burning MP3's | Vandalism: Beautiful as a Rock in a Cop's Face | Broken Rekids | N |
| NoFX | San Francisco Fat | 45 or 46 Songs That Weren't Good Enough to Go on Our Other Albums | Fat Wreck | |
| Bongzilla | Hashdealer | Gateway | Relapse | |
| Liars | Mister You're On Fire Mister | They Threw Us in a Trench | Blast First | |
| Against Me | Those Anarcho Punks are Mysterious | Reinventing Axl Rose | No Idea | |
| The Mekons | Thee Olde Road to Jerusalem | OOOH! | Quarterstick | |
| The Means | 4 Black Hearts | VIL/VIOL | doubleplusgood | |
| Nashville Pussy | Keep On Fucking | Say Something Nasty | Artemis | |
| C.O.C.O. | Intro | The C.O.C.O. Sound | K | |
| Weezer | Take Control | Maladroit | DGC | |
| Jucifer | Vulture Story | I Name You Destroyer | Velocette | |
| Steve Earle | Time Has Come Today | Sidetracks | Artemis | |
| Pavement | Summer Babe | Slanted and Enchanted: Luxe and Redux | Matador | N |
| Glass Pack | TV Eye | Sucking the 70's | Small Stone | N,C |
| Flogging Molly | Drunken Lullabies | Drunken Lullabies | SideOneDummy | |
| The Catheters | Nothing | Static Delusions | Sub Pop | |
| Rancid | Bob | BYO split series w/ NoFX | BYO | |
| The Distillers | Lordy Lordy | Sing Sing Death House | Hellcat | |
| Dillinger Four | New Punk Fashions For the Spring Formal | Situationist Comedy | Fat Wreck | |
| Black NASA | Diamond Girl | s/t | Tee Pee | |
| The Catastrophe | Declaration: Frozen Sky | A Model Society | Catastrophic | |
| Way Off the Horse | Don't Go Messing With Sharks | Das Disappointment | Crustacean | |
| Rotten Apples | Plastic World | Real-Tuff | Empty | |
| Jurassic 5 | The Break | Power in Numbers | Interscope | |
| Anti-Flag | Anatomy of the Enemy | Mobilize | A-F | |
| Bottles and Skulls | American Dreams | Amped the Fuck Up | Sickroom | |
| Tummler | Shooting Blanks | Early Man | Small Stone | N |
| Bad Religion | The Defense | The Process of Belief | Epitaph | |
| Skeleton Key | Dingbat Revolution | Obtanium | Ipecac | |
| Original Sinners | Birds and Bees | s/t | Nitro | |
| Hot Water Music | Remedy | Caution | Epitaph | |
| Lifter Puller | The Bears | Soft Rock | Self Starter Foundation | N |
| Sonic Youth | Radical Adults Lick Godhead Style | Murray Street | Geffen | |
| Moist Boyz | Tweaker | III | Ipecac | |
| Girls Against Boys | Basstation | You Can't Fight What You Can't See | Jade Tree | |
| Waco Brothers | Blink of an Eye | New Deal | Bloodshot | N |
| My Morning Jacket | Sweetheart | Chocolate and Ice EP | Badman | |
| Johnny Cash | I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry | American IV | American |
N=new release R=requested C=compilation release
