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With yet another new band to show off, John "Speedo" Reis returns with The Night Marchers, blending his post-hardcore, punk and rock'n'roll sides together into a single package.

Leave the blatant self-promotion that gets in the way of the music to other bands. Canada's The Constantines are winning fans over the old-fashioned way: One song at a time.

Denver's Slim Cessna's Auto Club revives its Southern Gothic roots to help bring faith for the faithless, or at least scare you into religion.

The teen-punk buck stops here: New Jersey's The Gaslight Anthem dig into rock'n'roll roots to deliver a mature album that's rife with classic punk energy and songwriting.

With a professed love of nature, a budding distaste for business as usual in the industry and a chaotic live show to match it, British Sea Power is Britain's reigning Wild Bunch.