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41. Critics' Picks

    Henry Rollins

    8 p.m. Saturday, October 20. The Pageant, 6161 Delmar Boulevard.

    By Jaime Lees

    Published: October 17, 2007

    Henry Rollins started as the howling, robust frontman of legendary punk band Black Flag. Those who are familiar with Rollins' vitality and exuberance won't be disappointed in...

42. Ask a Mexican

    More Than a Beck Album

    The Mexican gets to the root (word) of güero.

    By Gustavo Arellano

    Published: October 17, 2007

    Dear Mexican: What is it with the Mexican hang-up on body parts? When General Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna was struck by a cannonball at the knee in one of his 8,000 wars, his...

43. Critics' Picks

    Sea Wolf/Nada Surf

    8 p.m. Monday, October 22. The Gargoyle, on the campus of Washington University at Forsyth and Skinker boulevards.

    By Christian Schaeffer

    Published: October 17, 2007

    You would be forgiven for hating Sea Wolf based solely on its name: The great "wolf"-based band-name craze imploded in 2005, and the "sea" appellation seems tailor-made to...

44. Critics' Picks

    Darren Jessee

    9 p.m. Monday, October 22. Off Broadway, 3509 Lemp Avenue.

    By Shae Moseley

    Published: October 17, 2007

    Darren Jessee spent most of the 1990s as drummer for Ben Folds Five. But his contributions to that band always went beyond simply pounding out a rhythm for Folds' songs. Not...

45. Critics' Picks

    Charlotte Sometimes

    8 p.m. Wednesday, October 24. The Pageant, 6161 Delmar Boulevard.

    By D.X. Ferris

    Published: October 17, 2007

    Charlotte Sometimes actually copped her name from a British kids' book about time travel, not the Cure song. But the Cure is a telling reference: The NYC songwriter and her...

46. Rotations

    Bruce Springsteen

    Magic (Columbia)

    By Roy Kasten

    Published: October 17, 2007

    In his worldwide scoop on Bruce Springsteen's fifteenth studio album, Jean Paul Sartre expressed his nausea as the absence of "the significance of things" and the dissolution...

47. Rotations

    Young Marble Giants

    Colossal Youth and Collected Works (Domino)

    By Dan Strachota

    Published: October 17, 2007

    In the liner notes to this two-CD reissue, music critic Simon Reynolds suggests that the Young Marble Giants debut, Colossal Youth, was one of only five perfect post-punk...

48. Rotations

    Ben Harper and the Innocent Criminals

    Lifeline (Virgin)

    By Michael Roberts

    Published: October 17, 2007

    Given the advances in digital studio equipment, cutting an album in analog can be both more difficult and more expensive. Ben Harper preferred the old-school experience,...

49. Homespun

    Nato Caliph

    Cipher Inside (F5 Records)

    By Christian Schaeffer

    Published: October 17, 2007

    homespun Cipher Inside takes backpacker hip-hop to its logical conclusion: Beginning with "Physics 720" and moving through lessons in "Applied Math 50" and "Political Science...