Ted Leo and the Pharmacists (sometimes written Ted Leo/Pharmacists, Ted Leo + Pharmacists, or TL/Rx) are an American rock band formed in 1999 in Washington, D.C. and currently recording for Touch and Go Records. They have released five full-length studio albums and have toured internationally. Though the group's lineup has fluctuated throughout their career, singer/guitarist Ted Leo has remained the band's main songwriter, creative force, and only constant member. The group's music combines elements of punk rock, indie rock, traditional rock, and occasionally folk music and dub reggae. Their most recent album, Living With the Living, was released in March 2007.

Those who've come to expect the very best from Chemical Brothers videos won't be disappointed by "Do It Again". Tom Rowlands and Ed Simons are responsible for some of the most unforgettable clips of the video era.The electro duo have brought in the globetrotting Michael Haussman - recent winner of MTV's Best Video award for his work on Justin Timberlake's Euro-stylish "Sexyback" - for an exercise in cultural cross-pollination of the funkiest kind.

In "Do It Again". Haussman transports viewers to the same remote Moroccan village shown in the movie Babel. There, a pair of young brothers struggle to escape barbaric dentistry, and flee to the sanctuary of the desert. After the younger brother makes the older one promise that he won't allow the dentist to take his tooth, something falls from the sky. It's not a bomb - at least not literally. Instead, it's a cassette tape with "Do It Again" on it (the song title and the words "Chemical Brothers" are scrawled in Arabic on the plastic). The brothers find a boombox, slip the tape in, and their world is instantly transformed. Everywhere they go, the people they meet are compelled to move to the music: old shopkeepers, devout worshippers, and police officers alike drop their reserve and find themselves getting down. The brothers seize control of a bus and ride it to the nearest sizable town, overcoming all opposition through the power of groove. Once they get there, the heist is easy: employees at the bank happily open the vaults and hand over the money, all to the rhythm of "Do It Again". The dusty old village setting throws the struggle between vibrant youth and moribund traditionalism into sharp relief, but it's a battle that the Chemical Brothers have been fighting - and winning - all over the globe

Without sacrificing an ounce of energy or urgency, David Reid and The Contrast have matured. Every Contrast recording strongly indicates how powerful a force this quartet is in concert, and "My Peace Of Mind" is no exception. A performance clip is really the only proper match for a song that sounds so live, and The Contrast have complied with some compelling footage of the group in action. But this is no dull representation of a Contrast show; instead, the band plays with color and light, and warps the space around them as they play. Shots are saturated with monochromatic illumination - but then a different hue will flash across the flame, or the image of a bandmember will warp or smear. There's a feeling of destabilization that permeates the clip - a sense of psychological deterioration, peril, and the stealthy approach of madness. Masks, fireworks pinwheels, bandages, old stock footage of airplanes, dust clouds and blur effects: they all serve to literalize Reid's mental state, and make the encroaching darkness palpable for the audience.

Lately, The Dollyrots and their music have been turning up everywhere. The band has shared stages with the like-minded Muffs and Soviettes, they're currently touring the nation, and they'll be hooking up with the Warped Tour in July. Dollyrots songs have been used on CSI:NY, and frontwoman Kelly Ogden appeared in an episode of the program as the bassist of a fictitious rock group (and even got to be "murdered" on network TV by a bandmate! How punk is that?) The exuberant "Watch Me Go (Kissed Me, Killed Me)" is set to be featured on The Simple Life; "This Cruch" received airtime on The Style Network and lead single "Because I'm Awesome" on Ugly Betty. Sirius Radio deejay and rock 'n' roll hero Little Steven named "Because I'm Awesome" the "coolest song in the world".

The track offers some ironic self-affirmation. It's all done with a wink and put-on pout, and it's as much a critique of the pomp and hyperbole of the music industry as it is a commentary on culture of self-promotion in Los Angeles. For the video, they've also found the perfect metaphor: the tryouts of American Idol. The clip finds the band at the filming of a hypothetical reality show called Because I'm Awesome, and the camera scans the long lines of disaffected performers waiting to strut their stuff. The judges are here, too, leaning back in their padded chairs, pointing pens at the would-be rock stars, and critiquing the performances with a diagnostic eye and a sense of entitlement. The three Dollyrots stand before the logo in different guises: a California girl, a cowboy, a rapper in a hoodie, a glamour queen in a black dress, an anarchic cheerleader. Ogden even puts on a bunny suit with a gas mask and shoves the other contestants. The Dollyrots won't play by the rules; they're storming the gates of the fame industry on their own terms, and according to their own offbeat logic.