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41. Niki's Pick

    Napalm Death

    Scum
    (Earache)

    By Niki D'Andrea

    Published: April 24, 2008

    This 1987 album is widely regarded as the best album in the long discography of Napalm Death, a band that basically invented grindcore, combining elements of speed metal...

42. Listen Up

    Destroyer

    Trouble in Dreams
    (Merge)

    By Mark Keresman

    Published: April 24, 2008

    For decades, critics have been leveling such denunciations as arch, portentous, heavy-handed, and precious at rock music. Destroyer's Dan Bejar has managed to turn those...

43. Listen Up

    The Felice Brothers

    The Felice Brothers
    (Team Love)

    By Matt Young

    Published: April 24, 2008

    If pre-electric Bob Dylan knocked up the Carter family and the offspring that followed were the ringleaders of a band of rebel Irish immigrant poets who lived in the Catskills...

44. Listen Up

    The B-52's

    Funplex
    (Astralwerks)

    By j. poet

    Published: April 24, 2008

    When we last heard from the Bs, their future seemed uncertain. Cindy Wilson had left the band, and though the remaining trio's Good Stuff album of 1992 wasn't bad, it didn't...

45. Live Wire

    The Night Marchers

    By Jay Bennett

    Published: April 24, 2008

    Three years after dissolving Rocket from the Crypt and Hot Snakes nearly simultaneously, John "Speedo" Reis is back in the fold with a formidable new San Diego-based quartet...

46. Live Wire

    Tegan and Sara

    By Chris Parker

    Published: April 24, 2008

    Though twins Tegan and Sara Quinn grew up on punk, they've demonstrably honed their pop instincts and graduated from folk-tinged New Wave/pop-punk to something more...

47. Live Wire

    Spyro Gyra

    By Ernest Barteldes

    Published: April 24, 2008

    After more than 30 years of recording and touring, you'd think that these gentlemen would be jaded about making music, but listening to them perform, you realize that nothing...

48. Booze Pig

    Booze Pig's looking for the missing "T" at Closing Soon Saloon

    By C.M. Redding

    Published: April 24, 2008

    Lonely days in Phoenix lead to lonely springtime in the desert. Everything is blooming and fornicating, humping, discharging, and collecting all the time, leaving you standing...

49. Needle Exchange

    Ultra Lounge DJs

    By Benjamin Leatherman

    Published: April 24, 2008

    At most DJ and dance nights going down around the Valley, chances are you'll be shaking your moneymaker to the same genres of music week after endless week. That ain't the case...

50. Turntable

    Seven nights of DJs and dancing

    Published: April 24, 2008

    THURSDAY 24 Blooze Bar: DJ El Dedo (rockabilly) Bunkhouse: DJ Doom (dance) Club Forbidden: DJ Domenica, DJ Hill, & DJ MJ (various) Club Red: The Blunt Club with...

51. Cafe

    Pho Avina might be worth going back to college for

    By Michele Laudig

    Published: April 24, 2008

    For years after I graduated from college, I spent way too much time jonesing to go back. Somewhere along the line, though, I stopped obsessively ordering grad school catalogs...

52. Film

    Harold and Kumar Escape From Guantanamo Bay in this forced sequel

    By Robert Wilonsky

    Published: April 24, 2008

    Jon Hurwitz and Hayden Schlossberg wrote Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle with the novel idea: What if you made a John Hughes movie, but instead of writing garishly...

53. Film

    Baby Mama succeeds in reuniting Fey and Poehler but not much else

    By Robert Wilonsky

    Published: April 24, 2008

    Could have sworn I've seen this episode of Baby Mama before — like sometime in January 2007, when it was originally titled "The Baby Show" and aired on the other...

54. Film

    Wong Kar Wai's My Blueberry Nights doesn't measure up

    By Michelle Orange

    Published: April 24, 2008

    Watching Marilyn Monroe in Cinemascope, a critic once wrote, is "like being smothered in baked Alaska." Reading that as a teenager raised some thrilling questions: Is that good...

55. Film Feature

    The next wave of post-9/11 political films trade sobriety for satire

    By Anthony Kaufman

    Published: April 24, 2008

    Earnest, sad, and righteous, they are not. More inspired by M*A*S*H or Dr. Strangelove than The Deer Hunter or Coming Home, a new pack of political films that defy the...

56. Brown Town

    Marcos Najera asks the Fifth Question – am I a Jew?

    By Marcos Najera

    Published: April 24, 2008

    Not long ago, I went to a play in East L.A., where I ran into a fantastic young Latina filmmaker named Almudena Carracedo (www.madeinla.com). She's from Madrid. I told her how...

57. Stage

    Collected Stories: a conversation-based play that works

    By Robrt L. Pela

    Published: April 24, 2008

    She's what's politely called a curmudgeon, but more commonly called a bitch. Ruth Steiner is a short-tempered, arrogant, bossy woman "of a certain age," a celebrated writer of...

58. Game On

    Monotonous game play leaves Baroque just that

    By Gary Hodges

    Published: April 24, 2008

    Atlus' Baroque imagines eternal life in gaming limbo. It isn't pretty. First of all: God bless Atlus. As a publisher devoted to bringing obscure Japanese gaming gems to the...