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One of roots music’s slyest, smartest songwriters, Nashville-based Todd Snider isn’t up to the usual protest-song ploys on this eight-song mini album (which nonetheless protests plenty): "I did not do this to change your mind about anything," he explains in a spoken interlude.

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The first thing Lucinda Williams announces on her ninth studio album is that she found the love she was looking for standing behind an electric guitar. Twelve songs later, she signs off with a bit of wisdom from the late Australian philosopher Bon Scott: "It’s a long way to the top if you wanna rock and roll." The message?

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Mike Skinner caught loads of flak for turning his everybloke’s eye toward fame and fortune on 2006’s The Hardest Way to Make an Easy Living.

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Haven't Oasis already released a record called Dig Out Your Soul? No, wait -- it was "Go Let It out." or was it "the Meaning of Soul"?

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The fourth of November cannot come fast enough for TV on the Radio frontman Tunde Adebimpe. "This is beginning to feel like the long-winded blues of the never," Adebimpe wails near the end of his Brooklyn band's superb third album, his voice warped by rage and disbelief.

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These dudes from upstate New York are the black Eyed Peas of the Warped tour set. When Gym Class Heroes started making underground waves in the early '00s, they were true-school hip-hop defenders.