Televise

Post-My Bloody Valentine makeout music influenced by Neil Young and Nick Cave. Signature lyrics: "Something's gotten hold of my tongue / See what you've done? / I would give anything / Just to see it happen to you," from "Strangler." "Right Place, Wrong Sound: In 1995, Aurelio Valle and two friends from Dallas, Wayne Magruder and Sean Donovan, moved to New York with high hopes: "We thought the kind of dark music we were playing then would be accepted here," Valle says. "But everyone was playing garage." So the three shifted gears and formed CALLA. The band's debut took cues from Philip Glass and the Jesus and Mary Chain, but CALLA has since abandoned its inaccessible sound and, with its third album, Televise, is trying to move away from being "something you'd listen to at 3 a.m." --New York Magazine