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41. Short Cuts

    Le Trio Joubran

    Palestinian music that's the bomb... in a good way

    By Braden Ruddy

    Published: April 17, 2008

    Go anywhere in the Arab world, and one sound is omnipresent, bumping from car stereos and wafting hypnotically through narrow café-laden streets — the oud. This...

42. Live Wire

    John Holt and Freddie McGregor

    By Jonathan Cunningham

    Published: April 17, 2008

    There's no shortage of reggae music in South Florida. This place is probably the capital of reggae in the U.S., not just for its popularity but for the number of celebs who...

43. Film

    Countdown to ... Murder!

    Ridiculous Al Pacino starsin ridiculous running-down-the-clock thriller, 88 Minutes

    By Ella Taylor

    Published: April 17, 2008

    Jon Avnet's cheesy new thriller, 88 Minutes, is 105 minutes long, and going in, I feared that 100 of them would be eaten up by Al Pacino chewing the furniture. Alas, it's worse...

44. Music

    The Grrrl Grows Up

    Avril Lavigne keeps evolving, but is that a good thing?

    By Ben Westhoff

    Published: April 17, 2008

    Remember when people were calling Avril Lavigne the great grrrrl hope? Remember when Women-Who-Rock-minded scribes got all excited by Lavigne's punked-up image on the cover of...

45. Short Cuts

    Black Spade

    Old school soul via the hip-hop family tree

    By Ben Westhoff

    Published: April 17, 2008

    All of my life my father encouraged me to be open to all good music," St. Louis rapper Black Spade sings on the intro to his debut album, To Serve With Love. On his MySpace...

46. Live Wire

    Eisley

    By Monica Cady

    Published: April 17, 2008

    It doesn't seem fair that one family should have this much talent, but that's precisely the case with the indie folk-pop DuPree bunch, most widely known as Eisley. Consisting...

47. Short Cuts

    Nine Inch Nails

    Trent Reznor offers more nightmares on wax

    By Saby Reyes-Kulkarni

    Published: April 17, 2008

    While a double album containing 36 instrumental vignettes from Trent Reznor may appear to be the very definition of self-indulgence, listeners should know by now that Reznor...

48. Live Wire

    Futureman with Jake Shimabukuro

    By Jonathan Cunningham

    Published: April 17, 2008

    It's not often that someone claims to be a scientist, an inventor, and a musician, but jazz percussionist Roy "Futureman" Wooten says he's all of this and more. The four-time...