Artist	Song
The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus	Face Down
from Don't You Fake It (2006)
Boys Like Girls	Love Drunk
from Love Drunk (Bonus Track Version) (2009)
The Dead Weather	I Cut Like a Buffalo
from Horehound (2009)
Flyleaf	All Around Me
from Flyleaf (2007)
The Used	Blood On My Hands
from Artwork (Bonus Track Version) (2009)
Keane	Is It Any Wonder?
from Under the Iron Sea (2006)
311	Love Song
from Greatest Hits '93-'03 (2004)
Serj Tankian	Empty Walls
from Elect the Dead (2007)
Flobots	Handlebars
from Fight With Tools (2008)
Atreyu	Falling Down
from Lead Sails Paper Anchor (2007)
Hockey	Too Fake
from Too Fake - Single (2009)
Slightly Stoopid	2am
from Chronchitis (2007)
Guster	Satellite
from Ganging Up On the Sun (2006)
Saliva	Always
from Back into Your System (2002)
Dropkick Murphys	I'm Shipping Up to Boston
from The Departed (Music from the Motion Picture) (2006)
The Fratellis	Flathead
from Costello Music (Bonus Track Version) (2007)
Arctic Monkeys	I Bet You Look Good On the Dancefloor
from Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not (2006)
Ludo	Love Me Dead
from You're Awful, I Love You (Bonus Track Version) (2009)
Unwritten Law	Seein' Red
from Elva (2002)
Hot Hot Heat	Bandages
from Make Up the Breakdown (2002)
Louis XIV	Finding Out True Love Is Blind
from The Best Little Secrets Are Kept (2005)
New Found Glory	My Friends Over You
from Sticks and Stones (2004)
Cavo	Champagne
from Bright Nights * Dark Days (2009)
The Raconteurs	Steady As She Goes
from Broken Boy Soldiers (2006)

Comment:

Nothing against the two other tiers in our ’00s Alternative Rock 2 Essentials, but Deep Cuts is where things get really interesting. For starters, we’ve got the two groups with whom Jack White cheats on the White Stripes — the Dead Weather and The Raconteurs, as heard, respectively, in the savage, organ-grinding strut of “I Cut Like a Buffalo” and the piston-propelled power pop of “Steady As She Goes.” And then there’s the sputtering drums of “I Bet You Look Good On the Dancefloor,” a sun-baked cover of the Cure (“Love Song”), and the dizzying solo debut of Serj Tankian (“Empty Walls,” which easily lives up to his schizophrenic songwriting in System of a Down).

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