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Common has always had something of the faux-hemian about him. Once a plainspoken Chicago B-boy with an allegiance to hip-hop as it was, Common relocated to Brooklyn a few years back to see what hip-hop might become. Before long, he was rocking a bold granola-pimp wardrobe and canoodling with neosoul heroine Erykah Badu.

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DJ Hell's foppish Flock of Seagulls coif screams "fashion casualty," but his new mix CD is more than a trendoid cheat sheet. Disc 1 gives electroclash a supple house makeover, segueing tracks by Metro Area and the Juan Maclean into computer funk from Detroit's Recloose and Chicago house auteur Derrick L. Carter.

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In the wake of September 11, System of a Down became the rock band most willing to articulate the unstable--sorry, I just can't do it. Let's go ahead and admit that the best thing about this avowedly (and admirably) political band is Serj Tankian's willingness to make a complete ass of himself.

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In interviews, when asked which songwriters he most reveres, Dashboard Confessional's Chris Carrabba almost always mentions Brian Wilson of the Beach Boys. Weird, huh?

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Ted Leo is from Jungleland. It's a place where populism and smarts are not mutually exclusive, where soul and rock mingle. And where guys like John Fogerty, Joe Strummer, Minutemen's D. Boon, and, above all, Bruce Springsteen make sense of a jumbled world by telling their stories--tales of everyday heroism and tragedy--with so much honest humor you realize that they're your stories, too.