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Most punks who try to pick up where the Pogues keeled over get the drunken madness right, but not the romance. Not so with the Tossers, a seven-piece band from Chicago's Irish Southside who once backed up Pogue Spider Stacy.

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Well, it finally happened. After years of being groomed for mainstream stardom, Bert McCracken, the onetime king of screamo, has had it with the shallow world of music-biz phonies.

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This Portland band's debut should satisfy those flummoxed and/or disappointed by Clap Your Hands Say Yeah's sophomore slumper. Both groups capture early R.E.M.'s breezy jangle and give it a twisted sideways glance, but the Shaky Hands reduce the bark and play up the loose-limbed folk vibe, refusing to get bogged down in murky layers or sonic experiments.

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Massachusetts thrash-metal purists Shadows Fall jumped to a major label around the same time as their peers in Mastodon and Lamb of God, and like those bands, they're doing it without apparent compromise.

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Try to imagine a better job description than the Detroit Cobras': The girl-girl duo spit-shine and garage-rock unknown oldies, but mightily transcend cover-band status.

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Hybrid genre alert: If Raleigh, North Carolina's the Rosebuds have their way, "synth-jangle" will soon light up college-radio dials everywhere. Their third album threads seductive, chiming melodies through robotic, New Order-style rhythms.