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139)Charlie Wilson/Uncle Charlie: Grown-assed make-out music gets an 808s-and-hard-ons new-school makeover better than Ron Isley’s.=6.5

138: Zion-I/The Take Over: Oakland also-rans toy with screw, hyphy, granola, club, Rick Rubin and whatever else gets a nerd party started.=6

137: Lamb Of God/Wrath: The one-time blast-and-roar great-white-hope cleans up their sound just enough to hear how corny their lyrics are.=4

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136)Pontiak/Maker: Droll dub-metal from the label that brought you TransChamps.=3

135)Children/Hard Times Hanging At The End Of The World: Don’t trust metalheads too popular to stay inside and build their chops.=2

134) Lady Sovereign/Jigsaw: All those tantrums and you honestly have nothing to say?=2.5

133)Crippled Black Phoenix/200 Tons Of Bad Luck: Neurosis’s Enemy Of The Sun for glass-half-full types.=7

132)Polly Scattergood/Polly Scattergood: Like CocoRosie graduating from Starbucks-indie charm school.=2

131)K’Naan/Troubadour: Ecleftic Somalian conscious rapper more dedicated to head-knocking beats than, say, K-Os.=7