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21. Home Grown

    Tigerface

    Early City Murder Time
    (self-released)

    By Ed Masley

    Published: September 14, 2006

    It doesn't sound like Murder Time. There's no screaming. No tension. No sign of a struggle. The opening track, "It's One Thing," starts off sounding like the kind of thing old...

22. Home Grown

    Drunken Immortals

    Hot Concrete
    (Universatile Music)

    By Steve Jansen

    Published: September 14, 2006

    Before we even marinated our eardrums to Hot Concrete — the Drunken Immortals' third full-length album that's out to steal your mind with positive hip-hop vibrations and...

23. Home Grown

    EastonAshe

    Can I Drive It?
    (self-released)

    By Niki D'Andrea

    Published: September 14, 2006

    The best way to describe EastonAshe's sound is "adult contemporary rock." The Cave Creek-based band has a mature sound, audible in rich compositions like "Bayou Blues," which...

24. Listen Up

    Lambchop

    Damaged
    (Merge Records)

    By Tim Grierson

    Published: September 14, 2006

    Albums without lyric sheets can frustrate fans who want to memorize the words they're singing and pore over their poetic meanings. But with Lambchop, it's best not to worry...

25. Listen Up

    Xiu Xiu

    The Air Force
    (5 Rue Christine)

    By Andrew Marcus

    Published: September 14, 2006

    If the creepy painting on the cover of Xiu Xiu's The Air Force is supposed to depict singer-songwriter Jamie Stewart as Jesus, it's ironic at best: Unlike the traditional...

26. Live Wire

    Massive Attack

    Here comes the trendsetter

    By Michael Roberts

    Published: September 14, 2006

    Massive Attack's Robert del Naja, a.k.a. 3D, was initially known not as a musician, but as a teenage graffiti artist — yet his connection to Bristol's underground...

27. Live Wire

    Ben Kweller

    If Beck were young and cute

    By Ed Masley

    Published: September 14, 2006

    Not many kids can say their high school band touched off a major-label bidding war. But it was after leaving Radish in the lurch at 17 that indie whiz-kid Ben Kweller made good...

28. Live Wire

    Blowfly

    Betty White and other dirty hos

    By C. Murphy Hebert

    Published: September 14, 2006

    Blowfly's Punk Rock Party is so filthy Tipper Gore might spontaneously combust if anyone ever played it for her. The original nasty rapper's new album is scandalous, obscene...

29. Live Wire

    Brian Jonestown Massacre

    Fine, not Dandy

    By Casey Lynch

    Published: September 14, 2006

    Some musicians maintain legendary rivalries for decades on end — try getting Sting and Stewart Copeland to bury the hatchet and you'll see what we mean. Very rarely,...

30. Live Wire

    Dwight Yoakam

    And he acts, too

    By Ed Masley

    Published: September 14, 2006

    The most Elvis-like country performer since Elvis, Dwight Yoakam established his cred as a country traditionalist when he kicked off his first major-label release with a...

31. Live Wire

    Southern Culture on the Skids

    Making no promises

    By Michael Alan Goldberg

    Published: September 14, 2006

    A little more than 10 years ago, I actually proposed to my girlfriend at a Southern Culture on the Skids New Year's Eve show in New Jersey. Why not, I figured — there was...

32. Needle Exchange

    Andy Rourke

    Magic hands

    By Benjamin Leatherman

    Published: September 14, 2006

    While he might not be as famous as Morrissey or Johnny Marr, bassist and guitarist Andy Rourke was still a vital part of legendary English rockers The Smiths. Handling his bass...

33. Turntable

    Seven Nights of DJs and Dancing

    Who's spinning what, where and when

    Published: September 14, 2006

    Thursday 14Acme Roadhouse: College Night with DJ J. Alan (Top 40) Anderson's Fifth Estate: Area 51 with DJ Jeremy (goth, industrial) Baja Tilly's: DJs Richy Rich and Big...