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In England this Liverpool fivesome are stars with five No. 1 hits and a Mercury Prize nomination. In this country, the Zutons are simply a marginally known, eclectic alt-pop band with some of the most sharply etched songs around. Their second album combines garage boogie, buoyant harmony, and honking sax with gloomier themes: hangovers, heartache, and hangovers.

By: Nick Catucci

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Wigga. Derived from the nation's naughtiest word, the term was meant to tell whities to mind their cultural boundaries. Of course, that never stopped '90s suburban kids from exposing their boxer shorts as though they were glad to have an epithet of their own. Rap rock's crude appropriation of hip-hop's beats, rhymes, and baggy pants was never meant to make it this far into the new millennium.

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"Sometimes, there's a man -- well, he's the man for his time and place.

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Once upon a time, back when the Kingdom of the East was at war with the Kingdom of the West, Lil' Kim, Princess of Brooklyn, proclaimed herself Queen Bitch. Hard Core, her 1996 debut, updated Roxanne Shanté's scabrous The Bitch Is Back for a hip-hop community groping toward a new synthesis of grime and glamour.