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People only familiar with Sean Tillmann's role as sleazy, R&B singer Har Mar Superstar are in for a surprise. On an album more Ted Leo than R.

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The joke about this British gloom-rock quartet's 2006 debut, The Back Room, was that it sounded like an edited version of Interpol's Turn on the Bright Lights -- with all of that band's stylish post-punk signifiers, but none of the depth.

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Virginia's Pig Destroyer have been peddling high-octane, face-ripping, black-humor grindcore for a decade, and here they push their sound into an even fiercer realm. Guitarist Scott Hull's sweaty juggernaut riffs practically slice your flesh, but this is also a lyrics band, with J.R.

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Back when Meat Puppets were midwifing our indie world, the Arizona iconoclasts specialized in bonged-out cowpunk, stretching drawled melodies over 1-2-3-4 rhythms. They also tossed in fractured takes on Neil Young folk rock, and on Rise to Your Knees, that's the reunited Kirkwood brothers' forte.

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This Brooklyn-based quintet's punk-rock hoedown may sound like a kitschy joke.

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Here's a short list of things Spoon frontman Britt Daniel has written wrenching songs about: chloroform, a promotional cassette, a metal detector, a fitted shirt, his former A&R rep.