White Light Riot's briskly-paced debut LP, Atomism, mixes gritty rock textures with elements of bright, sunshine pop.

NPR: White Light Riot: 'Charlatan'

These epic processes melted and reprocessed vast amounts of rock and concentrated chemical elements in new ways.

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Elements of post rock, garage and synth-pop round out their music which relies heavily on narrative songwriting.

NPR: These United States: 'First Sight'

But few filmmakers before or since have been able to consistently orchestrate such maddening elements into a metal rock flow.

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It's a trippy collection of songs with elements of '60s folk rock.

NPR: King of Prussia: 'Misadventures of the Campaign Kids'

Decades before hip-hop-style cut and paste became the norm, this band was smashing together elements of samba and psychedelic rock into totally delightful collage.

NPR: Os Mutantes (Finally) Make American Debut

With each verse, XXXchange tosses in more electronic elements as the track escalates into electro-rock cacophony.

NPR: Kele: From Bloc Party To The Dance Floor

Philadelphia's The Asteroid No. 4 takes dreamy shoegazer pop and mixes in elements of '60s psychedelia and latter-day space rock to create a folk-rock sound that falls somewhere between The Byrds and The Stone Roses.

NPR: The Asteroid No. 4: 'Let It Go'

Animal Collective's latest CD, on the Domino label, is the appropriately named Strawberry Jam: a sticky-sweet mixture of mashed-up musical elements, from noise pop and fringe folk to ambient drones and psychedelia, with crunchy seeds of noise rock.

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