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Era Vulgaris represents Queens of the Stone Age's most hallucinatory album since 2000's Rated R.

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Megadeth have never adapted their razor-edged shredding to straight-up arena rock as well as Metallica, and even their most ferocious '80s efforts felt a little unresolved. The band has always had a general political awareness, but United Abominations is Dave Mustaine's serious stab at protest rock, and the results are similarly mixed.

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Twisted Black might be the most legit coke rapper ever -- he was recently convicted in federal court of conspiracy to distribute crack. But he's not just a rap sheet; he's also a storyteller whose lyrics recall Proust's madeleines (a piece of jewelry, the sound of a drug dealer's shoes when he runs from the cops) as much as Biggie's hustler tales.

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When you rip White Hats to your iTunes, the genre comes up as "electronica," but that's reductionist.

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Rugged NBA star Artest was raised in Queensbridge, the same New York housing project that produced Nas and Mobb Deep, so perhaps he feels it's his birthright to MC. Sadly, his beats come straight from the Fisher-Price My First Rap Album Playset, with generic New York hardcore ("Nasty North"), by-the-numbers crunk ("Working the Pole"), and so on.