No doubt about it, this week belonged to newly-minted President-Elect Barack Obama. But that doesn't mean the music world lay dormant: Fall Out Boy, Smashing Pumpkins, and the Decemberists all kicked off their respective U.S. tours, while the Killers treated fans to new tracks in London.

"We're not ready," Leona Naess and Ryan Adams harmonize. "We're not even close." It's one of those powerful lines that a saddened lover might post as a Facebook status update, or as an AIM away message.