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21. Playbill

    Aspera

    Saturday, November 17

    By John Stoehr

    Published: November 15, 2001

    When you first talk to Aspera, you think they're high. Really high. High as Dr. John was the day he wrote "I Walk on Guilded Splinters." But after a few minutes, you find...

22. News Hostage

    If Six Were Nine

    The Chron cooks the books for a circulation boast

    By Richard Connelly

    Published: November 15, 2001

    The proud headline greeted readers in the Sunday paper November 4: "Chronicle Now Sixth-Largest Daily." According to the story, Houston's Leading Information Source was bigger...

23. Rotation

    Spiritualized

    Let It Come Down (Arista)

    By Michael Gallucci

    Published: November 15, 2001

    In the four years since Spiritualized's last album, the cosmos-tripping Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating in Space, singer- guitarist Jason Pierce more or less fired the...

24. Letters

    Letters, November 15

    Fishy Business, Bad Taste, Band Aid

    Published: November 15, 2001

    Fishy Business "Scales" of justice: Great article ["Fish Fraud," by Robb Walsh, November 1], but my reading of the Texas Deceptive Trade Practices Act should most certainly...

25. Rotation

    Stereolab

    Sound-Dust (Elektra)

    By Arnold Pan

    Published: November 15, 2001

    One of indie rock's most consistent and compelling outfits for more than a decade, Stereolab has finally taken its place alongside the underground's most venerable elder...

26. Local Rotation

    Screw Heads

    Forever and a Day (Avarice/JCOR Entertainment)

    By Craig D. Lindsey

    Published: November 15, 2001

    It's difficult to listen to this tribute album with a critical ear. (Even more so now since Friday, November 17, marks the first anniversary of DJ Screw's death.) For each...

27. Minibill

    Karen Poston

    Wednesday, November 21

    By Rob Patterson

    Published: November 15, 2001

    Midway between Karen Poston's central Ohio homestead and her current Austin base is a place called Nashville. Real Bad, Poston's debut album, is similarly situated between her...

28. Minibill

    Flogging Molly

    Friday, November 16

    By Brandon Cullum

    Published: November 15, 2001

    California's Flogging Molly is a refreshing respite from a pop music world increasingly saturated with marketing-friendly pseudo-punk bands spewing less-than-lyrical songs...

29. Minibill

    Poe

    Wednesday, November 21

    By Eric A.T. Dieckman

    Published: November 15, 2001

    Haunted, Poe's second album, is an exploration of her relationship with her father, the deceased documentarian Tad Danielewski. Using sampled recordings, Poe has lyrical...