Music

Mumps and the Hypstrz respectively raise the overdue question: Who invented punk, Freddie Mercury or Fonzie? Katrina survivor Lil Wayne, meanwhile, is the rapper of the decade, and maybe a blues singer too. And Begegnungen II is misspelled on its own front cover.

BLACK LIPSLet It Bloom (In the Red low-fidelity semi- psychedelic garage punk album)

THE COFFIN LIDS'Round Midnight (Bomp! garage rock album)
Stream "Frankenstein"
Stream "Teenage Shakedown" (Windows Media)

JOEY DANIELSTake Me Off the Market(Big3 Nashville pop- country album)
Stream "I'll Be Your Whiskey" (Windows Media)
Stream "Miracle" (Windows Media)

ENO MOEBIUS ROEDELIUSAfter The Heat (Water '70s post-Kraut-rock ambient proto-techno reissue)
Stream "Foreign Affairs"
Stream "Light Arms" (Windows Media)

ENO MOEBIUS ROEDELIUS PLANKBegegnungen (Water '70s-'80s post-Kraut-rock ambient proto-techno reissue)
Stream "Two Oldtimers"
Stream "Dem Wanderer" (Windows Media)

ENO MOEBIUS ROEDELIUS PLANKBegegnungen II (Water '70s-'80s post-Kraut-rock ambient proto-techno reissue)
Stream "Speed Display"
Stream "Broken Head" (Windows Media)

HOT CHIPComing On Strong (Astralwerks/EMI EMI "r&Bedroom" electropop album)
Stream "Playboy"
Stream "Hittin' Skittles" (Windows Media)

THE HYPSTRZLive at the Longhorne(Bomp! '70s garage punk reissue)
Stream "Let's Talk About Girls"
Stream "Tied to Hide" (Windows Media)

LIL WAYNETha Carter II (Cash Money/Universal Southern hip-hop album)
Stream "Hustler Musik" (Windows Media)
Stream "Best Rapper Alive" (Windows Media)

MUMPSHow I Saved the World (Sympathy for the Record Industry '70s proto-new-wave glam-punk reissue)
Stream "I Like To Be Clean"
Stream "Muscle Boys" (Windows Media)

ELIZA NEALSLiquorfoot (elizaneals.com country-soul album)
Stream "Selections" (Windows Media)

YING YANG TWINSU.S.A. Still United (TVT crunk outtakes and remixes album and DVD)
Stream "Git It"
Stream "4 Oz." (Windows Media)