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At 45, Lips frontman Wayne Coyne has seen as much ugliness as anybody of his generation. Yet alt rock’s Captain Kangaroo keeps it cheerily surreal, a feat more impressive for how his musical positivity seems -- like some sci-fi monster -- to feed off of horror.

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Besides having the sexiest snaggletooth in indie rock, Neko Case may be the scene's hardest-working gal. She records and tours with Canuck ultrapoppers the New Pornographers; writes, records, and tours as a solo artist; and also finds time for the occasional side project (like her currently dormant duo with Carolyn Mark, the Corn Sisters).

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By: Will Hermes

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In the performance film Speaking for Trees, Chan Marshall walks barefoot into a sun-spangled field, jacks in her electric guitar, and for the next two hours makes like she's digging a hole in her brain's backyard.

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Timmy Thomas' 1972 beat-boxdriven hit "Why Can't We Live Together?" is a paradigm of how machine rhythms can make the human voice sound simultaneously stalwart and vulnerable. That quality has been milked by countless button-pushing acts, from New Order to the Neptunes.

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In the postboom electronica scene, there are two sorts of DJs: the purists who preach to the converted in a bleep-world bubble (German passports are often a tip-off); and the kind of people who, artistically speaking, want hos in every area code -- happy to wallow through all sorts of flotsam to find the groove, used or new, that'll blow the largest number of minds.