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Here’s to the artisanal-cheese-makers, the carpenters, the cobblers, the power-pop songwriters--dedicated craftsmen who still make high-quality products for an ever-shrinking clientele. Case in point: Fountains of Wayne.

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Thanks to recent advances in technology, irony, and unemployment, that scrawny English major with the laptop sitting behind you in the coffeehouse may be working on a hot breakbeat, not the Great American Novel (or his résumé).

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That Saves the Day poster on your wall may fade, but the importance of being earnest doesn’t. Even grown-ups--those of us over the age of, say, 21--need their heartstrings plucked now and again, and, ladies and gentlemen of the jukebox jury, sometimes Wilco just ain’t gonna cut it.

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"I ain't got nothing to be scared of," sings Damon Albarn on Blur's seventh album, and he means it as both an opening gambit and a mission statement. Since his breakup with Elastica's Justine Frischmann in 1998, Albarn has discovered hip-hop, monkeyed with Gorillaz, gone native in Mali, and raged against the war machine.