Artist	Song
The White Stripes	Fell In Love With a Girl
from White Blood Cells (2002)
The Strokes	Last Nite
from Is This It (2001)
The Von Bondies	C'mon C'mon
from Pawn Shoppe Heart (2004)
The Vines	Get Free
from Highly Evolved (2002)
The Dirtbombs	I Can't Stop Thinking About It
from Horndog Fest (1998)
The Mooney Suzuki	99%
from Have Mercy (2007)
Thee Headcoats	Comanche
from Elementary Headcoats (1996)
The Hentchmen with Jack White	Some Other Guy
from Hentch-Forth.Five (2007)
The Murder City Devils	Boom Swagger Boom
from The Murder City Devils (1997)
The Hellacopters	I'm In the Band
from Rock & Roll Is Dead (2007)
Foxboro Hottubs	The Pedestrian
from Stop Drop and Roll!!! (2008)
The Go	You Go Bangin' On
from Howl On the Haunted Beat You Ride (2007)
The Makers	A Better Way Down
from Rock Star God (2000)
The Black Keys	Have Love Will Travel
from Thickfreakness (2003)
The Sights	Circus
from Wedding Crashers (Music from and Inspired By the Film) (2005)
Boss Martians	Hey Hey Yeah Yeah
from Hey Hey Yeah Yeah - Single (2008)
The Delta 72	Are You Ready?
from 000 (2000)
The Parlor Mob	Everything You're Breathing For
from And You Were a Crow (2008)
Outrageous Cherry	Girl You Have Magic Inside You
from Supernatural Equinox (2003)
The Flaming Sideburns	Street survivor
from Hallelujah rock'n'rollah (2001)

Comment:

Rough as day-old stubble and tougher than a two-buck Vegas steak, garage rock's cropped up in pop's consciousness every decade or two since the mid-'60s, as generation after generation rediscovers its raw-boned, stripped-down soul. Originally championed by White Stripes frontman Jack White, the Von Bondies teamed with ex-Talking Head Jerry Harrison for [i]Pawn Shoppe Heart[/i]'s "C'mon C'mon," exploding like a string of M-80s tied to a two-and-a-quarter-minute fuse. Lead singer Howlin' Pelle Almqvist of Sweden's the Hives shreds his pipes over a blues-bustin' Stones-y riff in the retrolicious rocker "Hate to Say I Told You So," from their major-label breakthrough, [i]Veni Vidi Vicious[/i]. And, sure, the porterhouse steak of a hook from Aussie outfit Jet's iPod commercial classic, "Are You Gonna Be My Girl," sounds [i]just the teensiest bit[/i] like the throbbing core of garage-punk god Iggy Pop's "Lust For Life" . . . but it just might be, in all its emulation, the purest throwback to old-school garage-rock goodness you could ever hope for. From the Strokes and the Vines to Thee Headcoats, we've got every fuzzed-up power chord, beaten-up tom-tom, and blown-out speaker stack from the bands that rescued garage rock from the garbage heap . . . [i]again[/i].

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