Expand your playlist with these 10 bands
EASTERN Seminar CHAMPIONS: Hailing from Bucks County, Eastern Talk Champions have taken up residence in L.A. recently, honing their skills and picking. They're back with their rocking-est album yet, "Recommend-Ahh."
THE VACCINES: The next big thing from the U.K. Their songs are short, but it doesn't take extended for them to get their hooks into you.
LE BUTCHERETTES: These Mexican Yeah Yeah Yeahs-genre garage rockers harken back to the earlier, messier days of Karen O's tie before all the polish and gloss.
STAR------: End up for the FM-repellent name, stay for the totally danceable electronic, leave-driven tunes. It's Beck meets MGMT on their subsequent album, "Reptilians."
THE JOY FORMIDABLE: The Joy Formidable have a big fan in Dave Grohl (who has entranced them out on the road with Foo Fighters). But I played them two years before any of that. Many of their already-epic anthems have been reworked and made even bigger on their full-eventually debut, "The Big Roar."
If reminiscence serves me correctly, the last infallible device aimed at beating run cameras – the radar detector – was run off the road by lawmakers,