The Kills

The Kills have learned the secret recipe for making ultimate hipster jams: Mix together snotty punk-funk and electroclash drum machinery and smear it all over massive guitar rock a la the White Stripes. As with previous albums, Midnight Boom, the duo's third, grooves with a swagger courtesy of cofounder Alison "VV" Mosshart. A super-cute Floridian, she brings a southern-fried attitude (think Jennifer Herrema of Royal Trux) to a kind of dance-rock that's typically dominated by Brits.