Year-end ROUND-UP of 2002 RELEASES
| 
 | New | Artist | Song title | Release title/format | Label (Year Recorded/Released) | 
| 1 | X | Tremeloes | Instant Whip (instr) | DJ Pogo presents Block Party Breaks 2 (comp)/cd | Strut (02) | 
| 2 | 
 | Screaming Lord Sutch | Til the Following Night | It's Hard to Believe: The Amazing World of Joe Meek (comp)/cd | Razor & Tie (61/95) | 
| 3 | 
 | Hasil Adkins | Turn my coat tails loose | Out to Hunch (reiss)/cd | Norton (02) | 
| 4 | 
 | One String Sam | I Need $100 (live, Ann Arbor Blues & Jazz Fest, 1973) | Straight outta Burbank: 25 years behind the music (comp)/2xcd | Bomp/Alive Total Energy (99) | 
| 5 | X | John Lennon | Bring on the Lucie (demo) | Mind Games (reiss)/cd | Capitol (73/02) | 
| 6 | 
 | Morty Shann & The Morticians | Movin' In | Kicksville vol 2 (50s-60s comp)/cd | Norton (02) | 
| 7 | 
 | The Whitefild Brothers | Sol Walk (instr) | In the Raw/cd | Soul Fire (02) | 
| 8 | 
 | Laurie Anderson | Animals | Live in New York, Sept 19-20, 2001/2xcd | Nonesuch (02) | 
| 9 | 
 | The Phenomenological Boys | Everthing's got a shade of green | st/cd | self (02) | 
| 10 | X | Kinski | Semphone (instr) | Airs Above Your Station/cd | Sub Pop (02) | 
| 11 | 
 | The Romans | Tuned Out (intro) (instr) | You only live once/cd | Warning label (02) | 
| 12 | 
 | bikneva | Shakey's Dance (instr) | st/cd | Big John (02) | 
| 13 | 
 | Mellow | Rivolizione Sessantanove (instr) | CQ soundtrack (comp)/cd | Emperor Norton (02) | 
| 14 | X | Henry Jacob’s Vortex | For the Big Horn (instr) | Electronic Kabuki Mambo (reiss)/cd | Locust Music (02) (Folkways/59) | 
| 15 | 
 | Stereophonic Space Sound Unlimited | 36° in the shade (instr) | Jet Sound Inc./cd | Dionysus (02) | 
| 16 | 
 | Medusa Cyclone | Pulsar (instr) | Tangier/cd | Small Stone (02) | 
| 17 | X | Waistcoats | Entering the Black Hole (instr) | All the Rage/cd | Wildebeest (02) | 
| 18 | X | Henry Jacob’s Vortex | Electronic Kabuki Mambo (instr) | Electronic Kabuki Mambo (reiss)/cd | Locust Music (59/02) | 
| 19 | 
 | Bugskull | Fair are the Sails (instr) | & the Big White Cloud/cd | Scratch (02) | 
| 20 | X | Malcom Clark | Bath Time (instr) | BBC Radiophonic Workshop (comp)/cd | BBC (02) | 
| 21 | X | Sunburned Hand of the Man | A Second Guess (instr) | Headdress/LP | Records (02) | 
| 22 | BOC | Monks | Monk Time (demo) | 5 Upstart Americans/cd | Omplatten (65/99) | 
| 23 | B | Monks | Monk Chant (live) (instr) | Black Monk Time (reiss)/cd | Infinite Zero (66/97) | 
| 24 | A | Monks | Shut Up | Black Monk Time (reiss)/cd | Infinite Zero (65/97) | 
| 25 | N | Monks | Hushie Pushie (demo) | 5 Upstart Americans/cd | Omplatten (65/99) | 
| 26 | D | Monks | Cuckoo (live) | Let's Start a Beat (Cavestomp)/cd | Varese Sarabande (99/00) | 
| 27 | of | Monks | Complication | Black Monk Time (reiss)/cd | Infinite Zero (65/97) | 
| 28 | the | Monks | I Hate You (demo) | 5 Upstart Americans/cd | Omplatten (65/99) | 
