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The Bronx aren’t from New York, and even though their debut full-length is distributed by metal-core label Ferret, they’re not the next Ozzfest buzz band, either. They are, however, a fine young maximum-punk outfit who, like Hot Snakes, get their ecstatic tempos from garage rock and their noisy edge from hardcore.

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Recently released census figures indicate that Detroit has lost some 26,219 citizens since 2000. However, that loss is more than made up for by all the bands around the world who have set themselves up as honorary Rock City residents.

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Independent hip-hop’s preeminent label goes Hollywood with this double-disc CD/DVD package centering on a documentary of its 2002 get-in-the-van Revenge of the Robots tour.

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Back in 1993, almost eight years after the Clash sputtered to a close, Rancid released their self-titled debut, which exhumed the Clash’s ultra-potent punk rock and shocked it back to life. Indestructible is Rancid’s sixth album, and by rights the band should sound like laughable necrophiles. But they don’t.

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“She wants it now / And she will not wait / But she’s too rough / And I’m too delicate,” warbled Morrissey on the Smiths’ “Pretty Girls Make Graves,” a song that trembles alongside “Girlfriend in a Coma,” “Some Girls Are Bigger Than Others,” and “Girl Afraid” in one of the more gynophobic oeuvres in rock history.

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Near the midpoint of this follow-up to Nappy Roots’ 2002 surprise hit, Watermelon, Chicken & Gritz, the group’s B. Stille drawls perhaps the most outlandish pop-music statement of 2003. Over a doleful, Geto Boyish funk stroll--scruffy snare, bluesy guitar, piano, flute--he proclaims:“Even when I’m rich / I’ma pretend to be poor.”