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Did 1950s musique concréte composers ever imagine their rarified tape-art would become the next century's pop fodder?

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One hundred percent of this wrecking crew -- bassist/screamer Jared Warren (ex-Karp and Tight Bros From Way Back When) and drummer Coady Willis (ex-Murder City Devils) -- are currently serving time in the Melvins, a band that never met a sideman it couldn't drive crazy, then fire.

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Kaiser Chiefs predicted a riot on their 2005 debut, but the perky Englishmen only had enough steam to carry the album halfway to brilliance. Now, with a heightened sense of feistiness and discontent -- plus consistently improved songwriting -- album No. 2 feels more substantial, especially in its most dissatisfied moments.

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When bands make albums on the road, the momentum often infuses the results with a special kind of energy and spontaneity. Or not. A pickup band came to the aid of Mark E. Smith and his keyboardist/wife, Eleni Poulou, for the Fall's 26th studio album, record in Los Angeles after the other members bailed four gigs into their summer '06 U.S. tour.

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Apparently the "irony is a dead scene" directive never reached Charlie Salas-Humara: As Panther, he postures and falsettos over unsophisticated beats and bloops, with brief moments of sincerity giving way to flippant weirdness or cacophony.

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It's tempting to dismiss this Nashville singer/songwriter as a standard-issue folkie, but on her debut album, a more intriguing picture emerges, as her wispy acoustic guitar and vocal melodies quietly drift into breezy experimentalism.