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Readers Poll Results 2005 — Country

PUBLISHED Jan 1, 2006

1. LORETTA LYNNVan Lear Rose (Interscope)"Forget the shit they play on your mainstream country channels that you're probably just as likely...

Readers Poll Results 2005 — Metal

PUBLISHED Jan 1, 2006

1. CONVERGEYou Fail Me (Epitaph)"Roommates have complained about the volume at which I play the noisy stuff, but with this I don't even nee...

Hip-Hop

Year in Review 2005

PUBLISHED Jan 1, 2006

COMMON Be (Geffen) Common's poetic lyricism, clever wordplay and distinctive, raspy voice, along with his willingness to expose his own fl...

Folk, Country & Blues

Year in Review 2005

PUBLISHED Jan 1, 2006

CALEXICO/IRON & WINE In The Reins (Overcoat) Fans of Calexico and Iron and Wine were expecting wonderful things from this union; no one was...

Pop & Rock

Year in Review 2005

PUBLISHED Jan 1, 2006

SUFJAN STEVENS Illinois (Asthmatic Kitty) When informed earlier this year that pre-orders for his Midwest epic Illinois had reached 40,000,...

Experimental & Avant-Garde

Year in Review 2005

PUBLISHED Jan 1, 2006

KONONO #1 Congotronics (Crammed)Kinshasa, Congo's Konono # 1 hits with waves of electric thumb pianos, distorted call and response vocals,...

Electronic

Year in Review 2005

PUBLISHED Jan 1, 2006

LCD SOUNDSYSTEM (Geffen)Though he came across as an aging, know-it-all hipster whose status was slipping away in 2002's "Losing My Edge" si...

Metal & Hardcore

Year in Review 2005

PUBLISHED Jan 1, 2006

CURSEDTwo (Goodfellow)"I think hardcore has gotten really cryptic and empty," says Cursed vocalist Chris Colohan. "I think cynicism used to...