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You don't often hear "habeas corpus" in a pop song, but There's Me and There's You is no ordinary album. To express his outrage at the Bush administration and the state of the world in general, house-music producer Matthew Herbert mobilizes an actual big band -- the kind that flourished before World War II -- and enlists jazz diva Eska Mtungwazi to lead the charge.

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Death From Above 1979 is DOA, and former bassist-synth dude Jesse F. Keeler (now of MSTRKRFT) apparently got custody of the dance-punk spazzitude, while drummer-singer Sebastien Grainger has embraced the devil-horned machismo.

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While modern heshers await the next album from Mastodon, Flesh serves as brutal palate cleanser.

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Erik "Everlast" Schrody's transformation into a guitar-strumming folkie on 1998's Whitey Ford Sings the Blues was a savvy career move, both artistically and commercially. After all, how many early-'90s white rappers are still working?

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This Seattle indie-punk trio's Wu-Tang-referencing third album is sinister and melodramatic enough to evoke the collective spirit of comic-book bad guys. But their rock operatics more closely recall Hexxus, the smoggy antagonist of '90s eco-adventure FernGully.

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This New Zealand trio deconstructed both their native island's lo-fi pop and the notion of a classic-rock power trio more than 20 years ago, influencing both Sonic Youth and Wolf Eyes along the way. But while they were one of the first bands to deploy a laptop for noisemaking, they've yet to use such technology to make a more appealing recording.