Right about now is the time when us wags at MAGNET (and no doubt some wags at other music magazines) are “busy” making lists of our top albums of 2001. Then we run out of bands to make lists from, and we make up bands. So we can make more lists. Here’s the MAGNET staff’s top 10 fake band names of 2001: 10. Big Stink And The Odor Neutralizers 9. Falcon Sanctuary 8. ??? (pronounced “huh-what-who”) 7. (tie) Linkin Park 7. (tie) Enema (pronounced “e-NEE-ma”) 5. The Ounces Of Prevention (who bill themselves as “the world’s most cautious rock band”) 4. Pizza The Hut (album title: Blood On The Snacks) 3. The Monistat Seven 2. The Diff’rent Strokes (real, but we claim it as our own) 1. Kid Mudd Alright, some of ‘em aren’t that good. Think you can do better, hotshot? Email us your best fake band name, and the one that tickles us most will win its creator a MAGNET T-shirt! Please only email us once, and with only one fake band name. If you don’t have a fake band name in mind, email us your real band name; there’s a pretty fair chance it’s unintentionally hilarious: magnet@magnetmagazine.com **** INSIDE MAGNET #52 - IN STORES AND MAILBOXES NEXT WEEK! COVER STORY - SPIRITUALIZED MAGNET’s Jonathan Valania follows Jason Pierce around Ireland for a while during a recent Spiritualized tour, floating questions to the man with the lazer-guided melodies. For you, the reader, he brings back an epic cover story about love, death, drugs, god and war. (There’s some stuff about Spiritualized in there, too.) For us, the MAGNET staff, he brings back a hefty tab from a Belfast pub and some stolen pint glasses that reek of days-old Guinness. Um, thanks. SPECIAL SECTION - 2001: THE YEAR IN MUSIC Our annual roundup (which happens every year) determines once and for all who is the supreme and all-powerful ruler of music in 2001: Bob Dylan or the Strokes. Ha ha, just kidding. It’s the White Stripes. Or maybe it’s the New Pornographers, or maybe it was just a fantastic year for music and we had to write about the artists and albums we thought were the best, because that’s what we do. Find out what our top 20 albums of the year are, and find out about 10 beneath-the-radar albums you haven’t found out about before. FEATURES MAGNET publishes a Ryan Adams profile in which it doesn’t seem like we’re humping his leg and floating record-review stars down a raging river of questionably gross critical slobber. I mean, Whiskeytown was cool and all, but it was no Clash or Talking Heads (this issue also has stories on Joe Strummer and David Byrne). Plus features on Sparklehorse, Beachwood Sparks, Beulah, Oneida, Four Tet, Appleseed Cast and Mushroom. And reviews, reviews, reviews. **** MAGNETMAGAZINE.COM (that’s our Web site, which can be found on the Internet at http://www.magnetmagazine.com) now has an online store! And since you all are the only people we’re telling this to, it really puts the “secret” into Secret Santa, dontcha think? Just press some buttons on your computer and here’s what you can get: *A MAGNET subscription - it’s the gift that gives all year long! *MAGNET back issues - it’s the gift from yesterday ... today! *MAGNET T-shirts - it’s the gift that comes in all sizes! Back by popular demand, our shirts have a new design in some pretty cool colors. Along with some shoes, these shirts are guaranteed to get you some dice. (What does that mean, anyway?) Can’t get enough Joe Strummer? Read the entire transcription of Fred Mills’ Q&A with the man online. Pack a lunch - it’s a long one. Also on the site, Matthew Fritch talks to Queens Of The Stone Age’s Josh Homme and Mark Lanegan about the psych/rock freakout known as the Desert Sessions. And as always, you’ll find music news, record reviews, live reviews, exclusive photos of your (OK, our) favorite musicians and Web-only archives of classic stories from sold-out issues.