Rolling Stone-redaktionen i New York hører helst amerikansk musik. Her er deres 50 bedste i 2006:

1. Bob Dylan- Modern Times
2. Red Hot Chili Peppers – Stadium Arcadium
3. Sonic Youth – Rather Ripped
4. TV On the Radio – Return to Cookie Mountain
5. Ghostface Killah – Fishscale
6. Cat Power – The Greatest
7. Clipse – Hell Hath No Fury
8. Hold Steady – Boys and Girls in America
9. Mastodon – Blood Mountain
10. Tom Waits – Orphans: Brawlers, Bawlers and Bastards
11. John Mayer – Continuum
12. New York Dolls – One Day It Will Please Us to Remember Even This
13. Pearl Jam – Pearl Jam
14. Johnny Cash – American V: A Hundred Highways
15. Wolfmother – Wolfmother
16. Lupe Fiasco – Food & Liquor
17. Arctic Monkeys – Whatever People Say I Am, That’s What I’m Not
18. Roots – Game Theory
19. Dixie Chicks – Taking the Long Way
20. My Chemical Romance – Welcome to the Black Parade
21. Regina Spektor – Begin to Hope
22. Girl Talk – Night Ripper
23. Decemberists – Crane Wife
24. Beck – Information
25. Rhymefest – Blue Collar
26. Justin Timberlake – FutureSex/LoveSounds
27. Rapture – Pieces of the People We Love
28. Raconteurs – Broken Boy Soldiers
29. Bruce Springsteen – We Shall Overcome: Seeger Sessions
30. Cold War Kids – Robbers & Cowards
31. Birdman & Lil’ Wayne – Like Father, Like Son
32. Goldfrapp – Supernature
33. Todd Snider – Devil You Know
34. Thom Yorke – Eraser
35. John Legend – Once Again
36. Yo La Tengo – I Am Not Afraid of You and I Will Beat Your Ass
37. Fats Domino – Alive and Kickin’
38. Tool – 10,000 Days
39. Gothic Arches – Tragic Treasury: Songs from a Series of Unfortunate Events
40. Thunderbirds Are Now! – Make History
41. Sean Lennon – Friendly Fire
42. Lindsey Buckingham – Under the Skin
43. Various Artists – Tropicália: A Brazilian Revolution in Sound
44. Yeah Yeah Yeahs – Show Your Bones
45. Neko Case – Fox Confessor Brings the Flood
46. Willie Nelson – You Don’t Know Me: Songs of Cindy Walker
47. Brightblack Morning Light – Brightblack Morning Light
48. Lady Sovereign – Public Warning
49. Coup – Pick a Bigger Weapon
50. Phoenix – It’s Never Been Like That