Spoon is, as you already know, amazing. Britt Daniel is my favorite vocalist in rock music right now. It's like he can do that thing the singer from Portishead used to do, where she flipped between two voices and you felt like she had a split personality, except that he does it with four or five voices.

I don't know if I listened to Springsteen - like, at all - until about 2003, when we were living in New Jersey

That's how it works, right? Esther is still creeped out by the moment at my step-brother's wedding reception when the DJ put on "Glory Days" and everyone--everyone--started singing along, and even hit the "...Woo!..." right on beat.

I can't bring myself to like the Killers, but again I blame Rock Band for that. If you spend enough time chugging through the bass line of "When You Were Young," you'll come to find that song the most boring thing in the world.