If a man's character can be judged by what he's got on his iPod then Protest the Hero bassist Arif Mirabdolbaghi is a card-carrying member of the counterculture, a self-avowed fan of things no one else has heard of and but a dabbler in the domain of heavy metal. Of the 20 tracks on his Random Shuffle list, only Black Sabbath is metal. Rush are kinda metal and we haven't got a clue what two-thirds of the rest of the songs are. Okay, we've heard of about half the artists, but we couldn't point them out in a police lineup. On a scale of 100, we give this Random Shuffle a 60 for sheer curiosity value, and a probable 40 for listenability -- unless you're an elitist, indie, artsy Spin reader with an ivy league education, in which case you've probably heard all this stuff on NPR and you'd give the list a strong 90. But if that's the case, what are you doing here? Click "more" to see the full list and watch a video from one of the artists: Read more...