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Time isn't kind to anyone, but it's been especially harsh to turn-of-the-century emo bands. Pour a little on the curb for the Get Up Kids, Sense Field, or anyone with a Hey Mercedes tattoo. For Jimmy Eat World, who've been dining out on their pop smash "The Middle" for six years, some bitterness is to be expected.

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Hey, 38-year-old androgynous vampire extraterrestrials get their hearts broken, too!

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Despite their well-publicized evangelical upbringing, I have no idea what religion Kings of Leon practice. I suspect they'd make lousy Buddhists -- because repetition, when it's feeding meditation, is supposed to lead to deep thoughts, and no matter how many times you repeat, "She said call me now, baby / And I'd come a-runnin'," it doesn't quite cut it.

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Lee Hazlewood's farewell to the recording industry is as oblique as his journey through it, which took him from producing Duane Eddy to saving Nancy Sinatra's career to making a series of ever-more-baffling and often genius solo albums in the '70s.

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Mute Math can seem hopelessly dorky -- they wear skinny ties, singer Paul Meany sounds like Sting, and they sued Warner Bros., charging that the label tried to market them as a Christian band and dump them on a Christian label.

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With his eighth album as Portastatic, Mac McCaughan still has his feet on the ground -- befitting what began as a subdued side project to his now-shuttered main band Superchunk.