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21. Ask A Mexican

    Argh! Did Mexican pirates all walk the plank?

    By Gustavo Arellano

    Published: May 21, 2009

    Dear Mexican: My wife and I have an argument going about pirates. And since you are the source for all things Mexican, I'd thought I'd ask: While I know there were Spanish and...

22. Backbeat

    For Kevin Devine, the message is the medium

    By Michael Roberts

    Published: May 21, 2009

    On the 2002 album Circle Meets the Square, Kevin Devine included a song titled "Protest Singer," and the tag has stuck to him ever since, despite his lyrical confession that...

23. Rough Mixes

    Paramore's Hayley Williams finds fame a little freaky

    By Michael Roberts

    Published: May 21, 2009

    Paramore lead singer Hayley Williams needn't wonder if she's having an impact on her audience. Odds are good that every time she looks into the crowd at a concert, she'll see a...

24. Rough Mixes

    The newer generations' love of classic rock shows a lack of imagination

    By Ben Westhoff

    Published: May 21, 2009

    There's a disease spreading through our generation of twenty- and thirty-year-olds, a malady we inherited from our parents that's rendering us culturally stagnant. It's sapping...

25. Bar Back

    Wednesday nights are a trip at Owsley's

    By Jon Solomon

    Published: May 21, 2009

    When he opened Owsley's Golden Road (2151 Lawrence Street) last year, Jay Bianchi gave me a whirlwind tour of the spot, showing off the venue's multiple rooms and its massive...

26. Playlist

    Glyphic

    Everything Eventual
    Self-released

    By Michael Roberts

    Published: May 21, 2009

    Does saying that an album sounds as slick and professional as major-label fare constitute faint praise or the real kind? In the case of Glyphic, which hosts a Friday, May 22,...

27. Playlist

    The Alan Baird Project

    Tonight's the Night for Kings
    Self-released

    By Cory Casciato

    Published: May 21, 2009

    Listening to this EP makes me wonder if I'm not missing the gene for liking the kind of music you hear on the radio. I mean, I can identify that these melodies are appealing,...

28. Playlist

    The Omens

    Send Black Flowers
    Hipsville Records

    By Tom Murphy

    Published: May 21, 2009

    Although the Omens still show a strong Cynics influence here, there are marked departures from the formula. For one, this is probably the best-sounding work in which singer...

29. Playlist

    Stella Luce

    Zugenruhe
    Self-released

    By Jeff Otte

    Published: May 21, 2009

    Take Una Volta-era DeVotchKa, subtract Nick Urata's Morrissey croon and replace it with the sometimes-Ani-DiFranco, sometimes-Sarah-Vaughan vocals of Alana Rolfe, add a little...

30. Now Hear This

    Death Vessel

    Wednesday, May 27, hi-dive, 720-570-4500.

    By Tom Murphy

    Published: May 21, 2009

    Death Vessel is the brainchild of Brooklyn-based experimental folk artist Joel Thibodeau, the likes of whom we've heard from before. With a penchant for hushed electronic...

31. Now Hear This

    Doves

    Tuesday, May 26, Gothic Theatre, Englewood, 1-877-598-6659.

    By Michael Roberts

    Published: May 21, 2009

    "We've never wanted to go out and blow our own trumpet, really," Doves drummer/vocalist Andy Williams told Westword back in 2002. "We want the music to do the talking, and if...

32. Now Hear This

    The Decemberists

    Tuesday, May 26, Fillmore Auditorium, 1-877-598-6659.

    By Mark Keresman

    Published: May 21, 2009

    Decemberists main man Colin Meloy must have a dandy record collection. The influences throughout the band's latest opus, The Hazards of Love, are enough to make older prog...

33. Now Hear This

    Iwrestledabearonce

    Friday, May 22, Marquis Theater, 1-866-468-7621.

    By Tom Murphy

    Published: May 21, 2009

    Taking its name from something crazy Gary Busey said during his short-lived television series, I'm With Busey, Iwrestledabearonce doesn't bother fitting into a specific...

34. Critic's Choice

    The Dont's and Be Carefuls at the Meadowlark

    By Tom Murphy

    Published: May 21, 2009

    The latest in a long line of noteworthy bands from the unlikely creative breeding ground of Greeley, The Don'ts and Be Carefuls (due at the Meadowlark on Thursday, May 21) have...

35. Scratching the Surface

    Moderat at Beta

    By Cory Casciato

    Published: May 21, 2009

    Supergroups aren't just for bloated '70s rock stars. In the world of techno, Apparat and Modeselektor are both top-tier acts in their own right. Together they've joined forces...

36. Cafe

    Barbecue is international -- but at The Q Worldly Barbeque, North Carolina rules

    By Jason Sheehan

    Published: May 21, 2009

    Barbecue has a history and a long association with blues music and jazz music and roof-shakin', foot-stompin', Southern-tinted rock-and-roll music. It has a sweet Sunday side...

37. Second Helping

    Shead's BBQ & Fish Hut gets back in the swim

    Published: May 21, 2009

    I love recycling. Not the go-green, be-nice-to-the-planet kind, or the separating-your-trash kind. Those are all well and good, but what I really love is restaurant recycling....

38. Bite Me

    A cornucopia of good food at The Q Worldly Barbeque

    By Jason Sheehan

    Published: May 21, 2009

    I've gone back to The Q Worldly Barbeque a few times since my review meals — not for barbecue, but for the incredible corn fritters off the dessert menu. While I would...

39. Drink of the Week

    Rhubarb Martini at Olivea

    By Nancy Levine

    Published: May 21, 2009

    I couldn't wait for Olivea to open, because I'd always liked the feel of the space when it was Aix — cozy and intimate without being claustrophobic — and I thought...

40. Film Feature

    Terminator Salvation

    By Nick Pinkerton

    Published: May 21, 2009

    Both warning and advertisement, the Terminator films are technophobic teases, selling tickets by promising this decade's model of killing machine: the classic V8 1984...