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41. Home Grown

    Blessthefall

    His Last Walk
    (Science/Ferret International)

    By Serene Dominic

    Published: August 16, 2007

    If you took a hand counter to a televangelist, you'd click six times as many references to Satan as to his former boss — it's way better for the play-acting to grouse and...

42. Listen Up

    Billie Holiday

    Remixed & Reimagined
    (Sony Legacy)

    By Niki D'Andrea

    Published: August 16, 2007

    I can hear the ghost of Billie Holiday now: "What the hell is that, a programmed drum beat? Why is it burying my vocals? How could they turn all my winsome wails into sound...

43. Locals Only

    Eroticide

    Yay, torture!

    By Daniel Raven

    Published: August 16, 2007

    It's hard to tell if the musicians in Eroticide received too much attention from their mothers or if they received too little of it. Whatever the situation, it seems likely...

44. Live Wire

    Deep Purple

    Swiss time is running out

    By Serene Dominic

    Published: August 16, 2007

    Here's a reconstituted '70s classic-rock group with an otherwise engaged leader. Deep Purple's grumpy guitar hero, Ritchie Blackmore, probably hasn't even played the "Smoke on...

45. Live Wire

    Zappa Plays Zappa

    The Zappa doesn't fall far from the tree

    By Henry Cabot Beck

    Published: August 16, 2007

    This is not Frank Sinatra Jr. embarrassing his dad by warbling "My Way" for the Geritol geezers, nor is it Mercer Ellington working hard to do the Duke proud and missing the...

46. Live Wire

    Chris Isaak

    What a wicked hit it is

    By Saby Reyes-Kulkarni

    Published: August 16, 2007

    Most of the time, the songs that come to represent an artist in the public's memory don't do justice to the full scope of the artist's musical accomplishments across an entire...

47. Needle Exchange

    Ravers of the Caribbean

    We sail at nine-ish

    By Benjamin Leatherman

    Published: August 16, 2007

    Bust out the guyliner and yer Jack Sparrow duds, landlubbers, because the raving lunatics of Karma Productions and Nightowl Entertainment are, err . . . pirating Disney's...

48. Turntable

    Seven Nights of DJs and Dancing

    Who's spinning what, where and when

    Published: August 16, 2007

    Thursday 16 Anderson’s: S.W.A.G. Thursdays with DJ Essence, DJ Astonish, & Bryce Breeze (hip-hop, reggae, R&B) Blooze: DJ El Dedo (rockabilly) Bunkhouse: DJ Doom...