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Meet Regina Spektor, the Strokes’ favorite Russian Jewish singer from the Bronx.

St. Elsewhere, Gnarls Barkley's debut, is an unclassifiable mix of psychedelic rock, hip-hop, and electronic music, all topped by Cee-Lo’s classic soul vocals.

And other brilliantly strange concoctions from the elusive pop genius Scott Walker.

When he got too big for Norway, pop star Sondre Lerche found the good life in Greenwich Village.

Hem plays pretty, country-inflected songs that are everything but cool.

East River Pipe is a one-man band that makes beautiful pop out of a decade and a half of very hard living.

Youthful music-lovers offer their takes on noteworthy recent albums.

Madonna and Kate Bush return to action with decidedly different notions of growing old gracefully.

Broken Social Scene is a seventeen-member �collective� that sounds like fourteen different bands. Luckily, none of them is Duran Duran.