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Wednesday 13

Dance, Dance Revolution

This was the year electronic dance music got its head -- and its ass -- out of the past

What's Selling

Top 10 sellers at Swell

Pretty Vacant

New Times' panel of critics searches for musical gems in a disheartening 2001

Sax Relief

Gumbo rewrites the tax code with the latest batch of jazz, blues and heritage releases

Forbidden Fruit

The kiddies should be lining up as we slap a parental advisory on the latest batch of jazz, blues and heritage releases

Brooklyn Knights

Medeski Martin and Wood's hip-hop jazz finds the audience it deserves

Obsessions, Passions, Perversions 2000

Music critics reveal their deepest, darkest record-buying secrets in New Times' annual poll

Morphine

Bootleg: Detroit
(Rykodisc)

Master of Puppets

Curt Kirkwood is the heart, soul and everything else of the Meat Puppets, no matter who's in the band

Pleased to Meat Me

Meat Puppets Golden Lies (Breaking Records/Atlantic)

Fourth Coming

Gumbo celebrates Independence Day and Satchmo's birth with the latest in jazz, blues and heritage

From Mohawks To Mullets

Images from 25 years of Phoenix music

She's the One

Local songstress gets ready to do business with the high and mighty

Pompousness and Circumstance

Gumbo gets smug as he samples some Coltrane, gets blue with Big Bill, does Duke with the Doc and feels some local Native American muse

Living the Blues

Local blues crusader Bob Corritore turns his boyhood dreams into reality

Smarter Hearts

Superchunk's Jon Wurster talks about the group's new album, rocking indie style in Taiwan and being name-checked by Bruce Cockburn

Under His Spell Again

A Buck Owens tribute turns into a celebration of the local music scene

I Want My MP3!

Wondermeat's Will Nerini and Eric Long have seen the future of Phoenix rock, and it's downloadable

Puppet Rulers

Reissue of the Meat Puppets' '80s catalogue reclaims the band's crucial role in the Amerindie revolution

Recordings

Reissue of the Meat Puppets' '80s catalogue reclaims the band's crucial role in the Amerindie revolution

Recordings

Reissue of the Meat Puppets' '80s catalogue reclaims the band's crucial role in the Amerindie revolution

Critical Mass

A recap of the releases that made it worthwhile to own a CD player in 1998

Shooting Star

Three years ago, at the pinnacle of their 15-year career, local rock heroes the Meat Puppets vanished from view, after bass player Cris Kirkwood became addicted to cocaine and heroin. The story only gets worse from there.

Recordings

Three years ago, at the pinnacle of their 15-year career, local rock heroes the Meat Puppets vanished from view, after bass player Cris Kirkwood became addicted to cocaine and heroin. The story only gets worse from there.

Recordings

Three years ago, at the pinnacle of their 15-year career, local rock heroes the Meat Puppets vanished from view, after bass player Cris Kirkwood became addicted to cocaine and heroin. The story only gets worse from there.

Jack's Back

Three years ago, at the pinnacle of their 15-year career, local rock heroes the Meat Puppets vanished from view, after bass player Cris Kirkwood became addicted to cocaine and heroin. The story only gets worse from there.

Low-End Theory

When it comes to Morphine's noirish, bass-heavy head trips, a little taste will treat you fine

Recordings

When it comes to Morphine's noirish, bass-heavy head trips, a little taste will treat you fine

Recordings

When it comes to Morphine's noirish, bass-heavy head trips, a little taste will treat you fine

One Night in Marrakesh

When it comes to Morphine's noirish, bass-heavy head trips, a little taste will treat you fine

Pic Hits for the week

When it comes to Morphine's noirish, bass-heavy head trips, a little taste will treat you fine

Mouldie Oldies

When it comes to Morphine's noirish, bass-heavy head trips, a little taste will treat you fine

Brand-Name Zappa

Is Rykodisc trying to (finally) get Frank Zappa's cruddy music on the radio?

Cole Comfort

Lloyd Cole returns to his roots: melodic pop and wilylyrics

MAPPING ZAPPAFROM TOILET TO TIMELESS, FRANK'S OEUVRE IS BACK IN THE STORES

Lloyd Cole returns to his roots: melodic pop and wilylyrics

RECORDINGS

Lloyd Cole returns to his roots: melodic pop and wilylyrics

VIVA JERRY JEFF!

AUSTIN OUTLAW WALKER HITS THE ROAD. AGAIN.

CD ROMP

NEW RELEASES: YOU'VE SEEN 'EM IN STORES, NOW READ ABOUT 'EM

YOKO BRINGS JOHN'S ART TO SCOTTSDALE?

NEW RELEASES: YOU'VE SEEN 'EM IN STORES, NOW READ ABOUT 'EM

BEAST OF BURDEN ONCE A BEAUTIFUL GIRLFRIEND, MATTHEW SWEET AND HIS POP GIFT HAVE TURNED INTO AN ALTERED BEAST

NEW RELEASES: YOU'VE SEEN 'EM IN STORES, NOW READ ABOUT 'EM

THE BEST OF NINETEEN NINETY TUNE

NEW RELEASES: YOU'VE SEEN 'EM IN STORES, NOW READ ABOUT 'EM

TRIAL BY FIRE AMERICAN INDIAN MOVEMENT CO-FOUNDER JOHN TRUDELL FINDS A LIFE LINE IN WORDS AND MUSIC

NEW RELEASES: YOU'VE SEEN 'EM IN STORES, NOW READ ABOUT 'EM

JUST THE FLACK, MA'AM

MUSIC-INDUSTRY PRACTITIONERS OPERATE ON FRACTURED HYPE