Here's the playlist for 7/4/98 (featuring all-American prog!)
(Those titles with a "#" were donations)
| Artist | Title | Album | Label |
| Frank Zappa | The Little House I Used to Live In | Burnt Weeny Sandwich | Rykodisc |
| finneus gauge | more wants more | # more once more | Cyclops |
| echolyn | Here I Am | Suffocating the Bloom | independent |
| Happy the Man | Stumpy Meets the Firecracker in Stencil Forest | Happy the Man | Arista |
| 5uu's | Goliath in the Sights | # Crisis in Clay | RéR |
| Pentwater | EM 54 | Out of the Abyss | Syn-Phonic |
| Boud Deun | December 17th | # Astronomy Made Easy | Cuneiform |
| Absolute Zero | Paradigms | # A Live in the Basement | independent |
| Laurie Anderson | Smoke Rings | Home of the Brave | Warner Bros. |
| Yezda Urfa | Flow Guides Aren't My Bag | Sacred Baboon | Syn-Phonic |
| The Dark Aether Project | Drive Time | # The Dark Aether Project | independent |
| The Muffins | Hobart Got Burned | Manna / Mirage | Wayside Music Archive Series |
| Marc Johnson | Samurai Hee-Haw | Bass Desires | ECM |
| Doctor Nerve | Take Your Ears as the Bones of Their Queen | Skin | Cuneiform |
| Bionaut | Barn Modulated Trance Dirge | # Au Naturel | independent |
| Dream Theater | Metropolis - part I | Images and Words | ATCO |
| U Totem | U Totem (FEATURED ALBUM) | Cuneiform | |
| Return to Forever | The Romantic Warrior | Romantic Warrior | Columbia |
| Volaré | Cropcircles | The Uncertainty Principle | The Laser's Edge |
| David Torn | What Means Solid, Traveller? | What Means Solid, Traveller? | CMP |
| Miles Davis | Gondwana | Pangaea | Columbia |