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Hard Candy is Madonna at her most fun
Pet sounds truly dangerous
Cobblestone Jazz makes techno by hand
Cat Power
Stereolab
Hank Williams
Various Artists: Goth Industrial Club Anthems
Johnny Cash

Hard Candy is Madonna at her most fun

By Shawn Conner
Hard Candy (Warner)

Le Loup

By Kim Sutherland
The Throne of the Third Heaven of the Nations’ Millennium General Assembly (Hardly Art)

Steve Stevens

By Steve Newton
Memory Crash (Magna Carta)

No Age

By Gregory Adams
Nouns (Sub Pop)

The Last Shadow Puppets

By Adrian Mack
The Age of the Understatement (Domino)

Quiet Village

By Martin Turenne
Silent Movie (!K7)

Rupa & the April fishes

By Tony Montague
Extraordinary Rendition (Cumbancha)

Pet sounds truly dangerous

By Mike Usinger
Be Your Own Pet

Korpiklaani

By Lucas Aykroyd
Korven Kuningas (Nuclear Blast)

Sun Kil Moon

By Gregory Adams
April (Caldo Verde)

Pouya Mahmoodi

By Alexander Varty
Mehr (Faryaad)

R.E.M. - Accelerate (Warner Bros.)

By Adrian Mack
Does anybody else get the impression that Michael Stipe was replaced with a bald and annoying imposter at some point?

We Are Scientists - Brain Thrust Mastery (EMI/Virgin)

By Shawn Conner
With their brainy, danceable new-wave pop, We Are Scientists was pegged early on as Brooklyn’s answer to Franz Ferdinand and the Arctic Monkeys.

Throw Me the Statue - Moonbeams (Secretly Canadian)

By Adrian Mack
It’s too long, but it’s not like the clever bugger behind Moonbeams, Throw Me the Statue’s Scott Reitherman, is short on ideas.