The Dashboard Confessional leader answers the charges:

If you found yourself driven to New York's Bowery Ballroom on Friday night solely by the vaguely Messianic reaction to San Francisco duo Girls' debut, Album, then you could be forgiven if, for much of the evening, you wondered whether you were even in the right building.

Music supervisor for hit TV shows including Gossip Girl, Grey's Anatomy, and Mad Men -- along with the Twilight movie series -- Alexandra Patsavas has quietly made herself one of the most influential figures in the industry, helping to break new bands and shape the aesthetics of popular drama.

Britney Spears isn't meant to be taken so literally. Like, when she coos "Hit Me Baby…One More Time," she doesn't really want you to reel off and clock her.

On paper, flame-haired 23-year-old Brit Florence Welch seems just one of a dozen would-be divas to wash up on our shores this year. Fortunately for her, and for all of us, Welch’s charms are not best experienced on paper. Rather, they are best experienced in the cozyish 550-capacity Bowery Ballroom on Manhattan’s Lower East Side on a grimly rainy Tuesday in October.

Just over a year ago, we predicted New York’s Lissy Trullie would be one of 2009’s breakout stars. It’s nice to be right sometimes.