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A | every sub genre from trance to just plain fucked up... An expensive dou-
MC Paul Barman: Paullelujah! | Bis a | ble CD to order, but worth every penny. :
“’m not a square, I’m the mono-| ease

lith, the guy your girl got in the |.
sauna with.” MC Paul Barman is
somewhat of an underground rap messiah, displaying all the vulgarity of 2 | Panlleh oe Best Brutally
Live Crew, the indicitave white-boy flow of Eminem, and the intellect of
Stephen Hawking. This New Jersey Native, educated at Brown University Heavy 2002
mixes poo-poo jokes and anti-war sentiment like cocktails. You will probably
need a dictionary to understand his rhymes(“not a modicum, a lotta cum’),
but a more verbose MC you will never see.

one else thinks it rock too.
Smart, funny and most of all,
really fawkin’ good, this has
become a favorite of almost
everyone, with the exception
of deaf people. Feel the
irony.

Sweatshop Union: Sweatshop Union
The greatest canadian rap group | have ever heard, hands down. Every bit
as catchy as Swollen Members, with rhymes that focus on Sid’s, drug
abuse, WTO, workers rights, and a whole swag-load of other good stuff. A
shining ek of the type of men the canadian rap scene simply needs

Audioslave: Audioslave :
The band formerly known as Opeth: Deliverance

Civilian, formerly known as - === Se : Deliverance, and the upcoming
“That dude from | Damnation (early 2003) are the
Soundgarden and those! latest efforts by gods of
dudes from Rage Against | prog/death metal Opeth.
The Machine” finally release | ; - Deliverance still displays the
their debut, and rock you ; zx heavy/soft dynamic that made
speakers hard enough to nds Mite es Blackwater Park so much fun to
‘make you wet your pants en we listen to, but it manages to be
Finally the world is allowed | : even heavier than you can ever
to see what Rage against 42 " } imagine.

The Machine could have |

been if it wasn't so angry, | PURPLE ONION Nile: In their Darkened
and Chris Cornell proves : = Shrines

that he can. still belt it out - . Quite possibly the most brutal,
with the best of them. : . vee heavy, crushing and powerful
_ earn death metal CD to come out
this year. What else can | say
about this CD? Not for the faint
of heart, listen with caution for
the unititated.

David Syivian-Secrets of the Beehive
This is the best album of 1987 that | lis-
tened to in 2002, and boy is this a fan-
tastic CD. David Sylvian’s rich honey
brown voice is smooth and silky, rolling } i

melodies. This is a romantic piece of Tatu: 200km/h in the Wrong David Bowie: Heathen Immolation: Unholy Cult
love poetry set to music, it’s enchanting and a truly timeless Beau Jack Johnson: Brushfire Holly McNarland: Home is
piece, and doesn’t sound like it’s 15 years old at all. The Hives: Veni Vidi Vicious Fairytales where your feet are

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