Then definitely go for it. You might still be able to buy it from Pledge Music (that's how I got it)

Wow! Finally someone who didn't give up on them after Frances The Mute!

Linkin Park actually. Though I've come to appreciate them a little after the fact. Paramore were quite good around the Riot! era, before it became 'Haley Williams & The Hired Help'.

Yeah, I remember, but that was 2005, wasn't it?

Now, see, those are (mostly) actual ROCK bands.

A thousand times over.

Yeah, but you'd figure the age of the Internet would enable people to rise above old prejudices :-/

Yeah, it's as if The Dissolve reviewed only blockbusters and arthouse, and ignored everything in between.

I don't think it was a case of these bands being soon influential; more like the US rock scene simply hasn't moved on from this sound over the last decade.

I only own Tin Drum but it's a great album.

Me too! Can I join your Mars Volta club!
'Arcarsenal' is also my favourite!
Have you heard 'Antemasque', their new band? I really like it. It's like a whole album of 'Wax Simulacra'-style tracks.

At The Drive-In's demise gave us The Mars Volta, for which I'm forever massively grateful, and just recently Antemasque. Omar and Cedric haven't stopped releasing great new music at all.

yeah, I know. But even the Guardian reviewed Hand. Cannot. Erase! Surely The AV Club should be ahead of them.

You make a compelling argument.

Eh, there are dozens of great garage, blues, prog, AOR and roots rock bands that for whatever reason don't get coverage on the US music internet.

I bought and listened to Merriweather Post Pavillion, after it topped numerous 2009 polls, and THAT was when I finally realised that I was an old man who won't ever again understand the contemporary music scene.

Why is almost every significant UK band of the 00s rejected in a knee-jerk fashion by US music writers?
Bloc Party, Libertines, Arctic Monkeys & Biffy Clyro were/are not only more 'rock' than most of these bands, but their best songs were miles catchier too.

Arctic Monkeys were a better ROCK band than both them and Arcade Fire (who I love)

I always thought the short-lived 'freak folk' scene of the mid-00 (Devendra Barnhart, Joanna Newsom, and the like) was a cool lo-fi response to slick pop-rock, but it didn't go anywhere.

The reluctance of this site to give any attention to the booming prog rock scene of the 00s, which is still going strong today, is downright infuriating.
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