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Staff

This week: Abe Vigoda furthers L.A. punk's second coming, Patti Smith and Kevin Shields collaborate, and Beck shifts styles once again (this time it's '60s psychedelia).    

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Abe Vigoda: Skeleton

Albert Hammond, Jr.: ¿Como Te Llama? (Red Ink)

Architecture in Helsinki: Like It or Not EP (Polyvinyl)

Bad Religion: New Maps of Hell [Deluxe Version] (Epitaph/Ada)

The Baseball Project: Volume 1: Frozen Ropes and Dying Quails (Yep Roc)

Beck: Modern Guilt (Interscope)

Black Ghosts: Black Ghosts Cam'ron: Harlem's Finest (Amalgam Digital)

The Capstan Shafts: Fixation Protocols (Rainbow Quartz)

Chromeo: Fancy Footwork [Deluxe Edition] (Vice)

The Coke Dares: Feelin' Up (S.A.)

The Dutchess & The Duke: She's the Dutchess, He's the Duke (Hardly Art)

F**k the Facts: Disgorge Mexico (Relapse)

Fred Everything: Lost Together (Om)

The Futureheads: Beginning of the Twist (Alba)

The Gits: Best of the Gits (Adrenaline)

H2O: CBGB OMFUG Masters: Live 8/19/02, The Bowery Colle

Hero Destroyed: Hero Destroyed (Relapse)

Joseph Arthur: Foreign Girls (Lonely Astronaut)

Killer Mike: I Pledge Allegiance to the Grind, Vol. 2 (SMC Recordings)

Leila: Blood, Looms and Blooms (Warp)

Little Jackie: Stoop (S-curve)

Matt Keating: Quixotic (Mega Force)

MDM: Modern Digital Militia Me First and the Gimme Gimmes: Have Another Ball! (Fat Wreck Chords)

Melvins: Nude with Boots (Ipecac)

Midnight Juggernauts: Dystopia [Limited Edition] (EMD Int'l)

Noisia: Fabriclive 40 (Fabric) Nyoil: Hood Treason (Babygrande)

Paper Route: Are We All Forgotten Parts & Labor: Escapers 2: Grind Pop (Ace Fu)

Patti Smith/Kevin Shields: Coral Sea

Ratatat: LP3 (XL)

Ringo Starr: Ringo Starr and the All Starr's 2006 (Koch)

Saul Williams: Inevitable Rise and Liberation of Niggy Tardust (Fader Label)

Seth Kauffman: Research (Park the Van)

Smoking Popes: Stay Down (Curb Appeal)

Son, Ambulance: Someone Else's Deja Vu (Saddle Creek)

Steve Lawler: Viva Toronto (Ultra)

Street Dogs: State of Grace (Hellcat)

Sunny Day Sets Fire: Summer Palace Totimoshi: Milagrosa (Volcom)

Tu Fawning: Secession (Polyvinyl) Tystnaden: In Our Eye (Renaissance)

Willie Nelson/Wynton Marsalis: Two Men with the Blues (Blue Note)

Yaz: In Your Room (Mute U.S.)