WHO: Recently signed to Dreamworks, this emo foursome, led by acid-tongued Jesse Lacey, has springboarded from an opening slot on the last Dashboard Confessional tour into the bruised hearts of America’s youth.

 

WHO: Seattle screamo quintet led by mic-twirling Roger Daltrey doppelgänger Zachary Davidson.

By: Tim Kenneally

Distillers frontwoman Brody Armstrong has a punk-rock-luminary husband, a history of drug abuse, and a honey-on-gravel rasp that's eerily reminiscent of a certain grunge diva. Still, any comparisons to Ms. Love are curtly dismissed. "Courtney who?" the Australia-bred Los Angeles resident scoffs. "A lot of artists have inspired me: Wendy O. Williams, Poly Styrene, definitely Debbie Harry, and Siouxsie Sioux."

By: Tim Kenneally

WHO: Post-hardcore quintet from Amityville, New York.