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On his fourth album as the Good Life, prolific Cursive frontman Tim Kasher revels in lyrics about booze and heartbreak while delivering a string of teary folk-rock meditations. Sound familiar?

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What's a young band to do when their much-hyped, long-incubated first album fails to connect with the masses?

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At first glance, these eager Long Island newcomers seem like just another forgettable mainstream emo act, complete with Castro-style military caps and ridiculously overwrought song titles.  Thankfully, on this rousing debut, they break away from the Warped Tour pack wit heady prog-rock arrangements and weighty lyrics that aren't exclusively about singer Ryan Hunter's last evil girlfriend.

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Beginning with 2004's Our Gangs Dark Oath, these flamboyant Seattle goth punks have spent more time fretting about onstage makeup than actual songs, churning out two albums that borrowed heavily from early My Chemical Romance.

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Like Panic!

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This pop-punk quintet released a fan-polarizing 2006 album that included a contemporary jazz number and -- gasp! -- a cameo by a Dixie Chick, but here they return to the infectious anthems that made them Warped Tour headliners.