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21. Shrapnel

    O. Williams, Where Art Thou?

    Everyone knows it's Wendy

    By Niki D'Andrea

    Published: December 7, 2006

    Wendy O. Williams always said she liked to make "aggressive art," and that's what she did as the front woman for '80s punk-metal band The Plasmatics — sporting a Mohawk on...

22. Shrapnel

    Back and Black

    But not here

    By Ed Masley

    Published: December 7, 2006

    With 1988's It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back, Chuck D and Public Enemy positioned hip-hop as "the CNN of black culture," raging against the machine while bringing...

23. Home Grown

    White Demons

    Say Go
    (Sonic Swirl Records)

    By Niki D'Andrea

    Published: December 7, 2006

    The guys in White Demons may occasionally wear eyeliner and tight jeans, but there is not a single song about a chick on this CD and not one stinky whiff of shitty emo. What...

24. Home Grown

    Mourning Woody

    Unplugged
    (self-released)

    By Niki D'Andrea

    Published: December 7, 2006

    There's just something so awesomely asinine about a hicked-out country cover of Depeche Mode's "Personal Jesus," which is the leadoff track on this EP of eclectic, acoustic...

25. Live Wire

    The Weary Boys, and Roses Pawn Shop

    Yeah, we said bluegrass

    By Niki D'Andrea

    Published: December 7, 2006

    The Weary Boys and Rose's Pawn Shop show is the best double bill in bluegrass for both purists and evolutionists. RPS has a malleable alt-country sound, wrapped up in...

26. Live Wire

    Kill Hannah, and Pink Spiders

    Move yourself. Or they will

    By Mikael Wood and Andrea Noble

    Published: December 7, 2006

    In eyelinered Chicago goth-pop wanna-bes Kill Hannah's sort-of hit "Kennedy," singer Mat Devine brags that he wants to be a Kennedy and, after living fast and breaking hearts...

27. Live Wire

    Primus

    You can dress them up

    By Daniel Mee

    Published: December 7, 2006

    You don't have to be a dork to like Primus, but these days it sure helps. Dismissed by critics and hipsters alike as "cartoonish weirdo wankery" and almost universally named as...

28. Live Wire

    Panic! At the Disco

    Emo! at the Arena

    By Ed Masley

    Published: December 7, 2006

    Voted most likely to bring an accordion and dance-punk beats to the emo-kid table at lunch, the exquisitely dressed young men of Panic! At the Disco took their first step down...

29. Live Wire

    Napalm Death

    Loving the smell

    By Saby Reyes-Kulkarni

    Published: December 7, 2006

    When it made its first crude, unintelligible blast onto the metal landscape, no one could have foreseen that Napalm Death would do anything other than flare out into obscurity...

30. Live Wire

    Faggot

    Word out

    By Benjamin Leatherman

    Published: December 7, 2006

    Fuck amps that go to 11 — Tim Carroll lives life with the volume ratcheted up to 20. The 48-year-old gay vocalist for Minneapolis punk foursome Faggot is hardly shy about...

31. Listen Up

    Sonic Youth

    Destroyed Room: B-Sides & Rarities
    (Geffen)

    By Ray Cummings

    Published: December 7, 2006

    The SYR series of recordings were the right idea at the right time. Issued via Sonic Youth's imprint — beginning in 1997 and continuing, albeit sporadically, to the...

32. Listen Up

    Marco Carola

    Fabric 31
    (Fabric)

    By Dominic Umile

    Published: December 7, 2006

    The first-ever mix CD to come from Napoli's Marco Carola shows no signs of amateurism. After all, Carola is quite familiar with techno, having been DJing at least since 1990,...

33. Needle Exchange

    Spliff

    Chronically hottt

    By Benjamin Leatherman

    Published: December 7, 2006

    Downtown Phoenix seems to be a ginormous cluster-fuck of urban progress these days. Between the massive mess of light-rail construction and a few new skyscrapers going up, it's...

34. Turntable

    Seven Nights of DJs and Dancing

    Who's spinning what, where and when

    Published: December 7, 2006

    Thursday 7 AZ 88: Mr. P-Body (synth pop, electro) Bunkhouse: DJ Doom (dance) Cat Eye: DJ Diesel (rock, punk) The Crown Room: DJ Gable (rock, house, hip-hop) Dos...

35. What's Selling

    Top 10 selling CDs at Circles, 800 North Central Avenue

    Chart-busters for the week

    Published: December 7, 2006

    1. Snoop Dogg, The Blue Carpet Treatment (Geffen) 2. Akon, Konvicted (Umvd) 3. Jay-Z, Kingdom Come (Roc-a-Fella) 4. Incubus, Light Grenades (Sony) 5. The Game, Doctor's...