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Timmy Thomas' 1972 beat-boxdriven hit "Why Can't We Live Together?" is a paradigm of how machine rhythms can make the human voice sound simultaneously stalwart and vulnerable. That quality has been milked by countless button-pushing acts, from New Order to the Neptunes.

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Two years ago Nellie McKay differentiated herself from other post–Norah Jones piano-playing ladies by rapping about the late Senator Paul Wellstone and eulogizing her dead kitty.

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Chantal Claret has a message for all the "little kids who love the rock'n'roll" out there, with their tattoos and effed-up haircuts: "You sure got the style, but you ain't got the soul." Funny thing is, said dilettantes have probably already sung along with those lyrics at a Morningwood show, posted an MP3 of the group's album opener, "Nü Rock," on their blogs, or

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Comes a time when every great band wonders if the world's stopped needing them. And there comes a time when every great man realizes how much he needs the world. For Julian Casablancas, these two moments have collided, like a meteorite crashing into an orphanage. "I'm tired of everyone I know / Of everyone I see / On the street and on TV," he sings on First Impressions of Earth.