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Friday, December 22 2006

Rock of Stages: Hello Twelve, Hello Thirteen, Hello Lust

By Nina Shen Rastogi

Can Duncan Sheik -- assisted by a fleet of 100-year-old horny German teens -- save the rock musical from itself?

Thursday, December 21 2006

Best Country of 2006

By Roger Holland

Goodbye to Academia, Pedantry, and even Austin: Roger Holland's favorite country albums of 2006 come from a very broad church indeed.

A Guide to the Lesser Woody Allen Films

By Michael Buening

The Film Forum has programmed a full-scale Woody Allen retrospective titled "Essentially Woody" featuring all the movies you've already seen. So, Buening provides a brief guide to all the Woody Allen films you didn't know existed.

Wednesday, December 20 2006

Best Folk of 2006

By Steve Horowitz

English and Scottish ballads, Cajun songs, protest music, and covers of everything from Mississippi John Hurt to Prince populate this year's notable folk records.

Best Singer/Songwriter Albums of 2006

By Michael Metivier

Dry lyrical wit, verbal playfulness, and somber epiphanies for the reluctantly mature: they're all part of Michael Metivier's best singer/songwriter albums of the year.

Tuesday, December 19 2006

Legendary Weapons of Hong Kong

By Michael Buening

Roaming North America like David Carradine, delivering kung fu and gravity-resistant swordfights, UCLA's second entry in its outstanding "Shaw Brothers' Heroic Grace" series brought its Iron Fist technique to New York's BAMcinématek.

Monday, December 18 2006

Surround Sound #9: Hodgepodge

By Kevin Jagernauth

The latest Surround Sound installment tackles a hodgepodge of kids movies, TV shows, indie flicks, and more.

Sunday, December 17 2006

Kill the House Lights: An Interview With Britt Daniel

By Eddie Ciminelli

Spoon's frontman explains his involvement with the new film Stranger Than Fiction and his love for an unlikely soundtrack.

Friday, December 15 2006

Best Hip-Hop of 2006

By Quentin B. Huff

Quentin Huff's top-ten list of mixtapers, hustlers, protesters, emcees, and self-proclaimed kings finds hip-hop very much alive and well in 2006.

Thursday, December 14 2006

The Lonely Tree: The Story of A Charlie Brown Christmas

By Brian Heater

Charlie Brown, Snoopy, and Woodstock each did their stint as a lonely Mexican cowboy, it seems. These and other things you didn't know about A Charlie Brown Christmas.

Best R&B of 2006

By Mike Joseph

Mike Joseph's picks for the year's best in R&B include manly soul men, retro futurists, sex-you-up lyricists, and one funky Jehovah's Witness.

Wednesday, December 13 2006

A Different Symphony Every Day: An Interview with Juana Molina

By Scott Wright

Argentine Juana Molina has made the rare transition from sitcom star to one-woman experimental band.

Best Indie-Pop of 2006

By Dave Heaton

Sprites, snow fairies, and pants that yell, oh my! Dave Heaton's picks for indie-pop albums of the years are an animated bunch.

Tuesday, December 12 2006

Globespotting: Best World Music of 2006

By Michael Keefe

In a year of stylistic cross-pollinations, sounds from around the world come together on Michael Keefe's list of fun and fascinating albums.

East and West: World Music in 2006

By Deanne Sole

From Thailand to Tanzania, from France to Cuba and Romania: Deanne Sole's wrap-up of the year's best world music trips the globe fantastic.

Roll Over, Courtesy of Beethoven

By Tony Sclafani

Bedtime Beats is a mega-mellow classical music CD designed to put listeners to sleep. Sound boring? Well, that’s the point. Here, a look at the science behind soporific sounds.

Monday, December 11 2006

Best Electronic Music of 2006

By Tim O'Neil

Tim O'Neil sorts through a multitude of techno, microhouse, mix CDs, and mash-ups to offer up the year's best in electronic music.

Best Jazz of 2006

By Will Layman

Will Layman's list of the year's best jazz records, a hearty baker's dozen, includes iconoclasts, eccentrics, avant-gardists, and some downright swingers.

Sunday, December 10 2006

PopMatters Picks: The Best Music of 2006

Series edited and produced by Zeth Lundy, Robert Wheaton and Sarah Zupko.

PopMatters presents the best music of 2006 in a two-week series that began last week and has included the best 60 records of 2006, the best 20 reissues and numerous genre top 10s.
On tap today: the best and worst musical events of the year.

Friday, December 8 2006

A Freight Train of Hate

By Katherine Goktepe

Michael Richards's racist outburst made him a scapegoat, but not in the way those who regard him as the "real victim" think.

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