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Formerly the Bees (the Nashville quartet that prompted a U.K. group to change its name to A Band of Bees), the Silver Seas specialize in familiar '70s-style soft rock that combines the hazy harmonies of the Beach Boys with Jackson Browne's running-on- empty rhythmic momentum.

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Having refined their increasingly impressive instrumental chops, stoner humor, and parroting skills into sophisticated musical satire, New Hope, Pennsylvania's Gene and Dean Ween revert to some of the silliest parodies and jokes of their 20-year career.

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French pop rockers tend to have an effortless melodic gift, and that's the case with Xavier Boyer, leader of Parisian group Tahiti 80.

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Though still youthfully rabid at three albums old, these Houston miscreants easily could've sprung from the late-'80s pigfuck scene (Killdozer, Scratch Acid, Big Black). Thankfully, their tunes -- lumbering, treble-scarred shit-fits that are equal parts the Birthday Party and Fun House-era Stooges -- pack greater oomph than nostalgia acts usually manage.

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When Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo and Thomas Bangalter dropped their substandard Human After All three years ago, Daft Punk seemed destined to join the ranks of '90s electronic acts whose sales shrank with the dot-com bust.

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When Daft Punk's alien ghetto blast "Da Funk" touched down at a Texas rave in the late '90s, there wasn't an X Files-level conspiracy panic, but the ground was irreparably shaken for drummer/ keyboardist/producer Thomas Turner.