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21. ˇAsk a Mexican!™

    Special "Best-Of" Edición

    Blasts from the past

    By Gustavo Arellano

    Published: December 28, 2006

    The Mexican is currently inside a trunk trying to sneak back into the United States after the Christmas holiday. Meanwhile, here are some oldies-but-goldies: A friend of mine...

22. Shrapnel

    Added Up

    Punk + folk + evolution

    By Ed Masley

    Published: December 28, 2006

    To the best of drummer Victor DeLorenzo's recollection, when the Violent Femmes unleashed their own peculiar strain of punk-inspired folk on the Milwaukee club scene of the...

23. Letters

    Letters From the Issue of Thursday, December 28, 2006

    Published: December 28, 2006

    Driven to Despair The story behind the story: I wanted to thank Paul Rubin for this wonderful article I just read ("Jump Street," December 14). As I started to read, I...

24. Shrapnel

    Cream Cropped

    Very special features

    By Ed Masley

    Published: December 28, 2006

    Watching the members of Cream retrace their steps, from Eric Clapton talking Ginger Baker into letting Jack Bruce join the band in 1966 to their acclaimed reunion in 2005, you...

25. Shrapnel

    Skanking to the Oldies

    Doing the waves

    By Benjamin Leatherman

    Published: December 28, 2006

    Imitation is most definitely the sincerest form of flattery. For a perfect example, look no further than local ska group The 2 Tone Lizard Kings. The eight-member outfit, which...

26. Shrapnel

    The Other Elvis

    With a coat of Toussaint

    By Ed Masley

    Published: December 28, 2006

    If any good can be said to have come of what Elvis Costello refers to here as "a fearsome chain of events started out by a mean-tempered woman called Katrina and ably assisted...

27. Listen Up

    The Beatles

    Love
    (Capitol)

    By Serene Dominic

    Published: December 28, 2006

    When Sgt. Pepper first came out, one reviewer called it "George Martin's finest hour." He's had several cracks at cheapening that high-water mark, from producing the disastrous...

28. Listen Up

    Bee Gees

    The Studio Albums 1967-1968
    (Reprise)

    By Serene Dominic

    Published: December 28, 2006

    Long before morphing into a three-headed disco machine, the Brothers Gibb recorded some of the weirdest head albums ever made. Robert Pollard of Guided By Voices ranked Bee...

29. Listen Up

    The Walkmen

    Pussy Cats
    (Record Collection)

    By Ed Masley

    Published: December 28, 2006

    It's hard to say why anyone would think to cover Harry Nilsson's Pussy Cats, a cover-heavy oddity whose appeal is based more on the spirit of friendship and drunken abandon...

30. Listen Up

    Nas

    Hip Hop Is Dead
    (Def Jam)

    By Ed Masley

    Published: December 28, 2006

    The cover shot shows Nas about to drop a black rose into hip-hop's open grave. But this is more a wake-up call than a eulogy, as though he's saying hip-hop may be going down,...

31. Listen Up

    Gwen Stefani

    The Sweet Escape
    (Interscope)

    By Annie Zaleski

    Published: December 28, 2006

    Gwen Stefani is still pushing the limits of ridiculousness on The Sweet Escape; after all, it takes a person quite secure in her self-confidence to bring back yodeling as a...

32. Listen Up

    Various Artists

    Fast Food Nation — Music From and Inspired by the Motion Picture
    (Park The Van)
    The Fountain — Music From the Motion Picture
    (Nonesuch)

    By Saby Reyes-Kulkarni

    Published: December 28, 2006

    Essentially an indie rock mix CD, the Fast Food Nation soundtrack can hardly be expected to convey the power or force behind filmmaker Richard Linklater and writer Eric...

33. Live Wire

    My Morning Jacket

    Because jam is a breakfast food

    By Ed Masley

    Published: December 28, 2006

    By the time My Morning Jacket dropped the reverb-laden Southern art-rock classic Z in late 2005, they'd reached the point where Rolling Stone could safely proclaim them...

34. Live Wire

    Tom VandenAvond

    Menace II sobriety

    By Benjamin Leatherman

    Published: December 28, 2006

    Tom VandenAvond embodies everything that makes alt-country awesome. He's got a surly, drank-too-much-last-night-and-now-I-gotta-perform attitude, a killer take-no-shit slogan...

35. Needle Exchange

    Hell's Bells

    Should auld acquaintance be multiply pierced

    By Benjamin Leatherman

    Published: December 28, 2006

    Y'all might be going to some fancy-ass party or hipster hootenanny on Sunday, December 31, but as for us, we're going to Hell. More specifically, Club Hell's nocturnal New...

36. Turntable

    Seven Nights of DJs and Dancing

    Who's spinning what, where and when

    Published: December 28, 2006

    Thursday 28 AZ 88: Mr. P-Body (synth pop, electro) Bunkhouse: DJ Doom (dance) Camus: KURRENT_affairs with Pablo Gomez (electronic, rock, pop, avant-garde) Club Central:...