The Vines

Arriving on the hipster radar around the same time as the similarly named but better-dressed Swedish retro-rockers the Hives, these Aussie grunge babies were adopted by 2002's "rock-is-back," who found enough protopunk swagger and '60s-style songcraft to anoint their processed Nirvana dirges as part of the garage revolution.

Pretty and petulant frontman Craig Nicholls seems to have come out...