| 29 | Week | Monks | Blast Off! (live) | Let's Start a Beat (Cavestomp)/cd | Varese Sarabande (99/00) | 
| 30 | 
 | Link Wray and the Wraymen | Stupid Pony (instr) | Slinky! The Epic Sessions: 58-61/2xcd | Sundazed (00) | 
| 31 | 
 | Link Wray and the Wraymen | Right Turn (instr) | Slinky!/2xcd | Sundazed (00) | 
| 32 | 
 | Link Wray and the Wraymen | Rawhide (instr) | Slinky!/2xcd | Sundazed (00) | 
| 33 | X | The Beachcombers | The Wheely (instr) | I'm Walkin' Babe: Northwest Battle of the Bands Vol 3 (comp)/cd | Sundazed (65/02) | 
| 34 | 
 | Minutemen | Cohesion (instr) | Double Nickels on the Dime/cd | SST (89) | 
| 35 | X | Dan Melchoir | Hey x 4 | This is the Medway Sound/LP | Smart Guy (02) | 
| 36 | 
 | Unknown Mystery 60's Group | Morrell Park | Vol 2/cd | Octopus (02) | 
| 37 | X | The Waistcoats | Jack's Day Off (instr) | All the Rage/cd | Wildebeest (02) | 
| 38 | 
 | Stereophonic Space Sound Unlimited | The Wizard (instr) | Jet Sounds Inc./cd | Dionysys (02) | 
| 39 | CR | Rhys Chatham | Die Donnergötter (instr) (1985) | A Compendium/cd | Table of Elements (02) | 
| 40 | X | The Raymarks | Walking Down the Street | I'm Walkin' Babe: NW Battle of the Bands Vol 3 (comp)/cd | Sundazed (64/02) | 
| 41 | X | The Styrenes | I Saw You (live, Boston, 5/29/83) | It's Still Artastic/cd | ROIR (02) | 
| 42 | X | Feast of Snakes | Bow Legged Woman (instr) | 7" | dropkick (02) | 
| 43 | X | 23 Skidoo | 23 Break (instr) | Just like every body part two/cd | Ronin (02) | 
| 44 | 
 | MC Trachiotomy | South Pacific Weenie Roast | with Love from Tahiti/cd | Bulb (02) | 
| 45 | X | Sugarman 3 and Co. | Honey Wagon (instr) | Pure Cane Sugar/cd | Daptone (02) | 
| 46 | X | Xray Spex | I can't do anything (instr) | Anthology: Germ free adolescents/2xcd | Castle (02) | 
| 47 | X | Stereolab | John Cage Bubble Gum | ABC Music (BBC)/2xcd | Strange Fruit (02) | 
| 48 | 
 | Spectrum | Quiabos | Blessed Generation soundtrack (Brazil)/cd | Normal (71/02) | 
| 49 | 
 | Mellow | Dragon Fly Car Chase (instr) | CQ soundtrack (comp)/cd | Emperor Norton (02) | 
| 50 | X | The New Colony Six | At the River's Edge | Breakthrough (reiss)/cd | Sundazed (66/02) | 
| 51 | X | Tracks | Brakes on You (live, at The Club in Cambridge) | Brakes on You!/cd ep | 2-Tough (77/02) | 
| 52 | 
 | Coachwhips | Like food it feeds | Get your body close to mine/LP | Show and tell (02) | 
| 53 | 
 | USAI$AMONSTER | Trippa Babippa | Citizens of the universe/LP | Infrasound (02) | 
| 54 | 
 | Melvins | Dr. Geek | Hostile Ambient Takeover/cd | Ipecac (02) | 
| 55 | 
 | Minutemen | Nature Without Man | Double Nickels on the Dime/cd | SST (89) | 
| 56 | X | Destroy All Monsters | Intro: In Dreams (instr) | Silver Wedding Anniversary: Reunion Tour 1995 | Sympathy for the record industry (02) | 
| 57 | X | Waistcoats | Death Car (instr) | All the Rage/cd | Wildebeest (02) |