Another example of rollicking fun being back in rock and roll, the Vines deserve more credit than just being shovelled into the same pit as the Strokes, White Stripes or Hives.

Using a lot of ear-pleasing distortion, the Aussie band gets in bed with everything from Brit pop to fuzzy road music for a trip to Antares VII, (see the ferocious Get Free, kind of a Beatles meets Queens of the Stone Age).

The bonus the Vines have going for them above the new rock bands is a lack of that 9,000% self-consciousness stink. They're just playing happy music, having fun.

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