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AFI

Decemberunderground | Interscope
AFI's high-gloss, higher-energy  Decemberunderground is like a Rocky Horror Picture Show for screamo kids. AFI's "Kill Caustic"  (Windows Media Player)
By MIKAEL WOOD  |  June 13, 2006

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Tilly and the Wall

Bottoms of Barrels | Team Love
The tap dancing conceit makes perfect sense in Tilly’s boisterous, lovedrunk sound, which skirts indie-folk tedium through sheer energy.
By MIKAEL WOOD  |  June 06, 2006

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Tapes 'n Tapes

The Loon | Ibid
Like Stephen Malkmus and his merry men, these guys regard noise and distortion and weird song structures as their birthright.
By MIKAEL WOOD  |  May 31, 2006

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Sun Kil Moon

Tiny Cities | Caldo Verde
Mark Kozelek is  the rare performer in whose hands material by Kiss and John Denver sounds exactly the same.
By MIKAEL WOOD  |  May 25, 2006

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Double dosed

Red Hot Chili Peppers’ two-disc epic  
May has been a big month for mainstream rock, with high-profile releases by Pearl Jam, Tool, and Jack White’s Raconteurs racking up blockbuster sales and claiming pop-cultural real estate reserved more often these days for Kevlar-clad rappers.
By MIKAEL WOOD  |  May 28, 2006

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Elefant

Black Magic Show  | Kemado/Hollywood
These New York dance-rock dudes almost certainly formed a band to seduce babes.
By MIKAEL WOOD  |  May 17, 2006

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Gomez

How We Operate | ATO
“This is what I use to make myself more attractive to girls,” Gomez singer Tom Gray joked from the stage at New York’s Hiro Ballroom a few weeks ago, fingering a plastic melodica.
By MIKAEL WOOD  |  May 08, 2006

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Emo corps?

Taking Back Sunday turn up the volume
The familiar sounds of Nirvana’s Nevermind are wafting out over the PA inside Fuse’s midtown-Manhattan studio, but few of the fresh-faced kids gathered on this April afternoon for a taping of the music-video network’s 7th Avenue Drop seem to recognize the songs.
By MIKAEL WOOD  |  May 05, 2006

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Amandine

This Is Where Our Hearts Collide | FatCat
Amandine are four Swedish guys who used to call themselves Wichita Lineman after the Glen Campbell tune.
By MIKAEL WOOD  |  April 24, 2006

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American idols

Mush-rock masters Train and the Goo Goo Dolls
If you caught American Idol a few Tuesdays ago, you’d have seen what historians years from now will refer to as the passing of the mush-rock torch.
By MIKAEL WOOD  |  April 14, 2006

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Wooden Wand & The Vanishing Voice

Gipsy Freedom | 5RC
This sprawling New York–based freak-folk collective, led by James Toth (who’s recorded solo as Wooden Wand, minus the Vanishing Voice), play some of the scene’s loosest, least crossover-concerned music.
By MIKAEL WOOD  |  April 14, 2006

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The Sounds

DYING TO SAY THIS TO YOU | Scratchie/New Line
The lanky fashion plates in this likable Swedish combo like to play up their punk pedigree in publicity photos.
By MIKAEL WOOD  |  April 10, 2006

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Yeah Yeah Yeahs

Show Your Bones | Interscope
The dark, sprawling Bones reveals that they have bigger plans for their music than volume and speed.
By MIKAEL WOOD  |  April 05, 2006

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Drum talk

Wilco’s Glenn Kotche and Loose Fur
Glenn Kotche is not under the illusion that solo percussion albums have a built-in audience. So who might buy his new Mobile (Nonesuch)?
By MIKAEL WOOD  |  March 28, 2006

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Jamie Cullum

CATCHING TALES | Verve Forecast
A young English jazz-pop crooner who’s intent on proving how much hipper he is than Norah Jones, Jamie Cullum updates his crisp throwback sound on the follow-up to his more conservative American debut, 2004’s Twentysomething.
By MIKAEL WOOD  |  March 27, 2006

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Mates of State

Bring It Back | Barsuk
In 2001, the two members of this popular Connecticut combo got married (and last year they had a daughter), forming a family that their music suggests will endure.
By MIKAEL WOOD  |  March 23, 2006

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Stellastarr*

HARMONIES FOR THE HAUNTED | RCA
This New York foursome play darkly dreamy rock that strives to speak for its generation the same way Simple Minds’ “Don’t You (Forget About Me)” reflected the hopes and the heartache of the Breakfast Club crowd.
By MIKAEL WOOD  |  March 15, 2006

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Isobel Campbell & Mark Lanegan

BALLAD OF THE BROKEN SEAS | V2
There’s always been a threat of Hello Kitty overkill in music by former Belle and Sebastian chanteuse Isobel Campbell — that’s the price of a voice as light and wispy as Campbell’s, and of material so consciously designed to evoke the lost innocence of childhood.
By MIKAEL WOOD  |  March 06, 2006

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The M's

FUTURE WOMEN | Polyvinyl
Like their current tour mates Of Montreal, this Chicago quartet know how to keep ’60s-inspired guitar pop interesting: you throw in as many different sonic signifiers as you can.
By MIKAEL WOOD  |  March 02, 2006

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Solo shots

Sia, Mozez, and Tina Dico minus Zero 7
Since neither Henry Binns nor Sam Hardaker is a singer anyone cares much to hear, the duo’s ascent has also produced a small fleet of Zero 7–branded vocalists.
By MIKAEL WOOD  |  March 02, 2006
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