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Bruce Springsteen, Adele, Bob Dylan, Mitski, Green Day, and more of the most essential tickets of the year.

This month's action-packed edition of our metal column features interviews with Disfear [above], Meshuggah, and Nachtmystium. You're welcome.

We asked a number of our favorite artists which records and artists they most enjoyed in 2006, and the answers ranged from the expected, such as TV on the Radio [above] and Joanna Newsom to some perhaps more surprising choices such as Hanoi Rocks and Justin Timberlake.

The second and final installment of Pitchfork's The Year in News hearkens back to that hazy, distant latter half of 2006.

Depeche Mode and Tool may have headlined the 2006 Coachella Valley Arts & Music Festival, but artists like Daft Punk, Jamie Lidell, and Gnarls Barkley stole the show.