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Oneida are into full-immersion music, with complete devotion to epic jams that mix digital blips, guitar frenzy, and overblown amp buzz until you can’t tell the difference. This triple CD (yes, the length of a Grateful Dead live album) is only part two of a three-part series called “Thank You Parents” (presumably for teaching them that patience is a virtue).

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At first, hearing Steve Albini's production of Jarvis Cocker's excellent new album is like finding out that your beloved aunt, the one who introduced you to Fellini and Wilde, had a fling with your favorite science teacher, the one who showed you how to explode sulfur in a tub of water. You love them both for completely different reasons and kind of wish they had never crossed paths.

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The center of this Garden State trio, diminutive Marissa Paternoster is a Punky Van Halen in thrift-store coats who rips through spiky guitar solos unlike anybody else in indie-dom, delivering postcollege angst in an intimidating quaver-to-throat-ripping howl.

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Isis' last few albums -- which weaved between heavy ambience and ambient heft, usually erring on the side of spaciness -- made the Los Angeles–based band absurdly influential post-metal icons. But here, they temper the sun-staring and remember to thrash now and then for the brainy geeks who have been down since day one.

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This hybrid group -- two American indie vets and two Kenyan benga musicians -- twist rock and African riffs into drum-head-tight grooves on their third album, a feast for multiethnic guitar nerds but also a lively mix that anyone can dance to.

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Pop music doesn't allow for many third bites at the apple, but here's Stephen Patrick Morrissey chomping away. It's the Dr. Dre career path: Both led epoch-defining groups, both sustained smart, healthy solo careers that collapsed with a thud in the mid-'90s, and both came roaring back to life. We look forward to a possible collabo on Detox.