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If you don’t think pop stardom is a total drag, well then, you must not be very famous. Just ask Britney or Lindsay, Michael or Madonna. Now even Mike Skinner has lent his 'umble mumble to this all-star chorus of lamentation.

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Stuart Murdoch knows from adolescent identity crisis. As the leader of Scottish folk-pop bookworms Belle and Sebastian, he's lisped the prematurely jaded journal jottings of the precocious characters in his songs for close to a decade. If at times he's overindulged the brats, well, how better to reveal the insecurities behind their kinky, highfalutin boasts?

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Chantal Claret has a message for all the "little kids who love the rock'n'roll" out there, with their tattoos and effed-up haircuts: "You sure got the style, but you ain't got the soul." Funny thing is, said dilettantes have probably already sung along with those lyrics at a Morningwood show, posted an MP3 of the group's album opener, "Nü Rock," on their blogs, or

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Rock siblings aren't like the rest of us. Their harmonies can blend almost incestuously, as though locking away family mysteries in a mesh of notes. Though Matt Friedberger mostly leaves the singing to his sister, Eleanor, the duo codes its art pop in a private language only the genetically linked share.

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If expectations are just disappointments waiting to happen, DangerDoom is a white-hot flame of anticipation fated to sizzle your rap-lovin' heart to a bitter char. MF Doom is the underground's masked mic surrealist; Danger Mouse is the creator of the illicit Jay-Z/Beatles mastersplice, The Grey Album.

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Boring old black-white miscegenation is so 20th century -- to really freak out tight-ass bigots in the '00s, somebody's gotta take the multiethnic gene-pool reconstruction worldwide. Mustachioed Gogol Bordello frontman Eugene Hutz is just the mutt to do it, and your daughter could one day be the honey he does it with.